Been a busy year for me in every way (hence the lack of blogging - but then I do tweet and these now appear on the front page of the blog). I seem to be ‘flavour of the month’ at the moment and have been involved in a lot of exhibitions - in April/May I had a very successful show at blas&knada in Stockholm. You can download the invite (bit late I know) here if you like.

Then I showed with the Bluecoat at Collect and amongst other sales, sold one of my Spode Casseroles to the V&A. The Bluecoat Collect exhibition now continues back in Liverpool in

Collect(ed) - connection linking with the City of Radicals programme of exhibitions and events.

I am in my first Cumbrian Show for seven or eight years at Rheged near Penrith in 12.

The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh has a number of my plates for its exhibition Thinking Horizontally - Thinking Out of the Box. Invite from here. (Paid a visit to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s inspirational garden Little Sparta in the Pentland Hills between Edinburgh and Carlisle on my way home last Friday after delivering my work to the Gallery. I can’t recommend the garden highly enough - if you ever have a chance to visit it - make sure you make time to go.)

I also have work in the exhibition Ceramic Cities, dialogues in design at the Potteries Museum in Stoke on Trent.

Then Flow Gallery in London has an exhibition Blue opening on June 15. Invite, featuring the wonderful work of Caroline Slotte on the card from here.

Finally - for now - work is currently on its way to the Bernardaud Foundation at Limoges in France, for the exhibition le décor est planté opening June 21.

Studio work is focussing on new/old plates which I have been collecting from ebay/junk shops for some years now. I’m particularly enamoured by the cracked, crazed and broken ones. I’m working on a Willow for Wei Wei just at the moment. It will be one of the pieces going to Bergen for the exhibition Ting Tang Trash - Upcycling in Contemporary Ceramics, an outcome of research project art value at KHIB.

Working on my essay for the catalogue these next few days too....

All for now..