If you’re a fan of Art Nouveau and haven’t caught it so far, I can highly recommend the BBC4 series Sex and Sensibility: The Allure of Art Nouveau. I watched episode 2 last night and really enjoyed it. It charted the history of British Art Nouveau from Aubrey Beardsley with his Japanese influenced, racy ink [...]
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Art Nouveau
Posted in Inspiration, Uncategorized, tagged art history, art nouveau, arts and crafts, BBC4, TV recommendations on April 2, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Sources of inspiration
Posted in Inspiration, new ideas, tagged decoration, design, Ireland, photographs on September 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Not having a class at the moment doesn’t stop me being inspired by things I see out and about. I was in Ireland last week and visited the Neolithic burial mounds of Newgrange and Knowth, which have some really impressive stone carvings. It’s amazing to think how old they are! I also saw this lovely [...]
Meeting the Professionals
Posted in Events, Inspiration, Professional Potters, tagged ceramics, potfest, pottery studios, Professional Potters on May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I spend a happy few hours at Potfest Scotland on Saturday. This is the 3rd year I’ve been to the event and it was interesting to see what has changed and what hasn’t. There was a very noticeable increase in the number of people with jewellery on their stalls (I guess because of the economy), [...]
