New film!

It’s been weeks since we uploaded a new film. There’s been a lot of building work going on, and we’ve been reorganising the workshop, so not many pots are getting made at the moment. Here’s a little film to show you what’s been happening. It also features Pippin in sweet voice, that I hope will bring you a smile.

Late night Wednesday

Evening all

A short post tonight because I’m exhausted and didn’t finish work until late.

First of all, thank you to everybody who has bought pots from our Shop page. We’ll be getting them out to you in the next few days.

I wanted to share a couple of pictures from yesterday.

We had to run an errand to Kirkudbright, so took the opportunity to give the little ones some time on the beach.

We’re fortunate to have a good sized garden, so lockdown hasn’t been too bad for them, apart from missing their friends of course, but they were so excited to have a change of scenery and to be able to run on the empty sands, it was lovely to see.

Today we’ve beenĀ back in the workshop. Hannah’s been throwing mugs

I’ve been decorating a sgrafitto puzzle jug for an order.

Pippin and Fred have been playing space rockets in a box.

Tomorrow we’re having more building work done on the workshop, with another new door being cut to give us access to the kiln shed at the back of the building. I’ll take some pictures and post them here when it’s done.

Time for bed. Goodnight all

Welcome!

Welcome to our new website.

Here we are on the blog page, where we’ll keep you up to date with what’s going on in our lives.

Under normal circumstances we’d be panicking by now, trying to get the last few pots through the kiln, ready to head off to the Earth & Fire show in Nottinghamshire. But of course, these are not normal circumstances. Instead, we’ve been trying to get on top of all the things that we never usually have the time to do. Just at the moment, we’re sorting out the workshop so that it functions properly, which up until now, it never has.

We moved production home to a workshop in the garden of our Galloway home about three years ago, starting off with two portable cabins, which have, step by step, been roofed and enclosed within wooden buildings, as and when time and money allowed.

This year, the lockdown has provided plenty of time and fortunately sales have continued to happen, so we’ve been wielding paintbrushes and employing a local handyman, to tidy up and streamline our operation.

The blue cabin on the left contains our electric kilns and wood machines. It’s to get a coat of green paint in the forthcoming days, once it stops raining. Only the one wall at the front of the workshop has been painted yet, so there’s a lot to do.

The painting will have to fit in around the next stage, which is to build a large wood fuelled kiln. We intend to start the build in the next week or two. The open-sided kiln shed at the back of the workshop and is ready and waiting.

We need to start getting some pots on the shelves, so as soon as we do, we’ll put some pictures and short videos of them in production, right here.

If you’d like to subscribe to our YouTube channel or sign up to our newsletter, please do. When we’re in full production, we post films every two or three days, and I promise we’ll not overload you with newsletters.

Here’s a little film narrated by our daughter Pippin, imploring you to subscribe to our channel, so that she can earn jelly babies!

Thank you for checking in on us, please do drop by again soon to see how we’re getting on.

New Website

If you have discovered this blog then you will by now have realised that we have had a lovely new website built by Tim Jones at JCC Creative. Tim is based just across the moors from us here in Galloway. It’s been ongoing for a while and has been stopped and started along the way for various reasons. Anyway, it’s now here and we hope that you enjoy it. Please do sign up to our newsletter if you would like to keep in touch and haven’t already.

Tradition – East & West, The Movie

The Stratford Gallery have made this lovely film of the exhibition ‘Tradition – East & West’ laid out in the gallery as if it were opening to the public. It’s wonderful for us to see it like this as we were very disappointed to not be able to attend a public opening. As we said previously we are thrilled to be exhibiting with the highly renown potter from Mashiko, Japan, Tomoo Hamada, quite an honour. The pots that have already been purchased, thank you to all who have done so, we are amazed at the response, should be winging their way across the world right now.

 

Tradition – East & West

 

 

 

 

 

This is the poster for our exhibition at The Stratford Gallery, obviously because of Covid-19 the show will open purely online with the aim of being open to the public later on. Emma and Howard at the gallery have done and always do an incredible job and we are very excited and honoured to be showing alongside Tomoo Hamada from Mashiko, Japan.

The exhibition runs from June 5th through to June 27th.