Roly Beevor on thu 25 aug 05
Hello there all,
Been doing my summer reading / radio listening / web surfing.
This might amuse you, from http://www.crowancrafts.co.uk/pottery/harry.htm
"Harry was born in 1914 and left school at sixteen. The only thing he had
ever excelled at was drawing, so he was sent to Bournemouth Art School.
There, pottery classes were full so he couldn't join them, but out of hours,
alone in the pottery room he worked away by himself, putting his efforts on
the shelves with the rest. At the end of the term when the firing was due,
and the finished pots were assembled, it was discovered that all the biggest
pots, and half of the rest, were made by Harry who did not even take
pottery! So the headmaster got him a job as 'handy boy' with the local
Broadstone Potters, near Poole, who made the Joyous Pottery range."
And why havn't the pedants been out complaining about the abuse of the
apostrophe? Is it MAs' or MA's? Or MsA?
And while we're on art I liked this from Don McCullin the war photographer:
“We have a problem now, because (photography’s) been looked upon in a
different vein now, it’s actually looked upon as art, which disturbs me
greatly. I think every man and woman and child in the world can take a
photograph now. They can’t put claim to being artists. And I don’t see
photography as an art. I mean, a lot of photographers, myself included, goes
without saying are very influenced by art, and I can’t help admitting that
when I take photographs I try to compose my pictures, even in the moment of
battle and the moment of crisis, I try to compose them, not so much in an
artistic way, but to make them seem right, to make them come across
structurally. So there is a confusion and I myself try not to associate
myself with art, really.”
Finally for those struggling to appreciate the social gulf between Leach and
Davis, try this from Memoirs of a Highland Lady, Elizabeth Grant of
Rothiemurchus, showing that the battle of Waterloo was not entirely won on
the playing fields of Eton:
"Lord Huntly had most improperly so advanced one or two of his servants and
several of his servants' sons, and in the German legion there had been two
lieutenents who began life as carpenters' apprentices to Donald Mclean. One
of these, Sandy McBean, who lived the rest of his days at Guislich under the
title of Offisher, attended church very smart, and dined once every season
at our table, as was now his due, had helped to alter the staricase with the
same hands that afterwards held his sword." Following a death in a brawl at
an inn; "..the fault lay with those who had put young men who were not
gentlemen into a position only fit for gentlemen; had these lowly born,
uneducated youths been at the plough, they would neither have had the time
nor inclination for such a scandal."
Roly Beevor
In sunny Gateshead, hoping for the rain to stop in Nottingham.
Steve Irvine on thu 25 aug 05
Roly,
Thanks for posting the link to the page about Harry Davis. I once had the pleasure of having a
long breakfast conversation with him shortly after he returned from Peru. Certainly one of the
most determined and relentlessly independent people (potter or otherwise!) that I have ever met.
Steve
http://www.steveirvine.com
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:10:22 +0100, Roly Beevor wrote:
>This might amuse you, from http://www.crowancrafts.co.uk/pottery/harry.htm
>
>"Harry was born in 1914 and left school at sixteen. The only thing he had
>ever excelled at was drawing, so he was sent to Bournemouth Art School.
>There, pottery classes were full so he couldn't join them, but out of hours,
>alone in the pottery room he worked away by himself, putting his efforts on
>the shelves with the rest. At the end of the term when the firing was due,
>and the finished pots were assembled, it was discovered that all the biggest
>pots, and half of the rest, were made by Harry who did not even take
>pottery! So the headmaster got him a job as 'handy boy' with the local
>Broadstone Potters, near Poole, who made the Joyous Pottery range."
>Roly Beevor
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