Hengistbury head and Swanage bay, small square vase.

My latest pot. Hengistbury head and Swanage bay.

This mornings firing of my hand painted ceramics.

This mornings firing. Hengistbury head, Corfe castle and Swanage, Knowlton church, Lepe beach and the Needles, Southern France and some of my poppy tea lights. 

The items are tea lights - £8

Kitchen utensil holders - £15

Pitcher/ jugs - £10

Tilted bowls - £12

Storage containers -£12 

Today's firing.

Another firing today. Some different coloured tea lights along with tilted bowls, sugar pots and bowls, all with Dorset scenes.

Hythe Mistletoe Fayre.

Hythe Mistletoe Fayre 2017

On Saturday 2nd December come and join us for a day of festive fun at Hythe Mistletoe Fayre!

http://www.southernmarkettraders.co.uk/hythe-mistletoe-fayre-smt-christmas/

This will be my second market stall. Do come along and find my stall there. There will be lots of beautiful hand painted ceramics to buy and enjoy. They make beautiful and very unique Christmas gifts. 

I have a name now for my ceramics. Red Kite Ceramics. I hope you all like it as it captures the things that I love. Red kites fly up over the hills in Dorset, they've made a comeback from the brink of disappearing from our landscape. They make me thing of freedom and freedom is an important thing to me as I love walking and exploring the world. I also love to fly kites and have many happy memories of flying them with my family. There is always a great kite festival; at Hengistbury head where we would enjoy a picnic and fly the kite at the same time. Dorset is a great place to do that sort of thing. 

I'm now preparing some of my work for my Christmas markets. If you wish to purchase an item yourself, do contact me. https://www.facebook.com/pamsmithceramics/ or email pamcsmith@hotmail.co.uk

My latest firing using some new ideas and techniques

I was excited about this firing as I tired out some more new ideas. Dorset is a very beautiful county and has some remarkably different landscapes. Up on high down land hills there are tall towers and churches. The views drift over woodland and fields to reach distant hills. It's here that skylarks, buzzards and red kites fly, butterflies hover over meadows of grasses and wild flowers and sometimes you just get lucky and there in front of you is a huge field of poppies. I do love the poppies but it's just as wonderful to see a field of blue flax, brilliant yellow rapeseed or woods filled with the deep scent of bluebells. I've been enjoying mixing landscape with flowers and blending different glazes and undercoats to achieve the colours.