Category: craft

  • pottery. art, craft and atomic weight

    pottery. art, craft and atomic weight

    I used to do pottery. In fact, I used to be a potter. A full year full time course in Derry, learning from the eminent renaissance man, Brian McGee, and I worked for a while as a production thrower. We build and fired electric, gas, raku and wood kilns, nearly blew up the building, made…

  • Perfume for my x-mas tree, salt for my hair

    Perfume for my x-mas tree, salt for my hair

    Going to my sisters place is fraught with danger. She’s got a large basket with newspapers, economic tidings and interior magazines. It’s the latter that contains pitfalls. On one hand, I like to flick through others’ creativity; other ways to treat three dimensions. Bear in mind that all these magazines are worked over the same…