Large experimental piece fired
Finally finished working on my larger experimental piece and got it fired....I quite like the way cut out sections allow for glimpses on...
Email from Nicholas Gent - Pinxton Porcelain society.
HI SCOTT MORE THAN PLEASED TO HELP FIRST TO MY KNOWLEDGE THEY OMLY PRODUCED PORCELAIN SOFT PASTE THEY PRODUCED MAYBE POTTERY SAGGERS TO...
Derbyshire road trip to find painted views now!
So I wanted to see if I could find the romanticised scenes painted by Billingsley from the locations described on the ceramics I saw at...
Trip to Derby Museum to meet Curator
So on the back of some email enquiries, I have managed to get to Derby Museum to meet Spencer Bailey the curator. I have come to look at...
Pickfords House Museum
I visited a museum not far from the Derby museum called Pickfords house. Joseph Pickford, was an Architect who worked on Holkham hall in...
Joseph Wright
Interestingly there was an exhibition curated about industry in relation to the paintings of Joseph Wright and more modern...
Strange personal links from this visit..
Spencer went on to tell me more about the pottery work and the artist Joseph Wrights connection to the Coke family who lived in Brookhill...