tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56882811897739358192024-02-21T01:16:12.943-08:00Purely PotsExploring the endless possibilities in ceramic design.....Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201800715071574590noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5688281189773935819.post-53547933232993022232012-04-29T11:18:00.002-07:002012-04-29T11:18:29.809-07:00Meet Muriel!!!<br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Great excitement – I did it – got a
Maggie (Thompson) Mobile!! A Citroen Romahome – aged 21years – not quite all in
working order but fixable. In really good nick inside – barring not being able
to work fridge and cooker and electric points!! Engine runs well (touch wood)
said to do 45-50 to the gallon, can go up to 70 without exploding or imploding
but prefers 50-60mph.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I picked her up on the 11<sup>th</sup> July
and had her in the garage by the afternoon as she has a driver side window that
keels over like a drunk when opened, a petrol cap that does not lock relying
instead on luck to keep the diesel in the tank and a windscreen washing system
that makes noise but little else. NB none of these additional features were in
the Ebay advert. I think I was a bit done over but she was remarkably well
priced and turned her puppy / orphan eyes on me and I couldn’t leave her behind
to suffer possible further neglect!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The garage were happy to service her and
generally check the ‘found’ faults and try to find the unfound…… including the
wrong light-bulb, both front lights independently mobile and in need of
replacement – at some time – not possible to mend errant window as parts no
longer made – only solution replacement door! and dire warnings of imminent
spontaneous combustion of engine if the timer belt had not been replaced. The
petro cap had to be a ‘special order’ which can’t be picked up until the
weekend. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maiden voyage began 19<sup>th</sup> July
traveling to York via Sunderland then off to Oxford Art in Action at Waterperry
Gardens on 20<sup>th</sup>.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sent pictures of Muriel to my kids and
Bella (graphic designer) sent them to colleague and college /flat mate, Nicky,
who has created the GI Jan Mobile! I think I will stick with Muriel as befits
my aspiration to be calm and sedate (OK I only said it was aspiration!! We can
all dream….)</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 lovely nights, sleeping in my little Muriel
bed, at Oxford Art in Action followed by journey back to Newcastle for Becky
Nicklin’s wedding on a beautiful hot day terminating (literally!!) after an
hour in a traffic jam with Muriel’s engine blowing up!!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Returned to Newcastle, thanks to the RAC,
to a garage that quoted £1,500 to £2,000 – nearly as much as poor Muriel cost
me! Thankfully rescued by the very lovely Peter who resuscitated her for about
£500!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next voyage - France – managed over 8oo miles and
a very pleasant night near Rouen – when, after half an hour in a hot traffic
jam, Muriel died again!! </span></span><br />
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the bonnet and inhaled deeply and shrugged their gallic shoulders and shook their Gitane smoking heads,
as did the guy who picked Muriel up – diagnosis of dead engine predictions of 2
– 3000€ to repair. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks to RAC we were taxied for a night (back northwards
90km!!) as there were no hire cars available (it was black Saturday – everyone
in France was on the road!) to a very nice hotel thanks to RAC – next day we
were given a hire car for the whole of our holiday and Muriel was transported
back – thanks to RAC (again!!!) – a few weeks later. The French prognosis was
considered a little inaccurate by the very lovely Peter who tended towards a
poorly radiator and suddenly Muriel – a rather feline Citroen (in terms of
number of lives) – was revived! </span></span></div>
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younger model that hasn’t fared quite as well and – with luck it will be
Scotland for the Scone Castle Show.....</span></span></div>Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201800715071574590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5688281189773935819.post-52426439826068472982012-04-19T00:48:00.003-07:002012-04-21T23:27:07.034-07:00Garden a la Med en Lodeve.........<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201800715071574590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5688281189773935819.post-29350863686296838262012-04-19T00:42:00.000-07:002012-04-19T00:42:04.836-07:00Doesn't time fly......<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So much happened - now approaching final hand-in - 5 weeks to go and I have decided not to do the 2 years to full degree but rather get on with it! So much to do in ceramics and in exploration of the world!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For today I'm off to the gym as part of the get fit campaign to do the Great North Run in September - and of I can do that without causing major harm - maybe the Berlin marathon.....</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201800715071574590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5688281189773935819.post-66737479567540362172011-07-24T17:10:00.000-07:002011-07-24T17:10:56.460-07:00Cleaning kilns!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> I spent two interesting days at Jim Malone's pottery in North Cumbria cleaning his two chamber kiln in preparation for firing. You can find out more at Jim's site at http://www.jimmalonepottery.co.uk/kiln.htm.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="unnamed2" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 12pt;">Info taken from Site:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="unnamed2" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 12pt;">My kiln is an Oriental climbing kiln of two<br />
chambers, This is the fourth I have built,<br />
each kiln I have constructed has been<br />
modified according to my experiences with<br />
the preceding kilns, hopefully retaining the<br />
virtues of the earlier one's whilst eliminating<br />
some of the faults.<br />
My latest kiln is fired using a combination<br />
of oil and wood. The first chamber (around<br />
50 cubic foot) is fired with two oil burners up<br />
to 1000° C at which point I may finish off with<br />
wood or oil (depends on the glazes) on<br />
reaching cone 11 in chamber 1, chamber 2<br />
is around 1000° C from the exhaust heat alone.<br />
Chamber 2 is finished off with wood only.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="unnamed2" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 12pt;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barn at Jim's housing the kiln</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pointing first chamber<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>The first step was to remove, clean and stack the kiln furniture and the next was to clean the loose mortar from the walls. I then had to fill all the deficits and repoint the walls. It was fun - and very hot!!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">How lovely - a lot of hard work but it is a beautiful! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I hope to be able to get to Jim's for the firing and will - of course - blog! </div>Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201800715071574590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5688281189773935819.post-13681423811524471542011-07-24T15:12:00.000-07:002011-07-24T17:08:56.764-07:00Ooooops!! Been AWOL!!!How time does fly so much to blog about so little time to blog it! Where to start!<br />
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Course modules this year started problematic and finished on a bit of a roll!<br />
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Surprisingly my research essay (Module AD210) was pretty well received - I will try to add it as a blog later - tried and couldn't get pics in.<br />
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Sadly, I didn't do as much as I had hoped for the practical but was quite pleased with what I did do and I passed and that is all that is required! The theme was the Male and Female Torso, I wanted to see how minimal a form I could create that would be recognised as male / female - well that's what the aim in the end was - I went through a very long journey to simplify the project to a manageable size.<br />
I started with pieces hand modeled and hollowed.<br />
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I first created a healthy figure and then looked at the effect of deforming the spine<br />
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This started to get a bit complex when assistance came in the guise of Manga - I found a book in a wonderful bookshop in Bowness - OK I was slacking and had a wonderful week there in December with friends. It was freezing but sooooo lovely!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...cloud inversion.</td></tr>
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</tbody></table> I digress ....... Manga.... there was the answer - very simple, basic body shapes from which my final pieces emerged.<br />
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Work placements were great and I will blog on the placement with Jim Robison and Christine Hester-Smith. Helped to build kiln at Ray Pearsons and helped Jim Malone clean up his kiln pre-firing. Adele Davison has a lovely blog on the kiln building with Ray (<a href="http://ambientceramics.blogspot.com/2011/03/salt-of-earth.html">http://ambientceramics.blogspot.com/2011/03/salt-of-earth.html</a>) - I will try to do one to complement hers.<br />
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</b></span></span></div>Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201800715071574590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5688281189773935819.post-12885707596088639032011-04-03T15:28:00.000-07:002011-04-04T09:57:19.141-07:00A bit of a quickie - 10th Annual York Open StudiosI'm not sure I am yet capable of a 'blog quickie' but I'll have a go....<br />
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I am down in York at the home and studio of my friend and ceramic artist Trudy Weir who has opened both to the public with two fellow artists - ceramicist and silver jewellry maker, Ann Decker and printmaker, Rebecca Wright.<br />
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The YOS (www.yorkopenstudios.co.uk) is celebrating it's 10 year by opening this weekend (2,3,4th April) and next (9,10,11th) - quite a burden for the participants and maybe a bit of a risk in these cash strapped times. There are also more artists too (well over 100) showing this year although some are choosing to do one weekend only.<br />
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The preview night on the 2nd was fairly quiet but things busied up on Saturday and today, Sunday, morning has brought out the sunshine and the public!<br />
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Ann and Trudy finished their mixed media degree from York in fine style bit gaining first class honours in 2009. Both mainly concentrate on hand building but Ann does some thrown and altered pieces and has recently started to make silver jewellry. <br />
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</div> Ann's ceramic pieces - coiled and altered pots<br />
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</div>Trudy's work is made from overlaying clays and slips and stretching into slabs and made into sculptural pieces, trompe l'oeil . She works on a regular basis with Ben Arnup who took her on for a week as a student and they developed a mutual addiction! It has proved a useful ceramic collaboration and an even more valued friendship. I have been fortunate enough to have a 'placement' with Trudy which I will blog about later and had a day working with Ben and Trudy in Ben's basement studio - I even got to make a pot! So exciting!<br />
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More recently I met up with Ben and Trudy at the Biscuit Factory in Newcastle when they brought up their work for the Spring collection and attended the open evening which was really well attended and showcased a lot of artists new to the gallery.<br />
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Ben is an amazing ceramicist and a lovely person - check him out at: http://www.benarnup.com<br />
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On a walk around Open studio's I discovered 'micro-concrete ' which makes great outdoor pieces<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Back to Trudy's and Rebecca Wright who makes intaglio prints - her etching are really lovely - her sketch books are amazing - pieces of art in themselves - check her out www.rebeccawright-drawing.blogspot.com and www.Rebeccawright.biz</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'll be back at YOS next week for more </div>Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201800715071574590noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5688281189773935819.post-78404442318459831852011-04-02T14:42:00.000-07:002011-04-02T15:09:10.691-07:00AD207 - Work placement<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"> A truly inspired title but that's what it is - the module I have most eagerly anticipated - an opportunity to learn from those I admire.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">I actually started long before the module dates by becoming an apprentice to Australian Ceramic Artist, John Stroomer. He would, I suspect, call himself a potter but, in my opinion, his throwing and mastery of all things ceramic - especially his crystalline glazing - would be difficult to match and he is, without doubt, an artist.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">John is a great teacher, I have attended 2 courses given by him at Solway Ceramic Centre and spent a month at his factory in Australia throwing, glazing and firing - total bliss... well I did do a lot of F'ing and blinding when the clay wouldn't behave itself - probably a combination of jet lag and heat intolerance - well there must have been some reason! Fortunately, despite my worst efforts, I did improve in my throwing technique and got to do my own firing!</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My name is Jan and I’m a potter…….well a bit of a clay addict with a love for all things ceramic and aspirations to make my own personal contribution to this often undervalued corner of the art world. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I can’t remember the first time I played with clay but potting has been my escape from the challenges of studying, work and family responsibilities since my student days. My Tuesday evening at Ouseburn Pottery with David Pyrkes who runs the studio and teaches at college and my fellow potters was the highlight of the week. Sadly, my making made only very slow progress until, three years ago, opportunity knocked!! There was an opportunity to decrease my work commitments and to begin to study ceramics at Newcastle College. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The rest, as they say, is history! Well not quite I still have a very long way to go, I have not as yet found my niche in ceramics – as one of my fellow students said ‘I reserve the right to be eclectic in my ceramic practice’ – or words to that effect. I love all styles of making and enjoy throwing, hand building, slip casting –you name it if it is clay I’ll be there admiring it, caressing it or covered in it!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I have two projects to complete before the end of this academic year – a work based module and a site-specific module. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The work-based project is nearly completed and at this very moment I am writing up my last work placement that finished today. I will make this the subject of my first entry ……</span></div></div><br />
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