I don’t know about you, but August has been manic on this side. I’m trying to finish my new products catalogue before heading to Japan in early September, and everything is so tightly packed, and one thing so contingent on the next, it seems impossible to exhale. Any upset, and it’s all liable to come …
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A balancing act
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Coincidences & Pots
For a while I’ve been drawing lots and lots of pots. I’ve been pinning them to my Vessels board on Pinterest, I bought a lot of bowls and tea bowls from our friend Steve Shapiro a while back, and I really enjoyed my visit to the Potters’ Market earlier this year. It seems I’ve got …
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All about Anne Finsen
On Saturday morning last week, something rather unexpected landed in my lap: Stephen Inggs, head of Michaelis Fine Arts at UCT, popped around to my studio with a portfolio of fabric prints by somebody called Anne Finsen, who died last year at the age of 94, as he thought I might be interested in her …
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Spindly Things
Prefects of online etiquette, can you tell me if it’s bad form to enjoy looking at your own Pinterest boards? Well, I certainly go back to mine a lot, as I find it useful to see what I am liking in certain categories. One of my favourites is my board called Spindly Things, and here …
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Waste not
One of the things I find stressful about this job is the fact that a heck of a lot of scrap material gets generated as we cut products from the rolls of printed fabric. I’m always trying to think of smart ways to use these, so we sell our offcuts and scraps in bundles, and …
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Season
On Thursday this week, Paul’s solo exhibition will open at Stevenson Gallery, in Juta St, Braamfontein. The exhibition, called Season, runs until 9 August 2013. I’ve seen the work growing in the studio, but it’s always so different in a gallery space. Very excited to see. Read more about Season on the Stevenson Gallery website.
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From Bowling Green to Bowl of Greens
Saturday was a beautiful winter’s day, and I walked up the hill to meet a friend at the morning market in the park next to the Oranjezicht City Farm. I’d been hearing so much about this urban farm, but was totally blown away by my visit. Believe it or not, it wasn’t long ago this …
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Vera and Grace
I had a super bumper collection from the post office this week. Unfortunately, only one of Paul’s online-bought birthday presents was amongst that lot (Flip! Birthdays are unmissable deadlines, and I missed this one BADLY), but I certainly scored with my vintage Vera scarf from Luola, and my copy of Grace Coddington’s memoir, too. If …
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Season
I visited Paul in his studio last week, to take a peek at what he’s working on for his upcoming show, opening 4 July at Stevenson Gallery in Joburg. No sneak peeks of the work, I’m afraid, but plenty of fodder for snaps.
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