Friday 12 August 2011

Jug of the Month - August

A souvenir from Hatfield. Very controlled of me. Surrounded by pottery for four days and only one purchase. Bought this from Julie Turner on the last day. It's porcelain, about 3" tall, heavy with a delicate extruded handle.



"In a fast moving, disposable society where paper and polystyrene are common place the ceremony of tea and coffee drinking and the ceremonies surrounding food are increasingly lost. I seek to preserve and revive our interest in the ceremonial aspects of drinking; my work is designed to hold small amounts of very rich, expensive tea and coffee. They are deliberately delicate to force the user to slow their actions and savour the experience of drinking."