Pine needle and ceramic

Snape Maltings exhibition – Life and tide in paint and glaze’

Helen’s Shed is on the move again. Not literally, but for the second week in June I am putting on an exhibition with Alaco Doyle at the Quay gallery at Snape Maltings. Alaco paints in acrylics, producing work with many variations in style and subject. Amongst her work are coastal scenes on pieces of driftwood, graphical …

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Flying over Suffolk salt marsh; a different approach to glazing.

Glazes are such fun to experiment with. I decided that trying to capture the wind in the reeds required a less formal approach than normal. So rather than the detailed and exact effect I could have achieved with underglazes, I have gone for layering on-glazes for the wilder look needed to reflect the wind, estuary …

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