Nostalgia

Posted on December 24, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Clarice Cliff, Memory, Mural, Nostalgia, Painting, Pottery, Star Trek, Thinking, TV shows2 Comments

A Clarice Cliff pottery pattern that I painted as a mural in the Leopard Hotel in Burslem, Stoke on Trent. The design is called umbrellas. It’s one I would love to own.

Nostalgia is that warm feeling you get when you see or remember old or ancient images or things. I haven’t looked up the actual definition. But things like this, or even old TV shows like The original series of Star Trek, give me a warm fuzzy feeling. I know somehow I’m safe, like I have gone back in time, as a memory or a thing I learned about in the past.

I get the same thing with the James Stewart film It’s a wonderful life. I think nostalgia and being nostalgic must be good and calming for the mind. The equivalent of a mental sigh.

My Emma Bailey ceramics cat

Posted on October 12, 2020 Posted in CatTagged Cat, Ceramic, Clarice Cliff, Decorated, Emma Bailey Ceramics, Life, Middleport, Middleport pottery, Ornaments, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-TrentLeave a comment

It’s a lovely little cat with yellow and black decoration. It’s only small, about 7 inches tall. He’s smart and adds to my ornaments on the mantlepiece. Emma does larger cats and lots of other objects. The ceramics have designs that are reminiscent of Clarice Cliff pottery from the 1930’s.

Emma Bailey ceramics is based at Middleport pottery in Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Check opening times as the pottery is open at the moment.

Clarice Cliff mural

Posted on August 22, 2020August 22, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art deco, Burslem, Ceramics, Clarice Cliff, Design, Leopard closed, Life, Mural, My murals, Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire, The Leopard Hotel, Umbrella designLeave a comment

This the mural I painted at the Leopard of Clarice Cliffs Umbrella design. It is one of several murals I did. They were painted directly onto the walls, but as the original room had several large squares and oblong of flock wallpaper surrounded by wooden framing, the owners stripped the flock paper and covered the patches with lining paper. I then painted on that. For some reason people think the pictures are painted on canvas. They will get a shock if they try and take them down. They would have to remove a layer of plaster probably too…!