This week, Amanda is unwell, it’s a very minor cold, sniffles, bit of a cough, a few night sweats, but I contend it’s worse when you rarely get sick… but moving on…

As always, please forgive the island sounds and the very noisy Saint Lucian birds and enjoy my nasal musings on everything from stains to pricing and valuing your work.

New interview next week

For those new to the podcast, check out The Archive for previous episodes

A Bit of Coloured Slip…

ICYMI - Start of Spring Madness…

Spring Madness continues…

Platters 19 & 20

Ok admission, I say my chattering skills are excellent, when objectively speaking they should have been described as ‘moderately practiced’ 😁

Bonus for ENFs

Is it????

This week, if I had to describe this episode in one word, it would be obsession.

Jess shares her search for fulfilment and tells us how an obsession with pottery saved her sanity in the most tense of times.

From military manouvres via the differences between the western and Asian pottery traditions, all the way to dreams of Sevres, our conversation is wide ranging and totally inspiring.

Enjoy!

More from Jess

Some of her work - see the website link below for more info and Jess with a big vase at Sevres

Bonus for ENFs - Spring Madness 😁

Welcome Potters worldwide, this week, I have the greatest pleasure to bring you my chat with the wonderful Denis Di Luca of Di Luca Ceramics. My very first Raku Specialist 😁

Our conversation takes us from the Painter, Raphael, through the joy of workshops to the responsibility of Potters. Sprinkled throughout is his passion for the Art of Raku and his love for the worldwide pottery community.

Enjoy!

From Saint Lucia to Urbino

What Happens When I Lose my Mojo?

From Copycat to KeramikSLU

All About Di Luca Ceramics

Bonus extra for ENFs!

So, What happened to the pieces I made?

They’ve just come out of bisque…

After my conversation with Yuliya Makliuk, I decided to do a quick sustainability check and implement one small thing to improve my sustainability.

And then enjoy my little lesson in hubris, never believe your own hype, that’s all I have to say…

Have a great week!

Sustainability Check

Below is the Yuliya Potscast episode, all links to buy her fabulous book, Potters Save The World, in the episode notes.

Here is the SCMC VIDEO

My Lesson in Hubris - How NOT to do a ‘How to’ video

Making the Glaze Testers

Bonus Video for ENFs 😁

A surprise visitor in the night… (warning 🕷️)

27th January 2018 - the very first time I entered a pottery studio to take my first lesson.

I thought this week, I’d interview myself 😁

I did the introduction to the podcast in episode one, I thought I’d update it, with the benefit of 6 extra years of experience.

My first time on a wheel and my very very first piece is below.

As always there are extra bonus videos for those who get to the bottom of the episode notes. (Do people actually read the episode notes?)

Have a good week

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My First Attempt

I found this pic (thank you Facebook memories) of the first piece I made in the studio

My First Studio Piece

Bonus Video for Episode Notes Fans (ENFs)

I don’t do video editions very often mainly because they take so bloody long to upload 🤣 If you hate them and want me to stop doing them let me know I don’t mind stopping…👀

I talk about the End of year show and how I met Patricia Lee in my Random Thoughts podcast. You can click below if you want to listen. I start talking about it around 8mins in, just in case you don’t fancy listening to the whole episode, which is actually quite fun. 😁

Click here for the episode

Have a great week, everyone

Keep scrolling for bonus vids especially for the episode notes devotees.

Thank you for reading them 😁

Glaze Results

(Chattering How To Video)

I thought these were the same pieces from the video, they’re not, sorry about that, but they are lovely 😁 I’ll post the actual ones when they’re done

Saint Lucian Bandits!

(Members of my Caribbean Pottery Facebook Group will have already seen this.)

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So, we all made it to 2024, that’s an achievement 😁

In this episode, I talk about changes that I’ve made and discuss changes that are to come…

Let me know in the comments what changes you’re thinking of making in 2024!

And don’t forget to email me here, or use the button below if you would like to share your pottery stories. I don’t bite, I promise (and it’s not live, it’s edited 😁)

As well as the Tropical Vacations section, I would recommend checking out the Archive and binge listening a few of the interview episodes, I promise it will be worth your time, potters 😉

If you can’t find the menu, there’s a button at the bottom of the page 😁

Anyhoo, look below for bonus extras (for the people who read the ep notes😉)

The View

Bonus Video

To check out the menu

For the first episode of The Potscast in 2024, I’m immensely proud to offer you the Ukraine Special - a continuation of my chat with Julia Makliuk of Here & Now Pottery.

I try to keep the real world and politics out of my pottery world, but sometimes there is a very clear overlap.

We start with how life has changed and we end up with words of hope and we both remember one very important thing - History and, more importantly, Family Stories passed from generation to generation.

So I dedicate this, and all my podcast episodes to Storytelling - the Telling of Stories…

If you would like to support Yuliya, or just want to find out more…

In the final Potscast of 2023, I am joined by Yuliya Makliuk of Here & Now Pottery, based in Ukraine. In this episode we will be focussing on her pottery and discussing her amazing book,

Potters Save The World

(Get your copy here: Amazon - Etsy - PDF Download)

After making me feel really guilty about my carbon footprint, Yuliya gives us the top three things we can do to make our pottery more sustainable.

Come back next week If you’re interested in hearing our discussion about Life in Ukraine and Yuliya’s thoughts on war and her homeland.

I know, dear listener, you were expecting to hear a fab interview with Yuliya, however, I’ve been dealing with a pottery related issue…

I’ve had to do a large re-order, nearly a ton of clay and some 20/40 kg bags of raw ingredients. To achieve this my main adversary is…

Saint Lucia Customs & Excise…

Rant incoming…😳

Special Christmas Raffle by Yuliya - Here and Now Pottery

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