I had pre-Christmas sale at the John Radcliffe Hospital at the end of November 2019. We had a good number of people visiting my stand and interest in my work. To my astonishment the brother in law of Jim Malone introduced himself and we had a good chat about Jim's work and potting in... Continue Reading →

  I had a very successful pottery sale at the Otmoor Art Fair in October 2019. I sold £860 of pots on behalf of the Oxford Children's Hospital Charity I was overwhelmed by the interest in my pots by visitors to the fair. I had on display both my slip earthenware and woodfired stoneware. Very many... Continue Reading →

  In October I went back up to Scotland to fire the kiln I helped build for its third firing. This time Marcus O'Mahony came over from Ireland to joined us. He provided  considerable advice on firing this type of kiln. It made all the difference and we started firing at 05:30 in the morning... Continue Reading →

In August I attended Nigel Lambert's 4 day woodfiring course. We made some pots on day one which we then slipped and raw glazed ready for firing on day three. He uses a mixture of earthenware and stoneware clay and has a small Phoenix kiln which we fired. Compared to my experience of firing to... Continue Reading →

In May I spent a week with Marcus O'Mahony making pots and firing a wood fired salt glaze kiln. Marcus and Jim Behan built the kiln during the last year and this was its first firing. I brought some pots I had made in my workshop with me but also made several at Marcus's to... Continue Reading →

On 6th December 2018 I had a pre-Christmas sale at the John Radcliffe Hospital in aid of the Oxford Children's Hospital Charitable Trust Funds. We sold £580 worth of pots. I am always amazed that people are interested in the pots I make and some even want to buy them! It has been a good... Continue Reading →