Sunday 28 April 2013

Made in Bradford ceramic Saturday update

Lots of work done setting this up, a few more pieces to come in but looking good.
If you have not yet explored the Made in Bradford shop in Lamb's Yard, Bradford on Avon, you are missing a treat. It is full of glorious corners packed with treasures, all regional and original, and being local, very affordable.
This Saturday, May 4th, it will be focusing on the work of its diverse group of ceramicists, everything from the functional through the decorative, and the sculptural,  to the completely silly.









Wednesday 10 April 2013

The Silkie finds her Skin






 2 The Silkie Finds Her Skin


The Celtic legend of the Silkie tells of the incredibly beautiful seal women who would sometimes come ashore, shed their skins and take human form. Men, coming across them would fall in love and steal and hide their skins. A seal woman would then be under the power of a man that stole her skin and stranded on the land, would marry him and become his wife and the mother of his children.
  This relationship could last many years.
If the woman ever found her skin she would be drawn irresistibly back to the sea and abandon her husband and children and return to the ocean.

Where do the roots of this legend lie? As an explanation for women doing the unpardonable and breaking the bond with their children, a bond of such strength breaking it is inconceivable to many women. Or perhaps the roots are more sinister and the legend was used to cover the unexplained disappearance of a wife and mother.