When I was scraping the outside of my first coil pot with an old veneer saw blade to break up

The mixture of matt and shiny white glazes and the way they interact reminded me very much of the birch

A week walking in the Yorkshire Dales and then a visit to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park with its new Sean Scully exhibition has left my senses thrilled and my thoughts questioning the ability of art to communicate even the vaguest inkling of past experience.