For years now, we have been trying to get a project over the line. It has often seemed like it was never going to happen, but now we are finally on the cusp of making it reality. When we moved to our house, we were not looking for lots of land. Our brief was simple […]
For those of you interested in the interface between spirituality, art and social justice, perhaps this might be worth hearing about. Chris has been involved in a project to revive an old publishing organisation called Proost. It will become a community interest company soon, but at present, the work is more to build community. As […]
This is coming soon! We hope you can make it. In case you wondered about the title, it comes from a poem… which in turn was inspired by some words from author and activist Dougald Hine, whose book At work in the ruins has been influential to both Chris and James. Faced with […]
We assume that many of you who come here have an interested in poetry and spirituality- which after all are the stuff of seatree as much as anything. If we are right, you might also be interested in a project that Chris has been working on along with a couple of friends… This involves work […]
Here at seatree, we have always tried to make art that not only responds to our context, but also digs into the grist of things. Both of us have a background working amongst excluded groups of people and feel passionate about social justice. At the same time, our decision to live and work through our […]
A post from Chris, reflecting on the evolution of some of the seatree elemental pieces. Over the past few years I have been grappling with a new craft. Even though we have run a business making pottery for about a decade, Michaela was the potter really whilst just worked around the edges, helping out […]
Today we added a small piece to an exibition marking the second coming of Donald Trump as president of the United States. An enterprising and thoughtful local couple had gathered a whole bunch of A4 artistic responses to this new moment of uncertainty for our Western civilisation, stringing them up in lines in their gallery. […]
It is always difficult to talk about money and so if this feels uncomfortable, move on. Otherwise, hear me out as I try to do justice to this rather tricky subject. After all, many of us wonder whether it might be possible to make a living through art and so I intend to be rather […]
We are very excited to be finally able to make our big announcement! Over the last few months, we have been working on a new collection of ceramics, which we are calling ‘seatree elemental’. This collection takes a brand new direction, whilst still retaining a lot of what we love about our work. ‘Seatree elemental’ […]
A few months ago, Michaela listened to one of those business webinar things aimed at small creative businesses, where they were talking about different ways for artists like us to make a living from what we create. The idea was that we could use Patreon as an exchange, in which people give monthly support in […]