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I’m a potter, ceramic artist & tutor based in the heart of the Yorkshire Pennines (UK). Also @davidprestonphotography Click web link to shop on Etsy.

#black textured bowl with fractured rim. . . . . # #black textured bowl with fractured rim.
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I’ll be running another coffee pourover workshop o I’ll be running another coffee pourover workshop on Saturday 10 October @globearts, Holme Mills between Slaithwaite and Marsden 2-4pm
Intermediate / advanced throwers
A new vase today, 7lbs of clay. This will fire to A new vase today, 7lbs of clay. This will fire to black.
I’ll be bringing some of my Black Moss pieces alon I’ll be bringing some of my Black Moss pieces along to the @leedsindiemarket event @the.tetley.pub - LS10 1JQ, tomorrow (Sunday 27th 12-4)
#eventsinleeds #leeds #marsden #yorkshire #ceramics
A new kintsugi-style repair to a large vase. This A new kintsugi-style repair to a large vase. This clay is giving me a lot of headaches as the deep surface texture combined with an interior glaze (as the clay is porous) is creating tension during firing. So much so that the piece can’t withstand it. However it’s a great opportunity to use the kintsugi-style repair, which looks particularly good against the black clay. Repair resources from #sandyleaffarm 
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I love the patterns that emerge when I burnish thi I love the patterns that emerge when I burnish this clay. Hopefully I’ll get it fired in time for @leedsindiemarket on the 27th. If not I have more lovely black pieces to take 🙂
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On the wheel this morning 🙂 On the wheel this morning 🙂
A new “Carboniferous” bowl with the essence of dar A new “Carboniferous” bowl with the essence of dark forest. 
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This humble little bowl now lives in the permanent This humble little bowl now lives in the permanent collection at the National Coal Mining Museum. It looks quite modest, but the colour and pattern come from a completely natural accretion of ochre over a period of 4 months. I’ve been working with @ncmme_ over the last year or so, to incorporate iron ochre (a waste product from the mine water treatment plant at the museum) into my ceramics. More of that to come later but for now this bowl was selected by SPARK’s (Wakefield’s Cultural Education Partnership), Youth Arts Ambassadors (YAAs) as part of the Fixing Our Broken Planet programme from the @natural_history_museum 
It was chosen largely due to the honest, natural way the colour and pattern formed while it soaked for months in a lagoon of mine water at the museum; recycling and reusing a pollutant and waste product into something useful and aesthetically pleasing – win win!

Huge thanks to the staff at the museum for their help and support.
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A kintsugi-style repair on this piece, which took A kintsugi-style repair on this piece, which took exception to its 3rd firing and cracked through in multiple place. I suspect it’s because one of the cracks I threw into it went all the way to the rim. 
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New black bowls out of the kiln today. My goal is New black bowls out of the kiln today. My goal is to imply trees and dense forest, breaking to more random fractures near the top; I think this one is approaching what I’m looking for. 
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Loving these photos taken by @finsimpson_provocate Loving these photos taken by @finsimpson_provocateur at the recent @elladawsonfoundation event @globearts
So my last reel showed me emptying the clay traps So my last reel showed me emptying the clay traps under the studio sinks. After drying out a bit some recycling magic happens!
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One of the least glamorous and most stinky jobs in One of the least glamorous and most stinky jobs in the studio completed today @globearts Emptying the sink traps that keep clay out of the drains. 😷
Trimming a black textured bowl. Real time was abou Trimming a black textured bowl. Real time was about 8 minutes or so. It’s important not to trim where the texture is so more care is needed when throwing, which is even more difficult as the texture means you can’t touch the outside to support it when expanding the bowl shape. 
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It was an absolute pleasure to be at the @elladaws It was an absolute pleasure to be at the @elladawsonfoundation get together @globearts this afternoon doing some demos and letting people get hands on with clay. A beautiful day on the riverside at Globe Arts for this amazing charity.
A great big “thank you” to everyone that came to t A great big “thank you” to everyone that came to the @northernpottersassociation ceramics fair at Cromford Mills yesterday. It’s always lovely to meet people and chat about ceramics, whether you choose to buy or not (and let’s face it, with so many great potters there, choosing would have been difficult). Thanks to @armpitspottery and  @abyceramicsbyalan for being great stall neighbours and to the NPA organisers. Finally a big thank you to the @cromfordmills1771 staff for looking after us so well all day.
I’ll be at the @northernpottersassociation Summer I’ll be at the @northernpottersassociation Summer Ceramics Fair at the wonderful @cromfordmills1771 on Sunday 2nd August from 10am to 4pm. I’ll be showing my new range of work inspired by the coal mining history of Yorkshire and my recent work with the National Coal Mining Museum @ncmme_ 
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New plate out of the kiln today. Thanks as always, New plate out of the kiln today. Thanks as always, to @lisastubbs5 for the beautiful tetrapak illustration.
I’m running a coffee pour over workshop @globearts I’m running a coffee pour over workshop @globearts on 5th August from 6-8pm. For intermediate / experienced throwers, you’ll get to make a coffee pour over which you will be able to keep to trim and glaze in your own time later. Book via the Globe Arts Website at globearts.org.uk
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