Joyce Lee on sat 16 dec 00
Well, Paul, I just looked at your pots once again. I like all of them,
but your garden pots are EXACTLY what I want to be able to do at the
moment ..... and lots of them .... enough of them to have them jumbled
about just as you have yours.
Besides, I love Ireland and would have been ecstatic over experiencing
Swan Lake in Dublin.... and then stopping off at one of your incredible
hotel pubs with the satiny hardwood floors and perfectly unmatched
tables and comfortably worn sofas. I know, I know the smaller
neighborhood type pubs are probably more Ireland, but I adore the
atmosphere of the ones where the young, up and coming, chatty,
briefcased, laptopped types get together. So classy. Just sitting,
nursing some dark, warm ale that I would never order at home but which
suits my tastebuds exactly at that moment ... sitting, half-reading the
day's news ... sipping.... ahhhh ... and thinking, "if you knew me,
you'd like me.... but that's okay, because I just love you."
Of course, the teeny, dank and dark (for my tastes), family pub in a
minute village where we bought a coca-cola for a tweed-suited eight year
old one Sunday after church is one of my favorites, too. His proud
uncles and papa sat a few stools over trying to behave as if they didn't
know him, but were definitely as entertained as we were based on the
grins they exchanged as this very bright laddie told us his version of
the village gossip.... especially the part about That Bob Nash who has
all his money in cows and how those selfsame cows keep shatting all over
the hill where the boys go to play some game that I never did get the
hang of. Joyous memory.
Thanks for the journey, Paul. Gonna make me some of those garden
pots.... or at least try ..... nope, gonna make them.
Joyce
In the Mojave
Paul Taylor on mon 18 dec 00
Dear Joyce
If you are going to make some garden pots I would be honored if you used
some of the ideas and curious to see your own views.
Claire (who usually twigs to the obvious long before I do) and I were a
little disappointed with surface treatment the pots got . We think they
could look better salt glazed or something similar. Although salt glazing
makes them more expensive for the bother we think it well worth it.
I have not bothered to market the pots because they are going to have to
be expensive to be worth while making on a large scale . Which leads to a
pricing difficulty. If we put a hole in the bottom they are flower pots, if
we leave the bottom sound they are patio pots worth twice the price for not
being flower pots. Yet we prefer them as flower pots. You get a smaller
plant in the patio pot but the plant gets well stuck in the enclosed shapes
if it planted up as a flower pot.
I expect we will end up selling them as patio pots and putting holes in
the more open forms and selling them as holed patio pots :)
We also thought the lugs and handles sat with the pots better if they got
thinner in the middle and the strong line of the rim was disturbed in some
way. If you want any other info just ask.
I enjoyed the story I could see it as you described it.
We are all getting a little depressed at the moment . The official figures
have confirmed what we all knew - not a day with out rain for three and a
half months and most of the rain heavy. The kiln room has been a laundry all
autumn and I do not see any improvement promised for the winter.
By the way where and what is the Mojave?
Regards from Paul Taylor
http://www.anu.ie/westportpottery
> From: Joyce Lee
> Reply-To: Ceramic Arts Discussion List
> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:16:44 -0800
> To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
> Subject: Paul Taylor's Website
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> Thanks for the journey, Paul. Gonna make me some of those garden
> pots.... or at least try ..... nope, gonna make them.
>
> Joyce
> In the Mojave
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