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HAND EYE FOOT BRAIN: 09/01/2014 - 10/01/2014

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HAND EYE FOOT BRAIN. Applied art. I thought, I saw, I went, I made. COBALT BLUE: LETTER TO AN ADMIRER. I got an e-mail in response to my post Not Quite Monochrome,. Asking me how to use cobalt oxide in the decoration of porcelain. As the question came from someone who declared me "the best ceramist in the world", I took some trouble over the reply. Here's an edited version of what I said. Lead bisilicate frit (permitted in the UK but not the USA): 56%. I hope that helps, and good luck in your work! Click...

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HAND EYE FOOT BRAIN: FREDDIE'S RESTAURANT HELPS PUT renaissance: ST ALBANS ON THE MAP

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HAND EYE FOOT BRAIN. Applied art. I thought, I saw, I went, I made. FREDDIE'S RESTAURANT HELPS PUT renaissance: ST ALBANS ON THE MAP. Last night I went to Freddie's restaurant. To help raise funds for renaissance: ST ALBANS. The arts initiative I mentioned in my last blog post. St Albans council and the museums trust want to convert the old town hall into a museum and gallery space and make it a major visitor destination. Posted by Marshall Colman. Subscribe to: Post Comments ( Atom ). Poemas del río Wang.

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Biography – Being Erica

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Freelance journalist and writer. Erica is a freelance journalist, and blogger. She started her career in 1999 as a glamorous fashion assistant at The Daily Telegraph. Where she stayed for 2 years in the chic clutches of Hilary Alexander. Here, she insisted on wearing a Rasta scarf and German army jacket to the office every day. No-one said anything. Possibly because she spent most of her time on the floor of her domain the fashion cupboard, under the red cheeks of the fashion editor’s PA. For people with...

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HAND EYE FOOT BRAIN: WHO WAS DORA BILLINGTON?

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HAND EYE FOOT BRAIN. Applied art. I thought, I saw, I went, I made. WHO WAS DORA BILLINGTON? But who was she? The first clue I got was from a niece, who asked me “Do you know about her friend? Dora’s colleague and friend, whom everyone called HG. There’s a fourth person, the one who took the snap; I’ll come to him in a minute. On the first page of a commonplace book Dora wrote out Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30, which clearly expresses her feelings about Catherine’s death:. The sad account of fore-bemoanèd moan,.

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HAND EYE FOOT BRAIN: NO JOB TOO SMALL

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HAND EYE FOOT BRAIN. Applied art. I thought, I saw, I went, I made. NO JOB TOO SMALL. How many times have you read that, only to be told by the company when you ask them to mend your doorbell, “Sorry, it’s too small to be economic”? Well, I found the perfect engineering firm for which it was true: no job really was too small. 8221; I say. Posted by Marshall Colman. Subscribe to: Post Comments ( Atom ). Click here for advance notice of my exhibitions and talks. Peasant Arts - Haslemere. Poemas del río Wang.

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HAND EYE FOOT BRAIN: 10/01/2014 - 11/01/2014

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HAND EYE FOOT BRAIN. Applied art. I thought, I saw, I went, I made. CERAMIC EDUCATION IN BRITAIN. I've written before about the closure of the Harrow ceramics course. The BA Ceramics at the University of Westminster. Matthew Partington, of the University of the West of England, described the closure of ceramics courses a few years ago in an interesting paper "Can British ceramics education survive? There were too many ceramics courses and it was impossible to fill the places. They're expensive, and i...

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HAND EYE FOOT BRAIN: NELL VYSE, POTTER AND COMMUNIST

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HAND EYE FOOT BRAIN. Applied art. I thought, I saw, I went, I made. NELL VYSE, POTTER AND COMMUNIST. This picture came up on e-Bay recently, from the London Illustrated News. 1882– 1971) was an early studio potter who made a good living with his wife Nell Vyse (1892-1967) in the 1920s and 1930s, producing the sort of figurines shown in this picture and illustrated left, but they also had a very different line of work making innovative pottery in the Sung Chinese style. A fascinating gap in ceramic histor...

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HAND EYE FOOT BRAIN: 11/01/2014 - 12/01/2014

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HAND EYE FOOT BRAIN. Applied art. I thought, I saw, I went, I made. PS TO CERAMIC EDUCATION IN BRITAIN. In my last post. Most must have learned informally outside art schools. The quality of their work was variable; some were very good, many were mediocre and some were no good at all; but in terms of numbers, the training of potters clearly does not depend entirely on art schools. Posted by Marshall Colman. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts ( Atom ). Peasant Arts - Haslemere. Poemas del río Wang.

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HAND EYE FOOT BRAIN: renaissance: ST ALBANS - A NEW GALLERY AND MUSEUM FOR THE CITY

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HAND EYE FOOT BRAIN. Applied art. I thought, I saw, I went, I made. Renaissance: ST ALBANS - A NEW GALLERY AND MUSEUM FOR THE CITY. St Albans, where I live, is a historic city popular with tourists. It has Ancient British, Roman and Saxon foundations. It has a rich musical life, ranging from the International Organ Festival to acoustic performers in local pubs - in fact it seems that nearly every pub has a music night. Now the local council and the St Albans Museums Museums and Galleries Trust. Our old t...

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HAND EYE FOOT BRAIN: NEW WORK AT "ART IN CLAY"

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HAND EYE FOOT BRAIN. Applied art. I thought, I saw, I went, I made. NEW WORK AT "ART IN CLAY". Here straight from the kiln are three vases that I'll be exhibiting at Art in Clay, Hatfield, from 3-5 July. Full details here. They are a selection of three of my current patterns: Parrot, Blue Arabesque, and Harlequin. I'll be showing vases, jugs, mugs and covered jars in these patterns. More pictures soon - I have more glazing and decorating to do and two kilns to fire before Hatfield. Poemas del río Wang.