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Updating website on 19th August 2008

Well what a summer! We shall all have webbed feet, like my geese who love this weather. And so, too, do our trees, they are really starting to look like a woodland. I just hope that, with this summer being no better than last summer, we shall at least have another glorious richly coloured autumn

I repeated the Trade Fair experience this last April. A very enjoyable weekend in Bath, at which I introduced my new floral work including the Jacobean influenced pottery all of which drew a lot of favourable attention.

While I was delivering some pottery to the National Trust gallery at Cotehele House, near Plymouth, I learned that the house is a Jacobean House. I suggested that I could produce some jugs especially for Cotehele House gallery and the idea sparked off an enthusiastic conversation which culminated in a splendid morning walking round that wonderful house during which I found a jacobean motif that would work well on jugs. There are some extraordinarily rich hangings in the bedrooms, much of it in crewel stitch work. It was in the White Bedroom that I found my inspiration. I made a few sketches and went home to my studio. So now the National Trust gallery at Cotehele House has a collection of jugs, made especially for the gallery and available no-where else.

I am about to present my work at the Hidden Art Design Fair at another Jacobean house - Godolphin House near Helston - for which I have been working hard these last few weeks. I shall add a picture from that to this site next week.

The motif and three of the jugs available only from the National Trust gallery at Cotehele House