So as with all blogs the trick is to keep them up to date but with the Corona Virus things have been slow although not yet stopped. I left a disappointingly small pot and a half glazed sugar bowl with Bill and my most successful thrown piece to date with Sara – see below. But in the meantime I have been pottering away although without the guidance of my two gurus, Sara and Bill, so that times when one or other of them might have asked ” do you really want to do it like that?” or my approach to a piece might have prompted a raised eyebrow sufficient for me to ask advice, none of that is available. The upshot is that I have been learning the hard way. For example, I made another sugar bowl and scraped away at the foot ring so the base when it dried was paper thin! I have repaired it with paper clay and we’ll see.

I now have enough to put into the newly acquired kiln and this will be the first firing in earnest within the next day or two when the pieces are sufficiently dry…………. The excitement mounts but Grayson Perry quoting the Chinese described ceramics as the “cruelest art”!

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