More Random Ruminations

I was threading up my loom this morning, getting ready to weave my Complex Weavers Collapse, Pleat and Bump Study Group samples for our annual sample exchange, and I was listening to a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 5 performed by the Polish National...

Kuwait Impressions

Welcome to part 2 of my photos of Kuwait.  I was only there for a few days, and a few of the museums Patricia and I went to visit were shut.  The one I’m really sorry about was the Tareq Rajab Museum.  If I ever get back to Kuwait, which I sincerely hope I will,...

Kuwait visit

I am sitting in my hotel room overlooking the bay towards the old Kuwait City.  Through the heat haze and the dust raised by the building works in the city, mingled with the higher dust raised by troops in the desert, I can see the murky outlines of some stunning high...

The Art of Seeing Colour

Just recently, I woke up and looked out of the bedroom window onto a beautiful morning – low winter sun shining on the willow tree forming a tracery of orange against the clear blue sky…. Orange?!  Look again – yes!  Orange!  Bright, vivid, ineffably orange....

British Ceramics Biennale

This is a long post as I want to tell you about an important local event.  This weekend was the start of the British Ceramics Biennale in Stoke-on-Trent.  This initiative, in the home of British Ceramics, is a tremendous event both for ceramics in the UK and also for...