More of my older stuff, cos it's raining!

Pottery mask

Pottery mask front view

Another mask

these masks or helmets were
produced in stoneware, a couple of years ago. I got the idea from a magazine picture of an ancient antiquity that had been unearthed, it was flattened, but I thought I would make something that looked like what I thought the original would have looked like. They are about life sized and probably as heavy as a bronze one would have been!

Side view

Older work

well, whilst I was tidying up my workshop and studio, I came across some of my older work and thought that I would put it on the blog. It is funny how you forget some of the things you have produced even though you see them everyday!
 Some of the pottery pieces are created from extrusions,which I made the templates for and then just extruded the clay and created something from the resulting shapes.
 The millenium Green Man took ages because of all the life size acorns I had to produce to go around the outside! The two portraits are painted and Gilded on glass, Augusta also has the glass Frosted using an old Victorian method using bone glue to physically tear the glass off certain areas, doing it is a bit scary!
Then there are a couple of small pottery pieces and a couple of walking sticks, which I make quite a lot of, mostly with antler handles or a mixture of antler and buffalo horn/rams horn.

Millenium Green Man

Extrusion

Extrusion

Extrusions

Extrusions

Augusta, painted and Gilded Glass

Girl, Painted and Gilded Glass

Redwood clock

Joined Hearts

Walking Sticks

Black Forest Clock

Managed to set the blog up!

I am quite pleased that I have managed to set the blog up and it seems to work, well had a bit of help from my offspring! they have to be good for something.
I thought i would post a couple of pics of some of my recent work, as I have just come back from a lovely (bit wet) fortnight in Cornwall.

I have been doing some wood turning lately and also making bespoke mirrors with yew frames, the bowl in the pic is made from zebrano which as you can see has a very beautiful grain and colouring. the mirror is one of the first I did and is quite large, I am doing some smaller ones at the moment so will put those up soon.

posts to follow!