New Ceramics in closeup...

The classes and groups of ceramic students have finished...

...covid put an end to all that.

But life goes on in the studio with an exhibition of artists' work , including Alan's, due to be curated in January at Technically Brilliant Art Gallery in The Golden Square Mall in Warrington.

I've taken these shots with the macro lens on my Canon EOS 5D.

They are on three large ceramic sculptural works based on the coast that we both love in Suffolk.

Southwold, Aldeburgh and Walberswick.

Alan also exhibits at Buckenham House, High Street, Southwold .  

 

Beach Huts and Boats. Southwold.

Harbour on the Blythe River Southwold.

I probably won't have time to blog next week.

So I wish any and all who may read my stories here....

A very happy peaceful and blessed Christmas time.

Inspiration...Time and Tide.

There's so much "stuff" out there...apart from in here 

...that's at The Potters House....I mean.

Then every now and again you see something and some art touches a very deep spot in your soul.

That's how we felt seeing the work of Roger Hardy in The East Coast Cafe in Aldeburgh.

An Exhibition called ...Time and Tide

   

From the reedy banks of the Alde river he collects driftwood and over time turns it into stunning assemblages.

I have always been an edge walker...that's the edge of the tide.

Whether Ballyferris in Northern Ireland...our favourite beach in Spain or nowadays Morecambe Bay.

And if you are such a walker you can't help but love how the sea takes what it can..changes it and throws it back up on the banks and beaches when it 's finished with it.

   

This is worth a look online for any assemblage lover of art and walker on the edge.

A Poem for Thursday....

I was asked by @neviepiecakes aka Natasha Collins...lovely daughter..if I would post some pics for seven days from the different series that I've taken on camera. Thankyou Natasha.
This photo is one of three from a travel series. It now belongs to a great friend. I'm sure that there are references in this pic from wonderful international photographers...and so I give them thanks for their blogs and hope that I may have learnt from them and their skills.

I often think poetry when I take pics...and this little poem is very apt for the feelings often there when on a long journey...and you are really nowhere!

To Travel

To travel is to be nowhere.

You’re not here

And you’re not there.

So,

If you get the wrong train to somewhere,

Or you get off at

The wrong station for somewhere,

Does that mean

That you have completely disappeared?

And when the train gets to somewhere

Will they find that you are nowhere.

And how will you get back from there?

I'll post the other two in the series for you. 

 The start of the journey

All change at Euston

The Rhinoceros

The potter has an uncanny knack of being ahead of the game.....the word game I use lightly!  No football meant.
He produced his first penguins a few months before "The March of the Penguins", arrived on the big screen. The polar bears before the global warming fears were played out on the small screen each night.
The latest animal to emerge from the heat of the kiln...is the rhinoceros.
She...for it is she....is ready for a night on the tiles with nails painted red as she sashays out into the big wide world.
The great white rhino is all but extinct ....I believe only five exist in the world today and they are all in zoos...how sad that man's greed....sale of the magnificent horns...will mean generations to come will not have the joy of knowing this armour clad beast in all her grandeur.

This magnificent creature will be on display at The Gallery Bank Quay House, Warrington from tomorrow in a new exhibition there.

As will this photograph of The Old Girl's Grammar School Palmyra Square Warrington. By your's truly!

 Open until 20th April.....