The sin eaters
Doorways were a feature of this space. Caught in a corridor, I stood before the one for the studio and glanced at another; the guest room. Who are the guests of the artist when he is away from home; living in this flat away for the anchor and the source? Away from the summer lawns, replacing them with something, someone, people that held him hostage for weeks
Hey Hey We were the Monkees and I was a Believer
I became her foot soldier. She taught me the facts of life on the way to school. She got it a bit wrong but we muddled through and I let her take the credit.
"Immaculate conceptualism and a Ruskin ***k"
if you show people how contemporary design WORKS and how it all works TOGETHER then not only do you sell more pottery but you sell for others, more furniture, more paintings, more good wallpaper, more good glass.
Heard the one about the gynaecologist and the artist?
Once I was a young artist raised in the sixties and living the seventies. To the art school came the man raised in the twenties and living the Reformation
Milton Head Pottery, Geoparks and the Guzzledown Connection
‘the peace and serenity of this little town’. This, he said, was essential for him to later become a success as a writer.
Suffer little children for art
As a child I was approached at a Puffin Book Club event with friends, and we were groomed long distance, by the children’s author William Mayne…
Still being ridiculous in the 21st century
Surrealism allowed women to uniquely express their experiences; a woman could have been tried by a male judge and burnt as a witch for such practices in the eighteenth century.
Can a male critic get the perspective of a female Surrealist?
You don’t like my painting
Art is a language and we are all capable of embracing and learning each other’s language while still knowing what we like.
A Pome for Rebecca
The occasional art book, signed with love and metaphorically flung at my head.
The Pottery
MILTON HEAD POTTERY
Milton Head Pottery Co. Ltd. 1950-1959 – The Old Pound House, Milton Street, Brixham.
Visiting Artists: in the pub
In the corner the artist whittling his sharp pencil, scribbling your portrait, selling his wares in order to catch a sentence or a shadow for a sketch
Visiting Artists: The Potter's Wheel of Fortune
….being given something lovely, even if it was a second.
Visiting Artists or read all about it
Off he wanders again, sharpening his own point no doubt…
Visiting Artists Come in Many Guises
The child already acts as the telephonist; diverting calls; small master of the procrastinating deadline; the mysterious unavailability of the artist to talk today; he is talking bills, school fees, Welsh gossip, Senior Service supplies, off licence invoices; he’s not at home for talking artists today; call again please…….
Visiting Artists in a Mini
One summer in the early sixties, three children travelled approximately 1,400 miles in the back of a mini to visit an artist…
Visiting Artists - Supplies
The younger artist knew the king of art mediums is oil. With linseed oil, turps, scratchy brushes and canvas, this was the alchemy needed to create a "work of art"….
Visiting Artists
Yet something always rubbed off, a feeling that being an artist was a bit mysterious and being children of artists a bit of a mystery…..