HAPPY CLIENT!

 A bespoke dinner service made especially for a client who collected it today...white on cloudy white with touches of gold lustre. Her response : 'The plates and bowls are glorious and serenely beautiful treasures. Thank you!'

...What a pleasure!

STILL LIFE WITH LEMONS

Alchemists’ work, turning tin and arsenic and vegetable juices into golden fruit painted with a kind of showy complication and variety that suggests there must have been competition among the painters of lemons.

Above is a quote from Mark Doty’s lovely little book, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, which is both an ode to the still life form and a meditation on ordinary objects and time.

So in the spirit of 17th Century Dutch painters, here is an image of my actual dish holding real lemons, and indeed a homage to the still life form and inviting contemplative meditation on the ordinary life.  

AN APPLE A DAY...

And on with the quietness...alongside the orders I am playing with spontaneous forms and enjoying the still life quality enhanced by the accompaniment of apples. (These came out of the kiln early this week.)

AFFIRMATIVE WHITE

I am usually drawn to using bright colours, but a quiet side of me - an antidote - comes up every now and then, and increasingly more often these days. The above items are part of a bespoke dinner service for a client. I call this my 'white-on'white' ware, in fact it is white matte texture combined with white shiny glaze all covering a charcoal clay which gives the white some depth. All packed up and shipped off today!