Pots on the Piazza

11th September 2008
Members will be converging on Truro’s busy Lemon Quay Piazza on Thursday 11th September for a special Potters Market Day.
Nic Harrison from Trelowarren Pottery and Frances Osborne from Fraddon Pottery showing some of the pots which will be on their stalls at the potters Market.
11th October AGM St Ives (Change of venue) plus visit to Leach Pottery - details to follow...

ConTrad Expo

Contemporary and Traditional items
Past & Present TOGETHER Under One Roof!
at The Westpoint Exhibition Centre, Exeter, Devon
Saturday & Sunday August 16th & 17th.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND BOOKINGS TEL DCAF 01363 82571.
The name of this event has changed from the "Devon's Collectors Festival" to ConTrad Expo in order to reflect more accurately the range and exciting mix of Contemporary and Traditional items that will be brought together at Westpoint for the first time.

The new event will allow both regular and new exhibitors the chance to offer a much wider selection of items to buyers, ranging from TRADITIONAL antiques, retro, collectables, furniture and memorabilia, to 20th century CONTEMPORARY art and design, sculpture, photography, pottery, ceramics, studio glass, textiles, lighting, jewellery, and individual items of hand made furniture, etc.
More details

Open Studios

This year Barry Marshall-Johnson is taking part in the above event from May 24th to 30th.
If you are in Fowey he would be delighted to welcome you at WESTCLIFF POTTERY 22 Tower Park, Fowey, Cornwall, PL23 1JB.
Tel: 01726 832795
email: westcliffpottery@btinternet.com
www.westcliff-pottery.co.uk

Craft and Produce fair

Claire Hoskin is organising a Cornish Craft and Produce fair.
The event will be held at the Kingsford venue Flambards in Helston in August.
It will be a 2 day event with the choice to book a 1 day or 2 days and there will be 45 stall spaces available. More details from john.hoskin@btopenworld.com .

New members

Welcome to new members Tim Wayne and Sally Sanderson

Ian Gregory master class

A wonderfully, inspiring day with Ian Gregory demonstrating his skills with clay and discussing his methods.

Lynda Jewell

New member Lynda Jewell
began her career in 1977, training with John Buchanan of 'Anchor Pottery' St. Ives.
She started her own pottery in 1983 in Redruth.
She works with a gas kiln using bright and basic colours- celedon, tenmoku and rutile glazes.

New members

Welcome to new members Samme Charlesworth. Choochit Hawkey, Lynda Jewell and Hugh Perry

Ian Gregory Masterclass

Saturday 15th March 2008
10 am – 4 pm
Design Centre, Tremough Campus,University College, Falmouth

Ian's Gregory’s work spans a great many areas of ceramics, including salt glazed stoneware, life-size statuary, raku and mixed media installation. He was one of the first potters to experiment with paperclay and he is an innovative and highly original kiln builder His figurative sculpture, both human and canine, have a linear, craggy quality. His experimental approach with materials and processes has enabled him to produce work of great vitality.

“’If the role of the artist is to make the ordinary extraordinary, then Ian Gregory's work exemplifies this ideal.” - Peter Starkey

Join him for a demonstration and discussion about his work, paperclay and kiln firing

Cost to members £15 non members £18

If you would like to reserve a place/places on the Ian Gregory Masterclass
for Saturday 15th March 2008, please send a cheque for the amount and include your name, address, membership no., email or telephone no. and stamp addressed envelope please to
Frances Osborne, Fraddon Pottery, Fraddon, Cornwall TR9 6QU - Tel: 01726 860206

Save Rufford Ceramics Centre

Outcome of Meeting with Notts County Council, 4th January

Thank you for signing the petition to Save Rufford Ceramics Centre! There are now 1,276 signatories.

On 4th January, Carl Gray and Katie Greenfield, as representatives of the Save Rufford Ceramics Centre (RCC) Petition Group, met with NCC to discuss the petitioners’ concerns. We requested:
1. A 3-month stay of execution at The RCC (Rejected by NCC)
2. Clarification on the detail of NCC’s new model (Rejected by NCC)
3. To run an initial 3-month feasibility study for forming a National Ceramics Centre at Rufford, to build on The RCC’s reputation, embrace NCC’s local aims & objectives and open up new sources of funding for the whole community (Rejected by NCC)
It was apparent in the meeting that NCC’s representatives are in denial that they are custodians of a centre of international repute which is respected throughout the world.
We have written an open letter to NCC, urging them to reconsider.
You can read this letter and a detailed summary of what was discussed at the meeting at the Save Rufford Blog:
To up the pressure on NCC, we need to make more people aware of what is happening. Please ask your friends and colleagues to sign the petition:

In our and 1,276 other people's views to date, NCC's approach is fundamentally wrong and NCC, the community it serves and the UK will be poorer for it.
We welcome your feedback and comments via the blog, the petition forum or on email.
Thank you for your support!
Carl Gray and Katie Greenfield

Celebrating Salt and Soda

Celebrating Salt and Soda - a weekend workshop
Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th April 2008 Informative and FUN, this two-day workshop, supported by the CPA and hosted at Whichford Pottery, just north of Oxford, will feature practical demonstrations, discussions and seminars by many of Britains'leading exponents of salt and soda firing techniques - Jack Doherty, Ian Gregory, Mark Griffiths, Lisa Hammond, John Jelfs and Phil Rogers. In addition, Jim Keeling, famous for his big-ware flowerpots, will throw an enormous pot in stages over the 2 days! Two new kilns are being built especially for this event, and weekend workshop visitors will be able to see firings and openings, and be part of the excitement of vapour glazing. A celebratory feast is also planned for the Saturday night.
The weekend will also mark the start of a major selling exhibition of new work in salt and soda by Sheila Casson, Richard Dewar, Jack Doherty, Ray Finch and Winchcombe Pottery, Lisa Hammond, Ian Gregory, Mark Griffiths, John Jelfs, Toff Millway, Phil Rogers, Peter Starkey, Ruthanne Tudball, Sarah Walton and Alistair Young. The exhibition will be held in the spectacular new exhibition space at Whichford Pottery - The Octagon.We expect great interest from the potting community and places are limited; so early booking is advisable! Plenty of good local accommodation is available, and also camping at the village pub.

Tickets £100 (£80 CPA members & concessions)

Please contact The Octagon at Whichford Pottery, Whichford, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, CV36 5PG

Tel: 01608 684416 www.theoctagon.co.uk

saltandsoda@theoctagon.co.uk

Jenni Hale Open Weekend

Jenni Hale is having an open weekend 1st and 2nd December Everyone is welcome
for details go to www.jenniehale.co.uk

Bauble Blowing demonstration

The Glassblowing Studio is open to the public this Friday 30th November 2007 for a Christmas Bauble Blowing demonstration.
So if you've ever wondered how it's done, then please come and join us on Friday 30 November between 6 and 9pm and warm yourselves up by the furnace with a glass of mulled wine and a hot, home made mince pie.
We shall also be having a "Bag of Baubles" raffle in aid of Cancer Research UK.
It's wonderful to be able to show people how Malcolm makes beautiful christmas baubles out of molten glass and a bit of puff, he makes it look so easy!. (If you fancy having a go at glassblowing why not book a glassblowing lesson, details on our website www.malcolmsutcliffe.co.uk or give us a ring 01326 377020)

Looking forward to seeing you on Friday evening!

Malcolm Sutcliffe Glass Gallery & Studio
2 West Street,
Penryn,
Cornwall
TR10 8EW, UK

Christmas Evening

CC&GG member Andy Nicholls and his wife Alison, have kindly invited members to a Christmas evening get together on Sunday December the 16th from 4 pm. Partners are invited and everyone is asked to bring some food and drink, American supper style. There will be a ceramic video or two and some games. Suggestions welcome.
Andy and Alison live in a very new and interesting property at Trevone near Padstow. Their house is the first to be built in the UK by Baufritz who are the leading eco house builders in Germany. His ceramic studio is slate hung with a chamomile green roof. .
The address is: The Breakers, Dobbin Road, Trevone near Padstow PL28 8QW Tel:01841 520 992
Directions:
Follow signs toward Padstow turning off toward St Merryn on the A389. Take the turning off to Trevone at Windmill (hamlet not a building) and half a mile down on the right, opposite the village hall, there is a sign to the Well Park Pub,
Dobbin Road is straight on along the private road. The house is the new slate and weather boarded house on the right next to Ocean Apartments (parking is restricted there is extra parking by the pub 300 yards away)
If you would like to join us, meet other members and have a great evening please contact Andy at the above address or telephone number or easier still email him at: andrewnicholls517@btinternet.com

Visit to Svend Bayer & Sandy Brown

SATURDAY 24TH NOVEMBER
This year we'll be returning to Svend Bayer’s studio for his annual sale, at which you should be able to acquire wonderful examples of work by this renowned potter at bargain prices. We shall also have the opportunity to see his remarkable wood fired kilns, in which his work is fired to cone 12 over a period of about four days. The pottery is at Duckpool Cottage, Sheepwash, Black Torrington, North Devon and is best approached from Highampton on the Holsworthy to Hatherleigh road, turning left to travel due north, passing straight through Sheepwash village square, continuing for about 1.5 miles to Filleigh Moor, grid reference SX 485086. Please aim to be there at 10.30 am.
Lunch will be at either the Half Moon at Sheepwash (which changes hands in early November) or the Royal George or the Beaver at Appledore. More details on the day.
We travel to Appledore to meet Sandy Brown at 2.30pm at her home, 3 Marine Parade, EX39 1PJ, where we will see her collection of expressive, colourful ceramic artwork. Please be punctual. We will later move on to Sandy’s studio, the Glove Factory.
Please contact Jon Whitten on 01208 880836 or whitten@stkew.eclipse.co.uk if you are intending to come. Please try to share transport where possible.

Feast AND Famine!

The 13th National Pottery and Ceramics Festival.
Hatfield House 3rd – 5th August
This year’s Festival coincided with the hottest weekend of the summer. A Feast of pottery and ceramics was on show but the very hot weather meant a Famine of punters.
Those who stayed away missed the chance to see fine exhibitions of ceramic art and craft with plenty of space for leisurely viewing. Here was something for everyone. The five large exhibition tents housed much that was traditional or familiar but happily there were many challenging forms especially from the numerous overseas contributors and young ceramic graduates. Surface texture (sometimes extreme) was prominent as a decorative alternative to glazing, perhaps denoting an increasingly organic influence, the best exponents showing freely made pieces. Craig Underhill and Robin Welch displayed colourful hand built pieces with sculptural appeal and Svend Bayer’s part finished vessels gave an insight into the potter’s process.

If I had to pick stars of the show from the feast of exciting work I think they would be Eddie Curtis’s exquisite reduced copper red glazes combined on new Japanese inspired forms, Linda de Nil’s monumental textured anagama fired vessels, Becky Harle’s porcelain ribbon swirls and young Akiko Hirai’s tactile Japanese tea bowls.

Sadly there was a famine of Cornish potters and interesting open air demonstrations though some of the presentations were very informative, particularly Andrew Palin’s hand building and volcanic glazes. And if you ran out of money or cheques then there was no cash machine on site for that one last ”must have” purchase! Maybe next year.

On its new bigger site, the Festival’s true value must surely be the chance to exchange ideas and pick the brains of working potters. Famous or unknown, all exhibitors I spoke to were equally happy to talk about their work and techniques. No-one more so than the enthusiastic Wai Shing Cheung from Farnham College who was engagingly vague about the glazes and clay in his exciting tea bowls!

Barry Marshall-Johnson. Westcliff Pottery, Fowey

Cornwall Ceramics and Glass Group AGM

Cornwall Ceramics and Glass Group AGM meeting with Slideshow, talk and demonstration by Simon Carroll
1pm – 5pm Ladock Village Hall, Saturday 29th September 2007

At 1pm refreshments, including free pasties, will be available plus a chance to look at and buy books and equipment.
2pm onwards, a demonstration and slide show by potter Simon Carroll followed by The Cornwall Ceramics and Glass Group AGM.

Simon Carroll’s work is highly original and internationally known. The forms are made from sections that are thrown, pressed into moulds to give surface patterns and textures and assembled together often altered and pushed into eccentric shapes.
He currently works in a studio converted from a derelict airfield building near Padstow. He uses a simple vocabulary of slips and glazes in an exciting and spontaneous way giving great scope for intuitive expression.

Calender of events

14th Oct 2007
Drawing Workshop day with Davina Kirkpatrick Rock Village Institute
10am – 5pm
24th Nov 2007 Trip to Sven Bayer (sale day) and visit to Sandy Brown Workshop Devon ( group transport may be arranged )
3rd Dec – 14th Jan CCGG exhibition at Bodmin Heritage Centre Bodmin
December 2007 (to be arranged) Glass demonstration/event

23rd Feb 2008 ‘Building a relationship with a gallery’
Presentation by Jenny Bailey at Cotehele Gallery on pricing, promotion and working with a gallery Cotehele (NT) 2pm – 4pm (Barn restaurant will be open for lunch)
15th March 2008 Ian Gregory, Master class. Slideshow/Demonstration and presentation on his work and kiln building Full day Venue to be announced
17th /18th May 2008 2 Photography day workshops with Graham Barrett
10 am – 4 pm Newquay AE
May 2008 Exhibition and sale
Port Isaac
22nd June 2008 Tim Gee Porcelain Workshop visit Plymouth

September 2 day major selling event – Lemon Quay
Truro
11th October
AGM- Nic Collins talk on firing Ladock

John Leach

Master classes and workshops

Masterclasses and workshops in Cornwall
Experience an inspiring range of professionally taught master classes and workshops in the field of glass art.
www.falmouth.ac.uk/summerschool