Studio sale

Tonight, we had a studio sale. It’s a way every now and then to clear away some things that we maybe have had around for a while. Sometimes too, we have seconds – maybe the glaze colours aren’t right, or the words aren’t clear enough after firing, or something didn’t go right in the kiln, like in this recent firing where the clay ‘bloated’.

A long while back, someone said to me that you shouldn’t keep things that are ‘wrong’ as they don’t help your creativity. I think it’s true. It can be, usually is, that our ‘mistakes’ are still part of our learning but we don’t need to keep them around for that. They also serve to remind our inner critics that we have messed up.

The extra reason for doing a studio sale is that we know that some of our community like and need work that is in a lower price bracket.

And finally, we also know from doing fairs and events that quite often pieces we don’t sit well with any more, for whatever reason, someone else just loves! Or pieces that we love don’t sell for a long time, then suddenly someone falls in love. So, we pass them on with joy!