Swimming, eating, drinking.
pottery here is also associated with the great names of Catalan art: Gaudí, Miró, Dalí and, though born in Malaga, Picasso.
Entries by Peter Arscott
Someone to watch over me
A whimsical exploration of custodians, ceramic or otherwise, of domestic and work spaces.
Adeus, Astrud.
Peter Arscott Ceramics on the sublime world of song.
Potters and solitude
This is a post about the consequences of working too much by oneself.
My conversation with Eric
my up-and-coming ceramic exhibition and a conversation with a rodent
The Spirit with no anus – pottery and anthropology
Pottery and Amazonian mythology
Going anywhere near Chichester?
Hello all. Apologies for the brevity of this blog (though some of you might be relieved to be spared the usual ramblings). Oxmarket Contemporary is hosting its first of the Open Winners’ Exhibitions on 14th – 25th February. The Open offered five categories of submission including the applied arts (craft), drawing and illustration, painting, print and photography […]
The Madding Crowds
Peter Arscott Ceramics paid a quick visit to London a few weeks ago, in order to go to some exhibitions. Walking from gallery to gallery was as demanding as climbing Bradlow Hill, not because of any steep incline but because of the number of people out and about in the capital. – wall-to-wall human flesh, […]
Kiln Kat Kalamity
It may have been a cold early December afternoon, but a walk was needed up to CJ’s bench on Bradlow Hill, in part to clear the cobwebs, but mainly to meditate on the day’s disruptions and to put things in perspective. Kiln firings do sometimes go wrong – it’s not the end of the world. […]
November fauna – where have all the bunnies gone?
There is admittedly no obvious connection between jellyfish, numbats and ceramics, but walking up Bradlow Hill on a mild and misty morning, with no sightings of any fauna, not even sheep, any imagination can get carried away and a yearning for the exotic can take over when the landscape starts turning into a monochrome dun […]