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a devonshire pottery a devonshire pottery tales of the goings on at hollyford pottery near the tiny village of stockleigh english in devon england monday 13 february 2017 happy birthday pippin happy birthday to our beautiful little daughter pippin we love her beyond words posted by doug fitch at 23 57 10 comments thursday 4 february 2016 a caravan and a kitchen thank you for all the lovely comments on my last post i was surprised that anybody is still out there reading this blog i d neglected it so badly this is our temporary workshop an old rather dilapidated caravan in the garden of our house this picture was taken a couple of weeks ago there s no snow at the moment thankfully we re using this as a place to work while we await baby s arrival so that we don t have to drive to our usual workshop fifteen miles away that said we have to go there tomorrow to glaze a batch of pots and pack the electric kiln i ve been making piggy banks for the new craftsman gallery in mayfair i don t enjoy making them really but they sell very well and just at the moment we need to think about feeding an extra little mouth so if they sell i ll keep making them i can t wait to get on to making some proper pots again hannah has managed to keep making a little bit but the baby is due in six days and now she s beginning to feel very tired she has a big order that is to be sent to japan in may so she s trying to get as much of it done as possible before baby comes i have been rather distracted from potting by trying to get the house sorted out this is a picture of the kitchen just before we bought the house i ve been rebuilding it over the past few days there s still a fair bit to do i ve been burning the midnight oil trying to get it done i m revamping all the old cabinets and making new doors the worktop is slate a lick of paint to all the wooden paneling has made a huge difference and most importantly of all shows the pots off a treat so in the forthcoming days week or two weeks we two will become three it s surreal and exciting i can t wait to meet our new little son or daughter i wonder who it is what it looks like i ll keep you posted posted by doug fitch at 22 49 6 comments monday 25 january 2016 in case you re still wondering we did it well it s nearly nine months since last i blogged some of you may wonder what happened i didn t blog about our magical wedding day life just took over it was amazing beyond words full of magic and bursting with love and happiness so all these months later here are some pictures hannah and her dad leaving by the front door on the way to the church and here are hannah s mum and dad and sister and bridesmaid sarah i m so happy to be a part of this lovely family it feels like they have always been my family my beautiful bride she looked gorgeous it brings tears to my eyes to see these pictures again the vows we were married by our friend bob he recently retired as canon of westminster abbey the little kirk in this remote scottish village must have provided something of a contrast to the scale and bustle of westminster abbey this is straight after the service we look so happy we still are so happy these are the jugs that we made for the church filled with flowers and greenery by our friends hannah s necklace made by our jeweler friend natalie vardey these are seventeenth century slipware sherds set in silver natalie also made our rings and completely restyled and rebuilt the dress that hannah had bought from a charity shop in edinburgh we didn t want a lavish wedding we couldn t afford one but we didn t want one anyway we wanted a day surrounded by all of our most special friends it was just how we d dreamed it might be but better our friends just made it quite amazing they traveled from all over even all the way from the states it made us feel quite overwhelmed that people would travel so far to share our special day after the service we were piped through the village in the rain from the church to the village hall for the reception our cub group formed our guard of honour the rain didn t matter at all in fact it gave me the opportunity to shelter my beautiful wife safely from the elements with a brolly which in my opinion adds atmosphere to the picture everybody brought food so we had the most wonderful banquet our friends amanda helen and elinor had decorated the hall it took our breath away when we arrived this jug was made by hannah and decorated by me we sold it on ebay afterwards to help pay for a few special days away on honeymoon it was a bittersweet day for my mum my poor dad was too poorly to come so although she was happy to see us wed she missed him as we all did this picture was taken a few days later in my dad s care home we took a few days honeymoon nearby so that we could visit him in our wedding clothes as you can imagine it turned a few heads in the care home and brought a lot of smiles from the residents i m so glad we got this photograph sorry this post jumps about a bit in chronology here we are at the front of the church having just signed the register behind us are the castle douglas feral choir who filled the church with the most beautiful music all unaccompanied they sang hannah down the aisle with a specially composed piece written by the choir leader ali burns and they sang us back out again cookie the singer from my old band the love daddies recited a special poem which had been one of our songs and our friend hazel did a reading my boys were our witnesses which was really special here they are with their girlfriends at the reception this is my best man frank who did a sterling job i don t get the chance to see so much of him as we re in scotland a lot at the moment and he lives in cornwall so i miss him there are so many great pictures i could put on here but it seems blogger won t allow any more on this post it s wonderful looking at them again the following video is our friend gwen s band the misdemeanors performing at our reception they put a poem that i wrote for hannah you can find it on an earlier post to music and performed it as a lovely surprise it seems like such a long time ago now so much has changed since then we have bought a fantastic house and most exciting of all in two weeks time or possibly before after we are expecting this little wiggler to enter our lives i am the luckiest man in the world posted by doug fitch at 22 42 9 comments friday 1 may 2015 it s wedding time well it s nearly upon us it seemed like our wedding day wasn t for ages and before we knew it it s suddenly a day away we ve been working so hard trying to get everything finished so that we can take a few days off on top of an already heavy workload we decided we would make all the champagne flutes we ve decorated them simply using our potter s stamps side by side on the front and a heart on the back these are the stamps the flutes will be a little keepsake for folks to take home if they d like to the day before yesterday our first guests arrived all the way from america hollis and kimberly who we met when we travelled to cape cod a few years ago to do a workshop demo it was lovely to see them we are so touched that folks would travel so far to share our special day yesterday we finally finished making although today we still had to go to work to tidy up and to get the last of the champagne flutes glazed and in the kiln they ll be out of the kiln hot on saturday morning this picture shows hannah decorating the last pot i made as an unmarried man it s also the last pot hannah decorated as an unmarried woman we ll keep that one this is the jug from my last post all finished with a little sidekick that i ve made for hannah we stood in the garden tonight and watched the sunset it was spectacular away on the distant galloway hills there is still snow this place is beautiful this is my best man andrew better known to many as frank he arrived this afternoon with his family it s lovely to see them here if not a little surreal tomorrow my mum and brother and neice arrive and my boys with their girlfriends and lots of other friends and family sadly my dear dad is too poorly to make the journey so my sister has stayed home to see that he has everything that he needs he ll be very much missed but will be in my thoughts we have a rehearsal at 4pm in the church tomorrow evening then a meal in the local pub before hannah and i say goodnight and she heads home with her mum and dad the next time i will see her will be as she walks down the aisle to become my wife she will be beautiful she is beautiful i love her so much my life is amazing with this woman in it i m the luckiest man in the world posted by doug fitch at 00 48 11 comments saturday 18 april 2015 the love jug before hannah and i got together we had been best friends for years we d been to the states together to do demonstrations made numerous pots together in each others workshops fired wood kilns together looked out for each other looked after each other talked to each other about slips and glazes and brown pots and issac button and medieval jugs in the v a in wonderful phonecalls that would last for hours a couple of years ago i came to scotland to visit her she had made a big jug which was sitting there still wet on the shelf when i looked at it i could see the culmination of influences from the tradition that we celebrate but more than that i could see a synthesis of the two of us it s difficult to explain and i don t know if this will make sense but upon seeing that pot it struck me that we had grown together so much in our work because we had grown together so much in our lives we are obsessed and focussed potters we live for our art it is all of us this jug was both of us a shared perception it seemed so clear to me that there was no way that we couldn t be together so i told her i told her that one day this pot would be on the top table at our wedding she didn t believe me or was actually completely freaked out and sent me home to devon i knew full well that we were in each others heads and hearts and that we had become a massive part of one another s conscience we made our pots for each other it was like flirting with clay i knew i was in love with her and i also knew that she was with me we didn t speak for a few days that hadn t happened in years but the silence and the distance were so important this was what life would be like without each other i sat in my workshop and thought about that pot and wrote a poem i ve never written a poem for anyone before and it s no great literary work but i saw that jug as an analogy for us and it represented in my eyes our at oneness i wrote it out in my best handrwriting and posted it to her we spoke on the phone we laughed we cried i told her i loved her then i asked her to marry me a very shocked hannah asked for some time to get her head around it i asked her to keep the jug for me and again promised that one day i would decorate it for our wedding two weeks tomorrow we will be married the jug with its love poem will be on our top table and hannah will be beside me as my wife i love her completely great poetry it isn t but it says it all our wholeness our consciousness proclaimed within a brown clay jug our earth our clay our harmony as integral as marl and grog our slip our glaze our synthesis layered shining bright and bold our kiln our fire our burning light our tale of love set in stone posted by doug fitch at 07 18 7 comments friday 17 april 2015 busy busy hello folks with just a little over two weeks to go until our wedding things are as busy as ever in the workshop we ve a lot to do if we re going to be able to take any time off and we re determined that we ll get a few days away on honeymoon so we re putting in the hours at the moment hannah has been remaking the orders that she lost during our glaze troubles she s an extraordinary production thrower and has almost completed the making now she has several miles of sliptrailing to do to finish these pieces we worked late last night the racks are almost full i ve been making more of these candle holders larger than the last ones i made i ve also been scratching away at another sgrafitto jug for our wedding but that s a pot with a story so i ll save it for another post there are bisc fired pots piled everywhere we had hoped to fire the wood kiln next week but we re postponing the firing until after the wedding it s glorious weather so we ll be drying pots in the sunshine again today we re away to london on saturday to visit ceramic art london back later happy friday all posted by doug fitch at 09 31 5 comments friday 10 april 2015 wedding jug number 2 we re settling back in to work in our scotland workshop it s been glorious weather hence the pots drying in the sunshine these pots are the order that i ve made three times the last two batches failed due to a glaze flaw which we think we may well have resolved so we have our fingers crossed today i finished scratching this jug which will be used in the church for flowers on our wedding day hannah made the jug and i decorated it there are only three weeks to go until our big day all very exciting posted by doug fitch at 23 08 2 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom blog archive 2017 1 february 1 happy birthday pippin 2016 2 february 1 january 1 2015 9 may 1 april 4 march 4 2014 36 september 7 july 1 june 1 april 1 march 6 february 10 january 10 2013 32 december 4 october 1 september 9 august 2 april 9 february 7 2012 104 december 1 november 13 october 4 september 3 august 5 july 1 june 4 may 20 april 8 march 14 february 15 january 16 2011 57 december 4 november 6 october 1 september 6 august 5 july 6 june 2 may 2 april 6 march 4 february 6 january 9 2010 118 december 4 november 15 october 7 september 5 august 8 july 4 june 8 may 10 april 16 march 9 february 15 january 17 2009 142 december 8 november 15 october 2 september 5 august 11 july 9 june 9 may 12 april 10 march 18 february 18 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