Springfield Pottery Hartland

Some Individual Pots for the Exhibition

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:37:18 +0000

jug influenced by the Omar Kahyam

Please try and come along to the exhibition which is being held at the Corinium Museum in Cirencester from September 4th-25th

Jug standing 15" high persian blue glaze

one of Frannie's slab bottle vases about 6"h.

Frannie's boxes with an embossed lid

Who is the potter pray and who the pot?

sgraffitto fish plate about 15"

who's for tea?

There are over a hundred pots and the fine prints of Merlyn Chesterman’s wood cuts. Its an exhibition not to be missed.

small octagonal plate of Frannie's in the new black glaze

CORINIUM MUSEUM EXHIBITION preparations

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:54:18 +0000

: Selecting the pots, we are setting up the exhibition this friday September 3rd

: Very exciting, P.V. Saturday 4th

Pots influenced quite a bit my my time living in Iran and Frannie has a new black glaze

finally packed up

BOOK LAUNCH ON SUNDAY 5th SEPTEMBER 2010

philipleach — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:59:09 +0000

A very special meal !! Japanese Chef, Mr Tadamichi Ota cooking, using Springfield pots at Claridges

philipleach — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:07:15 +0000

Using bowls and plates made by Philip & Frannie

oishi desu!!

there were 10 special guests. We sent a variety of different sized bowls sushi dishes and 10 individual tea- bowls. The Japanese chef decided which food looked best in each dish

the chefs at work

Iron Chef, Mr Tadamichi Ota

Kayo Onari approached us to ask us if we were willing to supplypottery for this special meal. Kayo-san domo arigatou.

Exmoor Oare Church to Culbone Church & back

philipleach — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:06:09 +0000

: Oare Church

: Peacock Butterfly

: a strange fungal growth

: Culbone Church

: I think John is somewhere up on the right

: Checking the GPS on Porlock Weir

Porlock Weir

Robber's Bridge Oare Valley

Robber's Bridge looking East

Just a great day for a walk on Exmoor.

CORINIUM MUSEUM EXHIBITION CIRENCESTER

philipleach — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:07:58 +0000

Brief interlude

philipleach — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:26:43 +0000

Frannie & Philip caught on camera at Hartland Carnival. photo M.C.

frannie's spectacular carnival window

HARTLAND GARDEN SHOW 2010 Frannie’s big success

philipleach — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:14:04 +0000

Hartland Garden Show is a major annual event with a great array of amazing entries and on the day of judging as wellas the Hartland Town Band there is also a serious sporting competition for ages 5 - 65 yrs.

: Cup Winners

Carefully grown and presented with care

These are parsnips

Its a little different to our veg box

But look at this. Frannie has 1st prize for her ' Winter Scene' judge's comment'Good use of perspective- the path takes the eye right into the picture.

Class 2 Scotch Eggs - First Prize Frannie again!! Fantastic Judge's comment 'Even & neat, cooked well- egg slightly underdone tho' yummy! S/meat only just cooked - watch this. added note also tasted delicious too P.

The weather was fine, the Show a great succes and well done Frannie.

Hallo there, yer’s a nice dish

philipleach — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:56:00 +0000

16"

detail 1

detail 2

close-up on rim

This dish is destined for an exhibition in the Corineum Museum, Cirencester which will open in early September. My blogging has been a little rusty, our computer crashed- that sounds dramatic doesn’t it actually it gave out a pathetic ticking sort of fart and stopped.

Philip and Frannie day out cont.more Leach Pottery and Pendeen

admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:55:15 +0000

: trip down memory lane age 6-7 I used to wonder into the w/shop and watch Bill Marshall and Scott Marshall throwing Scott had an amusing cartoon of a potter throwing such a big pot that he ended up inside it

: the firings i knew they went on all night- wouldn’t it be great to fire the kiln once more??

: boom boom in the thick foggy sea air. Pendeen fog horns

: Pendeen Light

The mechanism of the old lights was so beautiful all those prisms floating in a moat of mercury

We had a delicious very reasonably priced lunch at THE GURNARD’S HEAD before scrambling down the cliff at Pendeen

AND now you are going to have to guess what this is