03/05/2018
Handmade Table – Bush Picnic
- Our house is a funny place, it looks like a little wooden house but downstairs pots come out of one door and handmade mozzarella and buffalo cheese out of the other. Spring is in the air, time for burrata made by my favourite cheesemaker @cedar .street.cheeserie (he didn't make me say that, he really is my favourite!) #australianceramics #Qlddesign #slowlivingforlife #localhandmade #malenyhandmade #burrata
- Glass and pots 2010. This was the year that @stickandstonejewellery and I did an inspiring residency with @canberraglassworks . Working with glass, etching and sandblasting we had a fabulous mentor in Kirstie Rea. @nettymayblair blew these bubbles in the greys, yellowy greens and murky purples of the wallum swamp. #australianartist #collaboration #Qlddesign #australianceramics
- Big, fragile drawings. #wippottery
- Small drawings. Owls and constellations. #australianceramics #terrasig #instapottery #pottersofinstagram #Qlddesign
- In the studio yesterday. @cellodreaming and I are working on something special for the Australian Ceramics Triennale in Hobart (1-4th of May) next year. I love working with other artists especially when I say.... "Do you think we could do... Insert insane suggestion...? " and they say "Yes!" #australianceramics #australianceramicstriennale #Qlddesign #wip #artistslife
- Diary entry 8th of June 2010 "Making work, it's like evolution. A difficult, painful, weird process that needs a million factors to align before a successful adaptation emerges. The idea itself is like primordial soup, for it to grow legs, or wings is an almost physically impossible, slow test of endurance" #wip #artistslife #australianceramics
- Moth bowls 2016 Looking back. #australianceramics #terrasig #stoneware #instapottery #lepidoptera #sunshinecoastartist
- Escape your everyday and come on a Creative Voyage. Draw, make pots, laugh, explore, feast around the fire, eat delicious, local food. Join Nanna Bayer and I. Only 4 tickets left. Link in the profile. A two day creative retreat in Maleny on October 27-28. (absolutely beautiful images by @the .flo.show @annabellehickson and @luisabrimble ) #australianceramics #creativelifehappylife #creativityfound #makersmovement #momentslikethese #slowlivingforlife #creativeretreat #myopenkitchenstories
- Teapots, the holy grail of the potter's art. When I teach workshops this is an item that everyone wants to make. I was the same when I first started out and I made plenty of dribbley, poorly balanced teapots in my early years! They are hard to make but very satisfying. #teadreams #australianceramics #tawnyowl #handmadeteapots #makersvillage #instapottery #australianartist
- Sometimes I wish I could just give up tableware and make work with individual drawings all the time. But making work for humble, everyday acts is such a pleasure and a privilege. It is a different making to the rush and clash of drawings, adrenaline soaring and the blood beating in your ears. Making production is a more homely activity, busy, intense, physical, there is pleasure in that also. #australianceramics #Qlddesign #sunshinecoastartist #markmaking #instapottery #pottery #porcelain
- Sailor's knots. From an old book of knots I found in an ancient sea chest under our house. As I opened it the velvet lining fell away in rags and a whiff of brine drifted up from a length of handmade rope knotted in a "Monkey's Fist" sitting on top of this old, crumbling book. (Not really, I found this wonderful old book on the internet, but I do love the hand drawn illustrations of knots. ) #sailorsknots #pottersofinstagram #artcollector #australianartist #markmaking
- Special commission for a special granddaughter. (not mine! Too early for that although, the years speed by and I barely know who the gigantic children that eat gustily and tell funny political jokes at the table are). Owls and Gryphons, wisdom and courage, for a fresh, new person. #australianceramics #porcelain #mythicalcreatures #countrystyle