Design Process in progress

I love working on my own in my workshop

the space is very special to me.

I think that having waited 22 years for my own workshop

now that I have it I don't want to share it.

But more recently Marion has been coming down at the weekends

and making a few things and watching and learning.

I always felt like a very lonely potter,

who just wanted to close the door

 and get on with making what I want to make in my own way.

But this weekend has changed all that.

We had been discussing a design for a large plate or platter

and I weighed up 6lbs of clay and threw a 13" wide ( bowl ).

This was not what we had talked about. 

So I weighed up 5lbs of clay and made this.

This wasn't what we had talked about either!

So I weighed up 6lbs again and made this,

no different to the first one. 

so I tried again, getting closer but the base was too small.

In the end I weighed up 6.5lbs of clay

and made this 15" wide platter with plenty of meat at the bottom

for turning. 

it was great to have someone to work with and to discuss what I was making

or to put it another way "to point out the error of my ways."

But we got there in the end.

we had unloaded the kiln earlier and we both liked this large bowl

in the Old English White glaze. 

 and this small pancheon in the Buckley style

surprised me, it's been sat on the shelf for months

and I had not felt inspired to glaze it.

But when it came out I found myself sitting down watching

my Svend Bayer DVD in the showroom whilst hugging this pot.

Marion went home earlier to prep for the roast dinner last night

and it was great to see this Pancheon of potatoes

sat on the kitchen table when I got home. 

what nicer site could a potter wish to see.