Invitations

The invitations for the show at Galerie Besson have come!

"They Changed the World"

Also on the island of Bornholm we were lucky enough to see this unique sculptural work by Lenny Goldenberg - it was unveiled in the library of the local Business School on friday morning.
The small tablets with picture of famous inventors, thinkers, mathematicians etc, can be removed and replaced with a selection of others, which are stored in a drawer in the rear of the pillar. The students can thereby influence and change the look of the work...

Round churches on Bornholm

Round churches on Bornholm

During the weekend we visited three of the four medieval round churches on Bornholm. From the top: Olsker, Nylars and the greatest of the four, Østerlars.
They have been a great source of inspiration to Nina, as can be seen on www.ninahole.com

Exhibition

Anne Mette Hjortshøj, Lenny Goldenberg and Nina Hole at the opening










Salt-glazed piece by Anne Mette















Nina Hole's houses

Bornholm

This weekend I went to the island of Bornhom to help set up our exhibition - "Ud af Ilden" - "Out of the Fire". Work by Nina Hole, Ann-Charlotte Ohlsson, Anne Mette Hjortshøj and myself.
The exhibition was in Rasch's Pakhus on the Store Torv in Rønne. We set up the show on friday and then had time to see a bit of Bornholm before the opening on Saturday afternoon.


Tall thrown forms - Priscilla Mouritzen - those on the left porcelain, on the right, stoneware


Two of my bowls (with celadon spots) with Ann-Charlotte's celadon pieces


Flat porcelain form -Priscilla Mouritzen

The workshop building at Guldagergaard

Skælskør harbour seen from the bus stop at six o'clock in the evening.

Bowls

Although I usually raw fire in the wood kiln I am bisque firing these bowls to lessen the chances of any of them getting broken during transport down to Guldagergaard for the firing in the Bourry Box kiln - the Skælskør Express!

Hennie Meyer blocks

Hennie Meyer blocks, originally uploaded by woodfirer.

Last picture of Hennie Meyer's blocks - this one of the newly sworn-in President of South Africa - Kgalema Motlanthe

Decorating

Hard as it is to get back to work after nearly a month in South Africa, I have a lot to get done before the firing next week of pinch bowls for the Galerie Besson show in London (opening the 17th November).
I am bisque firing them to prevent breakages on the trip down to Guldagergaard.
I have about thirty to decorate and will make another 20 -25.
Here are the first 6 done this morning...
This is the first photo on my blog taken with my beautiful new camera - Pansonic Lumix DMC FX12.
My previous camera fell out of my pocket and into the deep waters of the Vaal river nea Johannesburg. Although I retrieved it, it could do nothing, even after a week's careful drying. This was it's last picture:

Exhibition " Defining Moments" in Johannesburg

Last Saturday I saw this exhibition at the Thompson Gallery in Mellville, Johannesburg. It closes on the 16th October.

The participating artists were BILLY AND JANE MAKHUBELE (beaded ncekas), JURGEN SCHADEBERG (photography), SUSAN WOOLF (sculpture), JOHANNES MASWANGANYI (sculpture), BEVERLEY PRICE (neckpieces) and ROY NDINISA (woodcuts)


These cloths, "ncekas" by Billy and Jane Makhubele, convey the presence of Mandela, by pattern and gesture alone.


The courtyard of the gallery

Hennie Meyer - Blocks at Clementina van der Walt's gallery

Hennie told me that these small wall mounted blocks (8 X 8 x 8cms) were inspired by seeing the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin covered in snow.
The images on them are sometimes faces from current South African political life, or more abstract patterns.
I now have two of them and will mount them on the wall in a way which allows more to be added.....
One of my blocks is on the right in the second row from the bottom.

Opening of the "Tea and Biscuits" exhibition in Cape Town

It was great to be able to attended the opening of this exhibition on the last day I was in Cape Town.Here are the three Cape Town "veterans" of the Denmark/South Africa Ceramic Project - who spent 5 weeks in 2001 working at Guldagergaard in Denmark - Andile Dyalvane, Clementina van der Walt and Lisa Firer.







Gallery owner Clementina van der Walt and ceramist Hennie Meyer
















Clementina's cups and saucers and Lisa Firer's cake plate

(Note Clementina's head reflected upside down!)



Shoe fashions at the opening

From Cape Town

Today I am in Cape Town after nearly three weeks in the depths of the South African "Platteland".
I visited The Old Biscuit Mill in Woodstock and saw Clementina van der Walt's new Gallery where preperations were underway for the opening of the exhibition "Tea and Biscuits" tomorrow afternoon. We will be there!
Also saw the new gallery of Andile Dyalvane's Imiso group and some beautiful new pale pots by him.
Interior of Imiso Gallery at the Old Biscuit Factory


Wonderful gourd-shaped pot by Andile Dyalvane in Imiso Gallery


Clementina looking at works by Hennie Meyer, Lisa Firer, and herself.