The source of our inspiration

We made this bowl recently and I was struck by how familiar the colours were. Here you can see the image alongside, of the shoreline by our house. Isn’t it beautiful. Chris didn’t go down to the shore and choose the glaze colours. It’s more like we just have soaked in the colours here and they flow out of us into the work we do. I’ve often wondered what our work would look like if we lived in the city….

We love the work of our friend and fellow artist Si Smith whose work is based in his home city of Leeds – people, architecture, the ways people travel through life.

I guess ours is the lines in the sand, the tidal pools, the spirituality of the wild places.

Both have such value. The connection to our land, to the place, to the people we are surrounded by, the conversations, the hopes, the dilemmas..

The colours here are so beautiful. Soft, grey, clear. They still the soul and you can rest in them. Although our work is not fundamentally about the Cowal Peninsula, or even Argyll, the very being of it seeps through into what we do together – the words and the shape and form and colour.