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As it is getting more spring- like and birds will be flying back home soon, here is a little reminder of what we could be doing soon - birdwatching! This is an automaton by Peter Markey ‘Birdwatchers’...Something playful to brighten up grey morning: Peter Markey’s Can-Can and Vase Argenta designed by Wilhelm Kage for Gustavsberg.
Category Archives: Crafts
Julia Donnelly spills the glass beads! Everything you need to know about lampworking
Glass jewellery maker Julia Donnelly writes about the making of her delightful beads. Lampwork is an ancient skill and a process ideally suited to small workshop practice. Her work is featured in the Ken Stradling Collection‘s exhibition ‘Making Joy – … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century Design, Crafts, Glass
Tagged glass beads, glass jewellery, glassmaking, hot glass, studio glass
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Don’t miss ‘Making Joy: Fire and Ice’ – one more month to visit
Celebrating Bristol’s long history of making beautiful glass we are shining a spotlight on this exciting world of ‘fire and ice’. The Ken Stradling Collection at 48 Park Row, Bristol are using their windows as the exhibition space. In this … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century Design, Crafts, Glass
Tagged Bristol Blue Glass, Cat Mack Glass, Exhibition, glass artist, glass blowing, studio glass, Whitefriars Glass
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Getting Hooked on Glassblowing
Our current window show celebrates the potential of glass to brighten our lives. Not everyone knows our KSC Manager Julia Donnelly is also a glass-artist. Nowadays she makes glass jewellery – here she describes her journey into glass and the … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century Design, Crafts, Glass
Tagged glass artist, glass blowing, hot glass, London Glassblowing, Peter Layton, studio glass
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Making Joy – Fire and Ice
Making Joy – Fire and Ice is our latest Covid-19 safe, street viewable, show at the Stradling Collection in Park Row, Bristol. It is on from 17 December 2020 – 28 February 2021 and is a joyous, bright exhibition for … Continue reading
Form and Function: Geoffrey Whiting’s Teapots
Geoffrey Whiting’s teapots are the forms for which he remains best known, having achieved a design that is at once highly functional, but also good to look at as a piece of working sculpture. It is one that combines all … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century Design, Ceramics, Crafts, Modernism
Tagged David Whiting, Exhibition, form, form and function, Geoffrey Whiting, Mid-century Modern, modernist, porcelain, Pottery, Studio Pottery, teapot
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Geoffrey Whiting: a potter and a painter
Geoffrey Whiting had an important parallel activity as a watercolour painter, but this is a lesser known area of his art. His great knowledge of the natural world underpinned all his creativity. It was there in the coloration of his pots, … Continue reading
Geoffrey Whiting’s Candlesticks for Canterbury Cathedral
You can find candlesticks made by Geoffrey Whiting in Canterbury Cathedral It is always gratifying, but still all too rare when potters get major commissions. In 1982 Geoffrey Whiting was commissioned by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral to … Continue reading
A Pioneering Ceramic Studio
Behind every successful man, there stands a woman. A Pioneering Ceramic Studio There is a very old and famous saying, ‘behind every successful man, there stands a woman’, and Geoffrey Whiting had Anne Whiting. After the second war she co-founded … Continue reading
Making Useful Simple – Geoffrey Whiting at the KSC
1st October – 14th December Our latest show at the Ken Stradling Collection highlights the art of making beautiful items for the home through an examination of the work of potter Geoffrey Whiting (1919-1988). The exhibition is totally Covid-19 friendly. … Continue reading