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9 March 2010

Do come to see my work at Affordable Art Fair in Battersea Park, London. I shall be showing with Shirley Crowther Contemporary Art stand K3. The times and dates are:

Thursday 11-Sunday 14 March 2010
Drinks reception Thursday 5:30-9:30pm (call me for tickets)
11-6pm daily

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16 February 2010

If you want to see what I look like, then the Contemporary Craft Fair have a video of the 2009 Fair in which I appear - it's about 3 minutes in to the 5 minute clip, I'm the one with glasses and a black cardigan on.

Clip of 2009 Craft Fair

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13 December 2009

Many thanks to all who came to the Open Studio, despite the torrential rain! We really appreciate the effort, and hope you enjoyed the parkin and banana cake. Here's some of the work that was on show:

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I've been making a lot of jugs - small and large - which seemed very popular. I'm also making 'stacks' - a jug, inside a mug, inside a bowl, inside a dish - inspired by the old 'solitaire' breakfast sets made in Stoke in the nineteenth century.

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01 November 2009

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It seems a long time to Christmas but I know many of you like to get ready early! We will be having a Christmas Open Studio in Tulse Hill on the first weekend in December.

11-5 Saturday 5th December 2009
11-5 Sunday 6th December 2009

Hannah James and Barry Stedman have joined the studio since last Christmas and will also be showing work.

I will also have work at the Devon Guild of Craftsmen's Christmas show All Wrapped Up , 21st November - 3 Jan 2010 and at the Cambridge Contemporary Art gallery 's Christmas show, from 14 November to 24th December 2009.

21 September 2009

I am extremely pleased to be included in a great show of work at Shirley Crowther Art. The show starts in Ditchling, in a fantastic building where Frank Brangwyn lived and worked. Huge, light rooms hide behind a secret ivy street front..

We are also part of Lambeth Open - a new initiative - where artists across the borough are opening their studios. We will be open 11-6pm on Sat 3rd and Sun 4th October.
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18 July 2009

It's been a while since I updated the website - the reason is shown in the image below... We have just finished installing a huge installation for Edmund de Waal: pots on a red shelf high in the dome above the entrance hall of the Victoria and Albert Museum, in the new Ceramics Galleries.
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Installation of porcelain at the Victoria and Albert Museum

9 June 2009

I had a great time at the Bovey Tracey Contemporary Craft Fair - The Devon Guild of Craftsmen were really fabulous. We had a month's worth of rain on the Saturday, but spirits were not really dampened at all. I camped by a little stream a stone's throw from the Fair, with a hot water bottle filled at the cafe at the Guild!

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20 May 2009

The CUP exhibition at Bovey Tracey has started. I've made a big conglomerate - a heap - of cups for them, as though excavated from the wreck of a china clipper ship... Luckily it also got there in one piece! It's a great exhibition, with huge felt pictures of cups - wonderful Elspeth Owen cups - lots to look at and think about.
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11 May 2009

Dulwich Festival 'Artists At Home' was very enjoyable - it was great to meet other local artists as well as inviting people in the local community into the studio.
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02 April 2009

Coast magazine has included some of my work in its April issue - both volcanic bowls and some of the sea-change series.
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10 January 2009

We are going to be part of 'Artists At Home' during the Dulwich Festival The studio will be open on the 9th and 10th May 2009, from 11-5pm. The Festival publish a booklet with details of all the places open, so let me know if you want one and I shall send it on once it is published!
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23 December 2008

image I have been accepted for the exhibition CUP at the Devon Guild of Craftsmen's new exhibition space in Bovey Tracey. The exhibition will have work from established and new makers, exploring this theme. I am planning to make some work inspired by my 'heaps' in the sea-change series. I'm not sure how cup-like the vessels need to be so I hope to use the exhibition as a chance to explore a number of new ideas.
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12 December 2008

I had an Open Studio on the 9th December 2008 as part of the Parade Mews Open Studios. Many thanks to all who came. We drank Pimm's Winter Warmer and ate fruit cake as an early Christmas celebration.
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22 November 2008

Pictures of my work appeared in three magazines in the run up to the Brighton Craft Fair - November Homes and Gardens, BBC Homes and Antiques, and Coast magazine.
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