Tree Music
Peter Arscott Ceramics at The Chuffed Store and a meandering autumnal encounter with an enraged squirrel
Entries by Peter Arscott
Wanted
ceramics, Covid and Nature
Clay is good for you
a ceramicist’s meander in a wood
Free ceramic pieces
another walk in the bucolic landscape around Ledbury
ankle-deep in bluebells (Part 2)
another walk in the bucolic landscape around Ledbury
ankle-deep in bluebells
somewhat flippant reflections on what’s happening to us all right now
Batten down the hatches
somewhat flippant reflections on what’s happening to us all right now
The Patron Saint of potters
It must have been hard for Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby living in Plas Newydd, a stone built house converted into a gothic ‘fantasy’, since all they wanted was to be left alone after running away from their families and setting up home in Wales in 1778. They lived there for 50 years […]
Arscott Ceramics goes pannaging
“If you’re given champagne at lunch, there’s a catch somewhere”, said one of the great diplomats of 19th century Britain, Lord Lyons, a man who loved gastronomy and agreed with Palmerston’s remark that ‘dining is the soul of diplomacy’, and offered at least five courses of Moet & Chandon champagne at his diplomatic dinners because […]
Arscott’s ceramic wanderings
I found myself wandering about in the grounds of a ruined castle, somewhere near the Welsh border, probably Skenfrith, or White Castle, when I came upon an open enclosure, the portcullis and dry moat lay ahead and the grassy area was walled in and contained a massive oak tree. But what most intrigued me a […]