You know your favourite mug? The one you reach for first thing to hold your caffeine fix, the one that sinks into your hand, a perfect fit as your fingers trace familiar grooves in the shape of the handle.
That’s what I want to make.
Skills are very important to me. Arts and Crafts Movement, love of materials, leaps of imagination, ability to delight equally to jar, revelation of new possibilities in a craft medium.
Every day I can throw is another day of improvement, tiny improvement but obvious with the passage of time. As I learn to throw better the forms improve, looking more natural and flowing and less tortured out of the clay than 5 years ago, or even last year. This is why I throw, and turn, and pull handles and impress and glaze and pack kilns and throw again, for the elation (more often the disappointment but occasionally the elation) that goes with skilfully making objects.
discovering the unknown.