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
Label
Label with stamps from a vintage Hat Box I am a keen photographer, snapping anything of interest I happen to come across. I enjoy detail and am constantly drawn to surface textures, colours, tones, lines and marks on surfaces and objects. I particularly enjoy old collectibles and curiosities, historic buildings, worn or disintegrating objects which suggest a fragility but also … Read More