Happy new year everyone, hope you all had the festive period you hoped for, I managed some very quality time with the family, but only a couple of days due to the bill paying gig. But a very lovely gathering with Mum in house as my father in law passed a couple of weeks ago, an up and down time, but with everyone else gathering around her I hope we gave her a loving Christmas with all the grandkids around her and managed to distract her from reality a bit.
Anyway, this is going to be a pottery tale and journey, so how’s the mud game going?
Since 2020 when this path began, not many days have gone by when I haven’t processed a pot or 50 through my hands. What between, wedging, making, failing, making again, drying, trimming, fettling, bisque firing, glaze making, glaze applying, bottom cleaning (the pots that is) glaze firing, sanding, washing, packing, posting…. Not to mention kiln maintenance, design, slab building, coiling (don’t do much of this) carving, painting (don’t do much of this either, I dip my glazes). There is always something to be getting on with.
Over the last 4 years it’s a great craft to humble you but to also very visibly show your path of improvement, from the first couple of weeks watching YouTube videos trying to get a grasp of centring the clay, to milestones of centering a kilo, 5 kilos, 10 kilos (I’ve yet to do more than that), to repeated cylinders and cutting them in half to check the wall thickness, pot after pot, minute improvement after minute improvement I am happy with where I am, a long way from where I want to be, but happy where I am.
Anyhoo, more to come, currently working my first wholesale order of the year for an amazing couple of Tapas Bars in Edinburgh who I’ll be bigging up in coming posts as I progress through their order in anticipation of seeing their wonderful food atop my plates. Watch this space.
Back soon, got some plates to trim and a kiln to fire up…….
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