What I did in Mexico (Short version)

Here are some pictures from La Ceiba Grafica - where I launched into drawing on the wonderful white Veracruz marble stones with lithographic pencil, crayon and ink - all made at La Ceiba.
These were my subject matter:

Chev, Dodge and also a Ford, Trucks of La Orduna - the village around La Ceiba.

And here are some of the team - printer Daniel Barraza second from right.
We printed on hand-made paper, made at La Ceiba from old hotel linen.

Home from Mexico

Five weeks in Mexico have come to an end and I am back in Denmark with the need to fix dates for the Christmas Studio Sale, send out invitations, make more work, all in all get back into my stride instead of staring into space and feeling homesick for La Ceiba, Coatepec, Oaxaca and all the sounds and smells of Mexico....

La Ceiba, morning

Trip to Mexico

Next week I am leaving for Mexico -on a much anticipated and longed for return visit. I took part in the symposium "Simposio Internacional de Ceramica Escultoria Monumental" in Xalapa, Veracruz, in 2007.
After some days in Mexico City we are flying to Tuxtla, travelling to Palenque, and then making our way to Veracruz and Xalapa where we are due to stay and work at La Ceiba Grafica.

La Ceiba
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La Ceiba Grafica is housed in the ex-hacienda - La Orduna, just outside the town of Coatepec.

More German woodfirers

This is Katrin Otolski's kiln - she fires earthernware in Woserin, south of Rostock. I first saw her work in Gmunden in Austria years ago when we were both on the ceramic market there. I have one of her flower pots - now have brought home five more to enjoy.

Visit to Ute Dreist

We ended our day's tour of workshops at Ute Dreist.
She made dinner for 13 people - while we watched cranes flying overhead and listened to the green tree frogs in her apple trees.

Ute Dreist's Gallery with her own work - wood and salt fired


Ute beside her kiln

See her excellent homepage here: Ute Dreist

Woodfirers in Mecklenburg Vorpommern - Jens-Peter Planke

I have just returned from Mecklenburg Vorpommern in the North-Eastern part of Germany where I was attending a planning meeting about the Woodfire Conference to be held next year in September. The Conference, the first of it's kind in Europe, will be held at Bröllin Castle, which we also visited.
On tuesday we went on a tour of local woodfire potters workshops - Jens-Peter Planke was our guide and here are some pictures from his own home and workshop in Lenzen:

Pots from Jens-Peter's collection of old salt glazed and woodfired pots