Weybridge Pottery starts to go to craft fairs and sell pots
2004 to 2020
In 2004 I took early retirement and decided to do more with all my hobbies.
I started to go to Farnham monthly market, setting up a table and selling pots. Other potters joined Weybridge Pottery as apprentices.
The rhythm of monthly fairs forced me to make many more pots and develop new glazes and shapes
These are a few pots from each year. Not all new designs became regular pots, but many were developed over the years
2020
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Bowl with catherine wheel design
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2019
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Bee hotel for solitary bees. Most bees in England are solitary bees
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Pendants
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Gold fish bowl. The fish is real gold, fired at 700C
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Swoopy gravy jug
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Swoopy jug
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Sugar bowl
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Tea pot
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Casserole Jag Mark II lid
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Small dish in Emma box
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2018
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Soap dish
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Lily vase. Made in two thrown pieces, welded together. With generous faux drip down side
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Coupe plate, with apple sponge
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Espresso mugs 100ml
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Soap dish and electric shaver dryer (drips back into sink)
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Mug. The bottom of my mugs have a hole to drain water when in dishwasher.
If stacked on the righ hand side of top shelf on dishwasher,
and the carton of my face is facing you, then the hole is in the right place for draining,
and the handle is tucked away bottom drain hole
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3 narrow necked Vases
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Baby footprint. Nephew Ed had twins, and this cheese platter has both of them
(they are not identical, so it is possible to know which is which)
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Flower pot with decent sized water resevoir
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2016 - 2017
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Vases with shadow
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Sugar jar Copper red blue and Tiefblau
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Olive oil dipper
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茶碗 Chawan tea bowl and box.
The box has the word "Major" in the 4 types of Japanese writing, Japanese is written in 4 scripts.
Katakana and Hiragana are the two main ones used to represent syllables.
My name Major is メジャー in Katakana (a phonetic representation used for names, roughly “Mei Jah”),
or せんこう is Major in Hirigana (a noun, as in “studying a pottery major” ).
Then there is Kanji, or the traditional characters. 主要 is Major (as in Major General) in Kanji.
Japanese also use the Romaji alphabet, so if they do not want to translate a western word, they will just use the Romaji version
(for instance IBM will appear just as it does in the west).
The 4 sides of the box have the 4 scripts the Japanese use, here writing “Major” in Katakana, Kanji, Hiragana and Romaji.
More information on the Chawan in a box project
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Baby jugs with Anenome decoration
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2016 tea set Barium blue with Ilmenite
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2014
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In 2014 Kerrie Harrison, an old friend who lives in Sydney, Australia, came up with the idea of decorating plates with this very famous Banksy image.
To be practical for ceramics I had to modify it slightly. I then reached out to my friends online to think of other idea's in the same vein.
On facebook, they suggested themes that I then researched and produced.
100 sets of the 6 rifs on the Banksy theme were then printed by Trynner transfers in Stoke
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Cricketer bowled out by love. Idea from Ian Florance in Henley
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Darts player finding love on the board. Idea from Ian Florance in Henley |
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Dinasaur considering love to eat
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Pregnant woman searching for love. Idea from Ed Thomas in London |
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Volleyball players batting love back and forth. Idea from Keith Holding in Spain
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2011 - 2013
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2013 windproof ashtray
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2011 Raku. The spherical vase is taken straight from the raku gas kiln with long metal tongs and thrown into a bin of sawdust.
When the sawdust burns the smoke stains the pot under the patern of glaze. I've polyurathaned the result, to seal the pot and decoration
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2010
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Spherical big belly pot. Thrown in 2 sections.
The Barium blue eggshell glaze on the outside with Ilmenite stripes. The fringe of the ilmenite comes out a range of colours
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Small gravey jug... fits in microwave
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Dog bowl. The slope on the outside is to prevent accidents when stepping on the bowl and tipping it up (almost impossible).
The ribs on the inside are to help the dog use the tongue to lick up water/food
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By this stage I was buying plates from Tesco's and decorating them with Poppies
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Swoopy jug. The curves from the spout to the top of the handle are the essential design feature
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This is my version of the Arrow pot
(celadon glazed porcelain). The Celadon flows into the lines on the belly of the pot.
The Sir Percival David Collection
(room 95 in the British Museum) has the original.
The Ancient Chinese warriors would play a drinking
game with this pot. You threw small arrows into it,
but if you missed you had to take another drink
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2008
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Bonsai dish with merbau stand
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Lizzard insectorium. Slippery celadon to keep insects inside, holes to hide from lizard
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Various pots... but first coffee bean jar with narrow neck for holding, and a pouring spout inside under lid
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Various pots, including Clive's Head
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Tagine
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My first coffee set commission
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2007
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Dish with high foot. Thrown in two sections
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Interlocking cat bowls
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Amphora in stoneware. Thrown in two sections
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small footed dish with Ilmenite stripes
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Small bowl with Tiefblue drips... early experiment with over glazes
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2004 - 2006
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Hamada style dish
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2005 Mark II Jag (casserole lid)
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2004 Plate with Poppy design
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2004 Vase with Poppy design
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