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Day 16 – A Vase A Day Keeps The Anxiety Away

Today!

We are getting these vases into a kiln for a bisque firing and then we can move onto next steps with glazing and firing!

Continuing to pull

From what I have learned around how pottery has helped my PTSD, my plans to help manage the stress and anxiety on lockdown are simple: I will be making a new vase for each day.

I aim to continue updating this post each day with my latest lockdown vase!

Phew!

Or at least that is the plan.

You can also see finished vases (ie not raw clay) here

Day 16 previous days’ vases Day 15 Day 14 Day 12 Day 10 Day 8 Day 6Day 4Day 2 Day 13 Day 11 Day 9 Day 7 Day 5Day 3 Day 1‘Making a vase a day keeps the anxiety away’.

Let me know what you think of the latest vase(s) in the comments below.

Stay safe everyone!

Update – Day 15 – A Vase A Day Keeps The Anxiety Away

Soon

We will be getting these vases into a kiln for a bisque firing (once it stops raining so much!) The soonest we can do so, we will and then we can move onto next steps with glazing and firing!

Continuing to pull

From what I have learned around how pottery has helped my PTSD, my plans to help manage the stress and anxiety on lockdown are simple: I will be making a new vase for each day.

I aim to continue updating this post each day with my latest lockdown vase!

Phew!

Or at least that is the plan.

You can also see finished vases (ie not raw clay) here

Day 15 previous days’ vases Day 14 Day 12 Day 10 Day 8 Day 6Day 4Day 2 Day 13 Day 11 Day 9 Day 7 Day 5Day 3 Day 1‘Making a vase a day keeps the anxiety away’.

Let me know what you think of the latest vase(s) in the comments below.

Stay safe everyone!

On The Wheel Wednesday – Lockdown Vase 14

There is always more to be found [image error] by exploring the same subject again and again. (and again and again)

Hitting the 2 week mark in lockdown vases!

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Day 13 – A Vase A Day Keeps The Anxiety Away

Continuing to pull

From what I have learned around how pottery has helped my PTSD, my plans to help manage the stress and anxiety on lockdown are simple: I will be making a new vase for each day.

I aim to continue updating this post each day with my latest lockdown vase!

Phew!

Or at least that is the plan.

You can also see finished vases (ie not raw clay) here

Day 13 previous days’ vases Day 12 Day 10 Day 8 Day 6Day 4Day 2 Day 11 Day 9 Day 7 Day 5Day 3 Day 1‘Making a vase a day keeps the anxiety away’.

Let me know what you think of the latest vase(s) in the comments below.

Stay safe everyone!

Family Matters

Every family has it’s stories.

In The Myth of Family, we explored family from a spiritual, cultural, emotional, and personal perspective through the use of sculpture and vases. The idea of the ‘Tree of Life’ and ‘Family Tree’ is prominent in these works.

Each piece tells part of the interwoven story that explores our collective roots and the twisted branches that tell the tale of our human family and experience through myths and stories from around the world and throughout time.

The Brahmanda is part of this family. The Brahmanda
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Click here to see more paintings like the one in the background of this photoThe Sanskrit term Brahmanda is derived from two words – ‘Brahma’, the Hindu creator diety, and ‘anda’ which means egg. Not only is the idea of a cosmic/world egg a part of Vedic mythology, it is common among many other cultures and civilizations like the Norse, Greeks, Phoenicians, and Egyptians and even among modern scientists.

You can see it in the show video below or, if your curiosity is piqued,
in closer detail with the full story here.

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Day 12 – A Vase A Day Keeps The Anxiety Away

On the 12th day of lockdown, my vases said to me: “make more room for us please!”

Continuing to pull from what I have learned around how pottery has helped my PTSD, my plans to help manage the stress and anxiety on lockdown are simple: I will be making a new vase for each day.

I aim to continue updating this post each day with my latest lockdown vase!

Phew!

Or at least that is the plan.

You can also see finished vases (ie not raw clay) here

Day 12 previous days’ vases Day 11 Day 10 Day 8 Day 6Day 4Day 2 Day 9 Day 7 Day 5Day 3 Day 1‘Making a vase a day keeps the anxiety away’.

Let me know what you think of the latest vase(s) in the comments below.

Stay safe everyone!

Mugshot Monday

“Coffee is a way of stealing time
that should by rights belong
to your older self.”― Terry Pratchett Mug 18 $3 8
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More mugs can be viewed here.

If you don’t see one for sale in the colour you like,
please contact us and we can work with you directly.

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Day 11 – A Vase A Day Keeps The Anxiety Away

Update: lockdown has been extended to at least month end

We are restricted to our household bubble and trips for essential items only. Thankfully groceries and garden centres are still open (at reduced capacity). Hopefully this will be enough to combat the variants that are the most common COVID-19 here at this time.

Continuing to pull from how pottery has helped my PTSD, my plans to help manage the stress and anxiety are simple: I will be making a new vase for each day of this two week lockdown.

Or at least that is the plan.

I aim to continue updating this post each day with my latest lockdown vase!

Phew!

You can also see finished vases (ie not raw clay) here

Day 11 previous days’ vases Day 10 Day 8 Day 6Day 4Day 2 Day 9 Day 7 Day 5Day 3 Day 1‘Making a vase a day keeps the anxiety away’.

Let me know what you think of the latest vase(s) in the comments below.

Stay safe everyone!

To The Dragon Mothers

Motherhood is always challenging

But imagine trying to raise three wilful dragons. The daycare costs alone must cost a fortune and imagine trying to hire a nanny (though Arya may be a suitable candidate, and possible future sister-in-law.)

Mother of Dragons is named in honour of the Game of Throne’s Daenrys Targaryen, but is also here today to celebrate the full spectrum of motherhood, in all its colours.

Mother of Dragons
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This piece celebrates the magic of motherhood

You can see where the flames have touched this vase during the reduction process. This moment has been captured perfectly and I can see a correlation between where the flames kissed the vase and the patterns on the vase. It was like our dragon friend Viserion was present in spirit before his icy reanimation.

You can see more of our raku vases, here

Three cheers to all
the dragon mothers of the world!

This Week At The Studio In Photos

Forest ferns slowly unfurl Making a vase a day to deal with anxiety as part of this most recent covid lock down.

This is day 7’s vase. You can see more here! Day 11’s will be up later today! The colours come in to play in a wave from the forest floor to the very tips of the trees. Mug 17 showed its colours and textures as part of Mugshot Monday! See more mugs here.
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Spring tulips for all the mothers and motherly figures on Mother’s DayThat’s been the week here.

How’s your week been?