The Hub-my studio

In August 2018 I got the keys for my new studio. For any of you that have met me you will know I had been looking for a new studio space for over 2 years. After searching a wide area my studio happens to be a beautiful 6 minute commute through Puddletown forest. 

​The studio is amongst a range of outbuildings that have been converted into workshops. That open grey door is my studio. The view in the background stretches for miles. A continuously changing and colourful farming landscape. I am amongst a range of friendly businesses consisting of a pie maker, iron worker, stone carvers-Stone Form Design, bath restorers and Dorset Coffee Company. An aroma of roasting coffee beans fills the air. This week an artist has also moved into a spacious workshop. 

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During August I built shelving systems and started to unpack boxes of ceramic resources and my own sculptures. It was the ideal time to move as I mainly run air drying workshops for tourist venues during the school holidays. At the beginning of September my kiln moved in. This is an image through the spy hole of my kiln. That white light in the centre is the heat as it is over 800 degrees in the kiln cooling down after a firing.

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The image on the right is of a section of the studio with my newly built shelves. It is getting organised with a shelf for glaze ingredients, two for stamps and textures. There is a shelf of workshop samples, space for my own work plenty of shelves for your work. These are at present full as it nears Christmas. The kiln is in another corner and I have a little kitchenette with a sink for washing equipment. It also holds the vital elements of any studio. ( A kettle and a radio) I am currently looking for a permanent table in the centre to create my own work on.

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I am looking forward to new possibilities, space to work on my own ceramics and develop ideas. I am starting to develop workshops for next year. I am thinking of what can be achieved in the future. I am looking at building more shelves! Watch this space. 2019 is looking at being an exciting year. 

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