Recently Michaela has been untertaking a course with the brilliant Design Trust, intended to help us develop new skills around making our website more effective because, after all, this online selling thing is a brand new world for us. She was both surprised and pleased that the course first encouraged participants look at what their […]
We’ve missed people’s creativity and energy around the studio and so cooked up an idea. After lots of research and trials, we are now up and running with Workshops in a Tin. How does it work?It involves sending you a slab of clay, with instructions and design ideas. You need no experience, but if you […]
Five things we’ve learnt during lockdown… .1. Websites Chris has been busy working on the website and as most of you will appreciate, that’s a steep learning curve. Check it out here – we’d love to hear your thoughts. We now have a shop online! How exciting! Michaela is also doing a brilliant course with the Design […]
Here are a few ideas for gifts for teachers as we draw to the end of term here in Scotland (although English teachers deserve thanks too!) I have had a few conversations in the last week about buying a gift to say thank you to the teacher, and it set me thinking. When I was […]
We’ve had a very up and down time during the lock down, probably like most people. One of the definite ‘ups’ has been being a part of the Secret Regatta exhibition at Tighnabruaich Gallery. Please do check it out. There’s a link here with an introduction to the exhibition, and a video tour of the gallery with […]
This piece was a commission earlier this year for one of our tiled pictures to be sent to Australia but unframed due to customs. The customer wanted something for a gift for a family member who loves the sea and sailing – a perfect opportunity to use one of my favourite of Chris’s poems – […]
Coirsdan, from the lovely Blairmore Gallery, is running a number of on-line art workshops over the next period, and we are delighted to announce that Chris will be running one on poetry. This will be on the 16th of June, from 2PM. We called the workshop ‘poetry appreciation’, because our aim is not to write […]
If we were not going to do it now, we never would… When the Great Silence began, we worried about all the usual things. Our income was based on three things; workshops, galleries and the big ceramics fairs. All three were cut off at the knees. What should we do? How could we survive? Michaela […]
During these strange and dark days of lockdown due to COVID-19, our house has been full. Our son Will and daughter Emily both live on boats, in a boatyard that has closed, so both of them have come home, along with Em’s boyfriend James. We feel deeply blessed because whilst many of us are struggling […]
That saying about the cobbler’s kids… I think it’s something like, ‘the cobbler’s children never have shoes’. It’s a bit like that in our house with a half-tiled kitchen for many months, but it is now finished, even grouted. Tiles are very simple to make really, once you have a design. This is the water, […]
