Earth to Earth – The experience

by | Jun 29, 2010 | Earth to Earth

As an artists who claims to be inspired by the landscape I am often critical of myself for not getting out and drawing more strongly on my inspirations. The discipline of spending forty minutes walking through the landscape looking in a meaningful way has been...

Earth to Earth – A few hours later

by | Jun 8, 2010 | Earth to Earth

By nine o’clock at night this is all that was left of my Moon Jar. The wind and rain had in a single day reduced the pot to little more than a pile of soggy shards. The foot ring of the Jar was the all that remained. Up there the weather was really wild,...

Earth to Earth – The first rain

by | Jun 7, 2010 | Earth to Earth

The anticipation to see what effect the first rain had had on the unfired clay was motivating as I climbed the hill. From afar it was still in its entirety, a sphere against the laden sky. The Jar was wet through on one side, the side that had taken the weather....

Earth to Earth – A Wall Brown

by | Jun 5, 2010 | Earth to Earth, Making

Just below the summit of Carn Treliwyd is a field of bluebells. Today as I tramped my way through them each step sent flying a myriad of insects, among them Damselflies and a Wall Brown Butterfly. I took a different route to the summit and came across another line of...