We’re home from a wonderful weekend at Potfest Scotland . We met so many lovely folks, friends old and new, people coming back to buy from us, people with beautiful stories, kids asking great questions.. We also felt a belonging to the wonderful community of potters. The Potfest team encourage working together, celebrating together.. After […]
Words are our thing! One of the projects we make are wee jars with poetry in along with beach finds. Little treasures. I make a line of poetry, write it down then once the sets are all fired, here I am… an hour later and still trying to make sense of the notes and the […]
This is my third attempt at a very large bowl. Once I finished putting the lettering and the textures and lines in, it went into a large mould and is drying nicely. The rocks and pine cone created textures for the bowl. I’ll be posting pictures once it’s finished. It’s my third attempt because the […]
You know how sometimes you don’t necessarily remember the detail of a place, just the feeling, the shape, the light..? That’s what I hope to capture in the pottery – this plate is of Toward, a bay near us. I doubt that anyone local would actually recognise it, but it resembles the way it makes […]
What do you see? My concentration face and the wrong pair of glasses. My daughter’s (rejected) school hoodie. My rings which I never remove for fear of losing them somewhere. A sketch in the background for a new commission. Useful tools – a mini grater for cutting angled edges, a wooden spoon for securing joins, […]
Here I am, joining the younger generation and using my phone to snap a record of what I’m doing. This is of part of an order for a local shop. The reason I snapped a photo is so that I can be sure to remove the pieces from the website shop and will be able […]
Last week the sun shone which meant it was much easier to get the dusty and unhealthy jobs done outside, including making up new glazes. We order a large batch of glazes every now and then and always try one new one. Sometimes it works and fits in well, often it doesn’t! There are a […]
Here’s a glimpse of our stall set up last weekend at Sheffield Ceramics Festival, which was a lovely event. The organisers were brilliant even down to working out the best place for our stall, with us needing boards behind to display the ceramic artworks. It was a little dark in the hall so we went […]
Here at seatree, we believe that community is vastly important. One of the ways this works is with time exchanges – we have some help in the pottery, always on a time exchange basis. Share and share alike. Gwen helps with glazing and in exchange with help her with DIY. Karen, pictured above, helps with […]
Every now and then, I make a batch of wee things – hearts, tiny ones like these to go into tiny glass jars, hearts with words on, small pieces of clay with just one word on to go in a jar of beach treasures. I find it very therapeutic. I have a pottery friend, Pauline, […]