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1966 to 1970

Wheel thrown pots, 'bird forms' of recombined stoneware, a teapot with asymmetrical suspended handle and goblets made in new Central London workshop/gallery in Pimlico SW1

1973

First slip-cast tableware designed and made in the Pimlico Pottery in collaboration with Heal & Sons and the Design Council. Stacking dishes are hollow - form and colour coordinated in relation to other contemporary products.

1975

Two wheel thrown and pierced pieces in stoneware.

1977

From movement in clay to actually moving raw on-glaze oxides and firing them into zinc/tin glazes.

1978

Many mandala-like tiles were made to develop the technique and test colour combinations. Groups of 4, 9, 16, 25 and 36 tiles were simultaneously spun in frames and decorated.

1979

Having explored movement in clay and on-glaze decoration responding to form for a few years, this led me to attempt something else quite new; manipulating the clays using gravity as in the dish and over- laying coloured casting slips over spun fragments.