{"id":4195,"date":"2014-03-24T01:47:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T08:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4195"},"modified":"2014-03-24T01:58:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T08:58:31","slug":"frost-and-sunshine-and-new-pots-to-be-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/blog\/2014\/03\/24\/frost-and-sunshine-and-new-pots-to-be-made\/","title":{"rendered":"frost and sunshine and new pots to be made"},"content":{"rendered":"

a hard frost this morning, rapidly being dispelled by the sun; I may have just lost my peaches, as the tiny peach tree has been in full blossom for over a week – time will tell. next year I will be prepared with fleece.<\/p>\n

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it’s looking okay at this point, the frost, if any, had melted and there were just drops of moisture on it. the sun just about to catch it.<\/p>\n

\"1hellebore\"<\/a><\/p>\n

the hellebores in the shade with frost edging their leaves<\/p>\n

\"1cowslip\"<\/a><\/p>\n

the cowslips looking unhappy, but they are tough natives and the sun will warm them up and uncurl them.<\/p>\n

\"1blackthorn\"<\/a><\/p>\n

the two blackthorns are in full blossom, and there looks to be a lot on the damsons this year; they and the plum tree will soon be in flower.<\/p>\n

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on Saturday I went to the launch of my friend Nic Collins’ exhibition at the Goldmark Gallery – so many beautiful pots. the catalogue essay by David Whiting exactly described why I love Nic’s work – “kindness” – “a softness of execution” “qualities of relaxed precision” “prominent shell and wadding scars \u00c2\u00a0become important components of form”.<\/p>\n

\"1punchong\"<\/a><\/p>\n

just as the aged crackle and the scars become components of the form of this ancient Korean piece from the sixteenth century; it has the same tenderness as Nic’s work.<\/p>\n

\"1nicjar\"<\/a><\/p>\n

the running ashmelt too enhances the softly thrown jars with their strong throwing marks.<\/p>\n

\"1nicguinomi\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I threw restraint to the winds and indulged in a very small piece, this guinomi thrown off the hump in Meeth clay, which is a red Devon clay and fires black in Nic’s kiln. I am taking part in his woodfiring workshop\u00c2\u00a0this August; the remaining two huge (for me) flagons will go into his hogback nicely, they are small pieces by comparison to some of Nic’s;<\/p>\n

\"1nicplatter\"<\/a><\/p>\n

this huge platter made partly in an earth mould and taking four people to get it into the kiln is inspirational – not just for its size, but for its technique and Nic’s attitude in making something so huge and difficult. I love risky work.<\/p>\n

now I am back in my workshop for three weeks; lots of work to make which can be fired when I get back from Spain in May – and the memory of Nic’s work to inspire me – softer and looser is the way to go …<\/p>\n

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a hard frost this morning, rapidly being dispelled by the sun; I may have just lost my peaches, as the tiny peach tree has been in full blossom for over a week – time will tell. next year I will be prepared with fleece. it’s looking okay at this point, the frost, if any, had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,14,17,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anagama","category-art","category-flora-and-fauna","category-garden","category-pots"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4GKTU-15F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}