Kecskemét, Spode, Topiary and Willow Trees
2 August 2010
I’ve been working on my <a href="http://paulscottgateshead.wordpress.com/">commission for the Shipley Art Gallery</a> over the past weeks, but in mid-July spent some 10 days at the <a href="http://www.icshu.org/about.htm">International Ceramic Studios </a>in Hungary, teaching a <i><a href="http://www.cumbrianblues.com/workshops.html">Vitrified Print</a></i><i> </i>course. It was a busy place - <a href="http://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/RimasVisGirda">Rimas Visgirda</a>, <a href="http://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/BillieJeanTheide">Billie Theide</a>, <a href="http://www.stevenmontgomery.net/">Steve Montgomery</a>, <a href="http://www.marcleuthold.com">Marc Leuthold</a>, <a href="http://www.orlaithross.com/">Orlaith Ross</a> were all there - with many others... Check out the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/International-Ceramics-Studio-Kecskemet-Hungary/111911072158918">Kecskemét Facebook page</a> for more info.
Rimas and I taught a Ceramics and Print course together at the <a href="http://www.ceramic.dk">International Ceramic Research Centre in Denmark</a> quite a few years ago, it was great to catch up on things. At the end of my teaching I managed to put together some new trees for firing in the salt kiln at some future date. Incorporated some of Rimas’ granite and decomposed feldspar in the clay body, so it’ll be very interesting to see the results (eventually)..
Some pics from the Kecskemét journey below....