Reflected

Posted on June 16, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Image, Layout app, Multiplied, Peeling paint, Photo, Spode, Stoke, ThoughtLeave a comment

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Looking in and looking out, mirrored sky shining. The window frames flaking and peeling. Put through a mirroring filter and you find a floating tower. Could it be magic. What is art? Why is a photo? Can an image be trickery in a friendly way? Must it be cryptic.

See the world through an ant or a bees eye. See the world through the eye of a whale or a satellite.

Our vision is an average humans vision. At a cartain height, with colour vision like primates have. We don’t have slits in our pupils, or black and white vision. We don’t use echo location.

Photos are interesting to play with.

This was I

Posted on June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Books, Canal, Canvas, Cat, Drawing, I, Illustration, Me, Painting, Poem, Poetry, Pottery, Radiography, Spode6 Comments

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Where I live,

Who I am,

What I do,

How I think,

Where I work,

My companion,

What I trained as,

My books,

My life,

My I.

My me!

In happier times

Posted on May 23, 2020May 23, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, happy times, Memories, Photo, Spode, Spode studio, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, TimeLeave a comment

I haven’t been to my studio for months , I’m keeping away from people as much as I can. That said, it was lovely to come across this photo. I was at tge studio at Spode. It must have been cold because I was wearing a hat. I don’t know where the jumper went to…..

It is clear I was happy in the photo, something had made me chuckle. Someday things will get better. Some of the paintings have been sold, but I can’t do craft fairs or exhibitions at the moment so I haven’t been replacing them. Maybe I will have a go again soon. I have got a course that I’m taking which starts in June. Hopefully that will get me going again.

Where have you been?

Posted on February 16, 2020February 16, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Exploring, Ghost story, Horror, Life, Mystery, Pottery, Short story, Spode, Time, Very short story, WarehouseLeave a comment

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Through the door into the dark shadows, light shining through dusty windows, shafts of sunlight with dust motes dancing through the beams. We were exploring, looking at the racks of plaster molds, stacked high on racks, above head height. Hundreds of them, all shapes and sizes. For slip casting pottery.

In the back of the store room something stirred. A figure unfolding, grey with dust. Semi transparent, like a ghost? We saw it as it lurched to its feet and grasped at the racks of saggars. It spoke. ‘you don’t belong here’ it shouted ‘get out’, and we did! We turned tail and ran, through the door, through the yard and away. We won’t be going back there again!

One of those days.

Posted on January 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Campbell Place, Car, Design, Garage, Grey day, January, Life, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, Stoke-upon-Trent, Thinking, Time, Trying to sell artLeave a comment

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Grey and depressing, icy cold, big droplets of rain. Disappointing as well, I keep trying to get the car mended (someone broke my wing mirror, the glass is cracked, and someone must have reversed into my nearside wing, it’s all scraped and dented. But I rang up, and the mechanic, who is trying to find the right mirror rang in sick this morning. I will have to try again tomorrow. Then I collected some paintings from my studio to try and get into a local craft centre. But the owner has been inundated with local artists. He is interested in more work but needs to sell some art first. He has had people in but one comment he got was “is it really That much?” for one if the pieces in there. It’s the usual thing in this area, people don’t have money, or if they do they don’t want to spend it. It’s depressing (oh I’ve already said that)……

Willow pattern

Posted on January 28, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blue and white, Colour, Design, Life, Painting, Spode, Still life, Willow patternLeave a comment

Images of a painting I did of the Willow pattern ceramic design a couple of years ago. The pattern is based on a few images that I saw online and copied, so it’s sort of a generic design. Many pottery companies had their own specific design. There are variations in the positioning of figures, placement of temples and types of vegetation. This was the British attempt to copy Chinese designs.

9 for 2019

Posted on January 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #9for2019, 2019, 2019 roundup, 9 for 2019, Acrylic on canvas, Art, Artist, Clay, Easter island head, Life, Paint, Painting, Photo, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

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9 of my favourite images from 2019.

From top left to bottom right…

Dramatic mirrored image of a North Wales beach.

Lion I painted for the local lions charity.

Mural in a downstairs cloakroom. I can still climb!

Easter Island clay head I made at Etruria Artists.

My art stall at a craft fair.

The stray cat that we are looking after who needs rehoming.

Falcon works, two images of the pottery I painted last autumn.

Holding my green man painting and with my vase painting during my exhibition at Spode.

Finally, painting of a window with peeling paint, taken from a photo I took at Spode.

Waves of people

Posted on November 24, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Browsing, Fun, Life, Market@48, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

People are like the sea, they come in waves. Five minutes ago the tide was out. No one here. The next the tide is in and people drift past like a shoal of fish. Different shapes and sizes, like around a coral reef, browsing at the stalls and being caught in the tenticles of sea urchins, or feeding from the little pottery stall. ( mixed metaphors or what?) some people drift past my stall, others stop to browse. Occasionally people buy… Its all good, as they say….

Don’t undersell?

Posted on November 24, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Illustration, Life, Market@48, Potbank Hotel, Sketching, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, Urban sketching6 Comments

I’m a bad person! I try and sell things at a reasonable price, but then I like being nice to people and I often haggle myself down on prices! It’s like I’m at a car boot not a craft fair. Help! But I can’t employ someone. Got to do it for myself…

I think everyone should have the opportunity to have art if they want it, and forget that people have to make a living out of it. I will not be winning business woman of the year…

While I was stall sitting I did a quick sketch of people around a stall across the way from me. There are some lovely things for sale. On the whole I’m enjoying myself.

Market@48 today

Posted on November 24, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Display, Eleanora street, Life, Market stall, Market@48, Painting, Potbank Hotel, Ready to start, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

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Stall set out, three minutes till opening, then we will see what happens. I’ve got more under the table than on it. We are in a hotel, so we’ve got departing guests wandering past. We’ll better go!

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