Returned from Mall Galleries

Ceramics by Pam Schomberg

I have finally returned from the The Society of Designer Craftsmen exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London.  It has been a great experience.  The Society have been incredibly helpful.  They offered a workshop on Finance for designer makers and had a one to one mentoring session.  Mine was with Pam Schcomberg which was really useful.   Pam gave me a whole list of ideas to follow up and I found her very gracious,  extremely knowledgeable and helpful.

I have been researching her work this morning while looking for images to show you on my blog and was interested to see that she is influenced by textiles in her work as she commented "My father was a tailor, as was his father and his father before him.  I work as if I'm working with fabric.  I cut out patterns and I join them."   The tailored look is evident in Pam's work from the buttons, collars, seams and edges which are carefully joined to make distinctive articles.

It is interesting to think how we are all inspired by a huge variety of things.  I am back from London and looking forward to drawing, sketching ideas and photographing images that intrigue me.  Many people have asked me why  I was drawn to be so interested in telegraph poles and pylons.  They love the images but have not noticed them in their garden or on the roads.   But that is the exciting thing about art we all see things in different and make us look at the world differently.

Finally I am pleased to say that I was awarded a Distinction by the Society of Designer Craftsmen.  Very proud.