Water & Clay

Mami Wati (mother water)

This was one of my most enjoyable clay sessions ever. From start to finish she took me two hours to make - no planning, no scketches just going with the flow and I loved it. She's about 25cm high. I think I'll finish her off with green and blue oxides and only glaze parts of her.

February in Tomato

I have a lot, I mean bowls full and they're all beautiful - and I have more coming into sunny sweet ripe red everyday. I'm loving this :)

Monday Blues

One of many ellies at play at a waterhole

We were lucky enough to spend a weekend at a game lodge in the Waterburg (about 2 1/2 hrs north of Pretoria)
Today I'm back at my desk...gumph!

Wind Blown

"Tumble, tumbleweed, tumble through my hart..."

It feels like the South Easter hasn't let go for weeks. My garden is dried out, the Cape is dusty and everyone is feeling a bit frazzled, but in the quiet space of the pottery studio even that can be inspirational. I've been wanting to make this platter for a while with a beautiful photograph as reference but I kept on forgetting to bring it and in the end the drawing came straight from the heart and not the head.

Detail of the tumbleweed sketch

Fan Fare!

Hot summers day melty cream berry cheesecake celebrating my delightfully wonky candy colour cakestand... finally.

Sunshine In A Box

Sometimes you make your own happiness by passing it around :)

A Lot Of Nothing Is Good For The Soul

We spent the New Year here - in the middle of no-where; no water on tap, no ablution blocks, no cellphone reception, no people and guess what no stress...but a feast for the senses.

Aaaah - the sunsets

and truly 'Life of Pi' - phosphorescence in the waves

Breakfast West Coast style

A pair of breeding Oyster Catchers - we only realised this when discovering their egg after dropping a piece of flotsom we picked up - and then I had to look twice to make sure it was what I thought it was - 

Someone else was there too!

Amongst all that blue, some fire

The Meerkats (all thirteen of them) kept us under close observation the whole time

Just when you think everything is windswept and scrubby - look closer and the colour starts to pop

Life's a beach...and then some

Welcome back - I'm looking forward to 2013 and I'm expecting some magic :)