ideas from the blog
Towards a sustainable aesthetic
What aesthetic would emerge if I were to fully embrace the need for environmental and ethical sustainability in my work?
What if?
What if? I suppose I’m happiest when I’m trying something new. It’s one of the reasons I choose hand-building over
Impressions
It was the coldest, bleakest part of this last winter. That was when my right arm was gripped with such intense pain that I had to stop working with the clay. I was not happy! But it turned out that this was an opportunity to completely rethink my making process.
giving bowls / sharing bowls
The Giving Bowls have just raised over £350 for the Stroud District Foodbank. I’m delighted. They seems to have found a real purpose in life, and their development is a story that is still giving life lessons to me.
Clay, nature and us – an interview
An interview with Grant about his creative life and the 2023 exhibition.
The story of Ecos
Ecos is a sculpture about us and nature, telling the 5000 year story of how our changing relationship with nature has led to today’s ecological and climate crises, and how re-evaluating that relationship holds the key to the future; for us and our planet.
inspiration rocks
The other day I went in search of a beach that I last visited almost 20 years ago. It had
Poetry is not words
Poetry is not an arrangement of words, but a quality of openness, a distillation of experience and a refinement of
The persistence of impressions
If I can find a unifying theme for these last months’ travels it is stone. Red stone outcrops carved to