Art and Abart

In memory of Merran Esson who died prematurely last week When I applied at the National Art School in Sydney in 2010 I was asked to bring wo...

When I was in Dunedin I took a ceramics class and to my surprise I learned to love clay. Beginner students often experiment to see how thi...

Jim Cooper has just won the Portage Prize, the premier ceramics prize in New Zealand. Congratulations Jim! Jim Cooper (photo from the Ota...

The high winds blew the garden shed in last night and left the shed roof hanging over the back fence. As I moved boxes of ceramics this morn...

I put some terracotta plates on the web today: www.artsmitten.com

Music again. Music of course. Yesterday we unloaded the kiln. The good, the bad and the ugly. The ceramics that had been given up as failure...

Ceramics is magic. Just a bit of heat and smoke is all it takes to transform this: To this: