Weybridge Pottery

Weybridge Pottery

In 1984 we moved to Weybridge, and I set up my pottery in the garage. This was an era of experimentation with colour (and the birth of our 2 children)

1984 - 1999

1999 To Celbrate the 30th anniversairy og going to Exeter University all 4 families got one of these kitchen utensil holders
1993 Anna was just 6 when she helped me decorate this pencil holder for her
1991 to 1992 ... Set of stacking bowls each with a diferent English flower
Bowl # 7 ... Climbing rose which runs over side in and out of bowl
Bowl #6 ... Poppy
Bowl # 5 ... buddleia
Bowl # 4 ... Lilly
Bowl #3 ... Forget me nots
Bowl #2 ... dafs
Smallest of stacking bowls ... daisies
1990 To celbrate the 20th anniversairy of going to Exeter University I made a series of storage jars with cork tops. Each of the 4 families that met in 1970 got one of these jars

Finally, after 10 years of searching for a way to get some good colour, I tried using Harry Fraser white porcelain, with a white glaze, and then applying colour with transfers in a 3rd firing at 700C.
1988 Vase with 2 colour clay. white porcelain stained with blue copper oxide is slammed into a ball of plain white clay then thrown. The blue clay is lifted in rings, slowly merging with the white
1987 Vase with Iain's Daliahs
1987 Porcelain with Tenmoku glaze

1983 and 1984

Candle stick holder. My first attempt at getting colourful glazes was to use earthenware
This vase made out of white eathenware has a spectacular green glaze, which ran down the side nicely. But it was earthenware,and if you leave it on a wooden table with water in it, the water seeps through and leaves a damp patch.

This was the end of my experiment with earthenware... not functional, not really useful in my house