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s I’m writing this, it’s Christmas
A week, which comes with not only
time off to spend with family but
also time away from work.
Although I’m lucky enough to love what I do,
Jacqui Atkin Simon Shaw this enforced time away from my computer
Nautilus shell Traditional jug
p34 p8 screen will be a nice break! The overseas
distribution of ClayCraft can start in any
country at any time, which means that our
content can’t be too overtly seasonal. This
issue, for example, could go on sale somewhere We are surrounded by things that
in June. As you might imagine, this can make are ‘made’ and have become so used to seeing
juggling our projects a bit difficult; obviously, them that we accept their presence in our lives
we want to cater for our readers whose calendar without thinking about how they got there.
Linda Bloomfield Tracey Parsons is in sync with our own, while not making the Everything has been created, adapted and
Refiring glazes Thrown bottles
p18 p74 theme so specific that they don’t work for improved on. Even the mass-produced plastic
others. However, I know that potters are very tat that seems to be filling the world was once
creative and are used to looking at one thing an original ‘first’– possibly even modelled in
47 PAGES OF PRACTICAL BUILDS and seeing another, so I hope that if you have clay. Yet we’re losing the ability to make things
been reading the past couple of issues in the from scratch, craft skills are being lost, and
middle of the summer, you can adapt our creativity stifled at a young age. It’s vitally
PINCH, COIL, SLAB AND THROW Issue 35
Nautilus shell projects to something to suit you! We do try to important that this is addressed before it’s too
GARDEN
Pinched & coiled
give alternative uses or ideas whenever we can. late to get them back.
PINCH, COIL, SLAB AND THROW
Our visit to Keith Brymer Jones was As Keith said, the only thing about modern
fascinating. I’ve met him several times but life that a caveman would recognise is a bowl.
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GLAZING always with time constraints, so being able to Wherever you are in the world (whatever the
spend a few hours with him was a treat. He is time of year!), stop for a moment and look at
heavily invested in spreading the message that what you’re creating. Appreciate the skill, time
F
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you don’t need to be academic to be a success, and love that have gone into it, and be proud
STUDIO
VISIT and that crafts and creativity are vitally that you are contributing to a craft that has had
Keith Brymer
Jones PLUS: Large-scale challenge important, both in terms of skills and mindset, meaning for millennia.
• Simple slumps; mould and
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and his enthusiasm – and emotions – are
On the cover this month is our nautilus catching. Despite trying very hard not to, I
project, which combines pinching and found myself responding in kind when his eyes
coiling to great eŒect. See page 34

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