POTTERY

Yesterday the MPA Winterceramics exhibition (Woodbridge Gallery in Moseley) opened and plenty of fun was had, here is our own Fiona - who by the way also edits the MPA Newsletter - with her pots:          

Fiona has pots in it, go have a look, it opens now:

Ort Cafe and the Old Print Works have their Christmas Market/Craft Fair on 3rd December 2016 The Market at the Old Print Works starts half an hour earlier than at the Ort Cafe. Market Old Print Works 10am - 5pm Market Ort Cafe: 10.30am - 5pm The pottery has stalls at both markets. Fiona will also be at the Alcester Artisan Market on Sunday December 4th

one of our potters made a video that encapsulates all the loveliness of throwing: #happydays #pottery #throwing #sundragonpottery A video posted by Steven R (@shabbacat) on Nov 12, 2016 at 10:19am PST

Community leader Becky at work in her pottery office & employee of the month doing some painting:

from Steven's Just Giving Page: Why am I doing this, here are a few reasons: Getting to the half way mark - 40 is getting ever closer so it's a bit of a 40 bucket list thing, along with being on a TV game show, being an extra in a film, delivering a baby animal etc . Sounds like a good challenge- at the beginning of 2016 I couldn’t run for 30 seconds but I stuck with it and am now over three stone lighter. I now run 3-4 times a week and love it. So it feels like a natural progression from 5k to 43k! Supporting a cause close to me- in 2008 I was diagnosed with MS. Fortunately my episodes have never been really ba d but when things have happened it has been scary. If you don't know anything about MS well it's where your immune system attacks your nerves thinking they’re a foreign body, this leads to a breakdown in communication between your brain and parts of your body. I have had two scary episodes, one where I lost feeling below my waist for a month, then the next one

Angela and Janet now flying on Fiona Scanlan 's pottery for beginners course. New course to start on Sunday mornings in the new year.

You lovely people can still go and admire Fiona's pots, as the Exhibition at Why not Gallery in Burton-on-Trent is still open until 20th of November, longer than initially planned. Here are some images: Fiona's pots beautifully displayed  Fiona's pots on mantelpiece There is a new upcoming Midlands Potters exhibition in Moseley and Fiona has pots in it as well. Go and have a look.

exhibition at Goldmark Gallery opens 19th November, go and have a look at all this beauty.

 image courtesy of goldmark Since we last saw you at your 2012 exhibition at the Goldmark Gallery, what have you been up to? AMH: A week ago I carried work for my November show downstairs and I’m sitting now amongst the best pots of four years with the kiln I built when I had my first exhibition with the Goldmark Gallery. So some pots are four years old, almost, and many pots are from the last firing that we opened yesterday. And it has been quite an unexpected adventure since that exhibition. When I had my first show, I had my studio somewhere else on the island, so we moved to this farm and built a workshop and a kiln. It’s been a lot of ‘trial and error’, I think is the British way of saying we’ve been throwing out a lot of things and had a lot of new firings. read the rest here