Butterfly Man

These are well used butterfly bowls from my collection. I love the chips in these bowls, they remind me that I make pots to be used. these chips represent breakfasts, dinners, salsa's, soups and porridges.

All the butterflies on my pots are real and drawn from a range of Lepidoptera encyclopedia I have collected over the years. I have always thought that one day some-one would come into the studio and recognize this. My lovely friend BB brought an Englishman by one day and just as he was leaving he looked up at a dusty old specimen I had hanging around on one of the shelves and said "That's a Meadow Argus!" So it was, his father was a botanist who traveled with his family to a Greek island to study butterflies.

off to Melbourne

This will be the last blog for a few days as we are going to Melbourne- there will be heaps of exciting things when I get back!

I have been in the studio glazing and firing trying to get work finished to take down with me- Deadlines are so presssing and ceramics don't respond to speed. Over the years I've learnt to slow down at the expense of many a cracked pot. Luckily they find a second life in the garden.


This firing I've made a tangle of "nest" bowls which are headed for Salmon Galleries in Sydney. Another tangle of little nests can be seen in the Gold Coast Ceramic Art Awards which open on the 7th of October. A few years ago I won a prize at these awards and I was so suprised that when I went up to the judge I started crying! He was so suprised that he started crying too! I resisted the impulse to make an Oscar style "I'd like to thank my agent..." type speach and slunk back to Trevor who had a good position outside the door where the food came out.


Some poppies are part of the "Flowering Art" exhibtion at Pomme in Mt Martha. I'm really looking forward to visiting Sue and her wonderful regional gallery. As a fellow country mouse I love seeing contemporary craft get a showing in the regions.

signing off for now....
Shannon