A Potter's Blog

As well as teaching at the University for the Creative Arts, I also teach evening classes twice a week at 318 Ceramics in Farnham.  The classes are mixed ability, 'Exploring Clay' class and a throwing class.  A few weeks ago, one of my students in the Exploring Clay class came to me to ask for help with a project she was working on. She was carving house numbers into clay slabs for her family and wanted to fill the carved number area with glass.  The glass was to be recycled from something and the student made several test pieces with her glass and put them into the kiln to see what would come out. The following week, she had her test pieces out of the kiln and they were surprising.. The glass had melted and formed orange blobs. I asked her what colour the glass was and she produced a jar of broken red glass.  I was a little perplexed about how the red glass could have possibly changed into such an intense orange colour and we were scratching our heads for a while un...

I have so much I want to get down 'on paper'; my story, how I got to where I am, what I'm doing now I'm here and what my hopes and plans are for the future.  Starting a blog feels overwhelming, as if I should have been writing about my adventure in ceramics from the beginning (which I actually did but it was all deleted when I changed from Squarespace 💔). The point at which my journey could be called the 'beginning' will depend on its length in its entirety and I'm hoping to spend my life working with clay.  Therefore, I'm picking my blogging up from the middle of the beginning. I want to get everyone up to speed and I want to share my day to day experiences. This may make my blog confusing, or hard to follow, but it's my blog and I'll write it how I want to. Good night for now.