Now into my third year of Bucks Open Studios… I’m joining in from 8th – 16th June and the studio will be open from 10am – 4pm, when anyone who would like to come and see my small (but complex) operation, will be made extremely welcome as well as sustained with various refreshments…

If the weather behaves, I shall turn the courtyard outside the studio into a temporary (and complimentary) tea room… Very peaceful, if you don’t count the hens…

Pots, jugs, bowls, mugs and large plates emerging from my kiln of late have been (subliminally, I can only imagine) inspired by picnics, sunny walks in the countryside, ambling along the canal and remembering my childhood holidays on the barges which used to frequent the local waterways…bliss…

My younger daughter, Zanna (14), must have gratitude and praise heaped upon her for her wonderful photography of my latest work – it’s all meant to feel lovely and summery and she has miraculously (given the abysmal weather) fulfilled everything I asked of her…

These are just a few glimpses of a bigger collection on the Gallery page, including the ever-present chickens who never stop inspiring me from just outside my studio …one even occasionally popping in to join me as I’m working on the wheel…