Mixed Media Spoons by Hannah Whale My grandmother had a small wooden box with mother of pearl inlay which, as a small child, I was allowed to look at and open from time to time. It contained a selection of ‘memory spoons’ – silver plated teaspoons with brightly coloured enamel badges bearing coats of arms, flags and place names … Read More
Robert Cooper
Tea Caddy – Robert Cooper I was fortunate to have Robert Cooper as a tutor during my two years on the City Lit Ceramic Diploma course. He is a free-spirit with an open-minded and experimental approach to ceramics, as well as being a committed, engaging and enormously enthusiastic teacher – full of ideas and suggestions. An inveterate collector and … Read More
Clay Pipes
Clay Pipes I come across numerous clay pipes – or fragments of them – on the foreshore. They are a common find for mud-larkers as most working men smoked tobacco in ‘days of yore’. What is fascinating is that they come in so many sizes, shapes and designs. The one with the Buffalo Head and letters RAOB (Royal Antedeluvian Society … Read More
A Good Listener
‘Curation’ – ‘A Good Listener’ Since moving to this part of Kent I have become a regular mud-larker. The Thames Estuary is rich in fragments of history from Neolithic times to the present day. I often take myself for walks along the foreshore and have amassed an interesting collection of ‘finds’. I enjoy displaying these, playing around with them and … Read More
Listen
‘Curation’ – ‘Listen – you can hear the sea’ Like many artists and makers I am fascinated by found objects – both natural and manmade – but primarily those found in the landscape around my home. I am a compulsive collector – “a snapper up of unconsidered trifles”- and also of books, ephemera and artwork – drawings, paintings, prints and … Read More