farnham

Yesterday I went out to Newham to deliver some pieces to The New Ashgate Gallery for their next display. There will be another lovely mix of makers starting today! I made a new series of mugs for them.

The gallery is in the town which has strong connection with crafts and hosts annual craft festivals. Therefore despite being a small town there are quite a few places to see. Although, this was my first visit. So after the gallery, I visited to Crafts Study Centre to see the exhibition of Ladi Kwali who worked with Michael Cardew in 60s. There are some water pots that have her iconic shapes and motifs and some other shapes that I could see the exchange of skills and cultures. It made me think more of my next research trip in Japan!

昨日はロンドンから列車で1時間ほどのところにあるFarnhamという町に行きました。旅の目的はデッドラインぎりぎりの納品。でも、列車の旅も町の散策も楽しんできました。

町ではローマン時代から地元の土を使った陶器作りが始まっていたようですが、町を栄えさせたのはかなり後のこと、地元の穀物とそれを使ったビール産業のようです。なので、町は小さいながら、いろんなスタイルの素敵な建物がいくつもあり、路地裏を歩くのも楽しかったです。また波をうったようなでこぼこ屋根も小さい町ならでは。かわいい景色がたくさんありました。

町にはクラフトがらみの施設がいくつかあり、充実した小旅行になりました。

Christmas Open 14

Hi. Hope you all have been well.

It's all crazily hectic here with loads of Christmas orders and a few more shows..! (That's why I haven't been able to blog!!)

Thanks to those who came to Made London. It was a great show and I enjoyed the whole experience so much! I will write about it some time... hopefully before the new year!!

The coming-up shows are: (Please go to the links for more information!)

Christmas show at Cavaliero Finn, on 29th-30th (Sat & Sun) 10:30am-6pm. They are one of a few agents I have been working with for a long time from the very early stage of my career. I am very pleased they liked my new range and am glad to work together again for this show! 

Lights On at Flow Gallery, from 10th Dec - 7th February.

They are one of my favourite galleries. They have been working on their space renovation and this will be their first re-opening show! I'm so glad to be part of it!

Christmas show at Cambridge Contemporary Crafts.

I will update the info as soon as I get the latest information about this!

And, of course, our annual Open Studio!

This time we have joined together with other local studios. (Although we only open for one day 29TH NOV!) This is a great chance to see the working studios of great makers such as Marcio Mattos & Marilza Gouvea and Martin Pearce and his guest exhibitor Annabel Faraday in their studios in Broadway Market Mews, and Karen Bunting on Beck Road (just a minute walking from Broadway Market!)

Looking forward to seeing you!!

Another Ceramics in the City - Design Festival 14

Yesterday I went to see one of the design districts, Shoreditch Design Triangle. This year it looks even more interesting with many more shops/galleries opening their doors. 

SCP, one of my favourite shops. They were showing some new collections. One of these is Mashiko pottery that has come to London a few times now. This time in this shop they seem to have different shapes, maybe more suitable for food style here.

In the same shop another collection by a very talented designer Reiko Kaneko who's now based in Stoke-On-Trent. VERY beautiful terracotta tableware with a careful attention to details, earthy but modern. Although, personally I have a problem with unglazed surface for functional ware when it's low-fired. It's more porous and hard to keep it clean hygienically and cosmetically.

This is very jolly collection of vases by Bethan Laura Wood Alter, Max Lamb, Martino Gamper and somebody (! Sorry I couldn't remember his/her name, but makes beautiful milkshake glaze! I will edit here as soon as I find out his name!) at Ace Hotel. I loved how they're displayed with flowers and, really, their playfulness as one and as a group. 

These plant pots are not just for the festival. They are in their bar. I just love the way they go so well with the plants and how they are hang.

And Studio Potapota for Aesop. The ceramics is made by a Japanese duo Hidekazu & Kaori Sogabe. Interesting...

Luna & Curious. They transformed a part of their shop to a ceramic studio with a table to make your ceramics with an extruder to play with. If you like to try out some ceramic technique you better pop in there.

In another favourite shop: Choosing Keeping is the show of two artists. The ceramic work is by Morgan Peck. Another artist is David Bachelor. The collection that is quiet but fun goes so well with the stationery Julia has chosen from all over the world. It's such a beautiful space! Please don't miss this!

As you can see, you have a VERY GOOD reason to come to East this weekend. Please don't miss Ceramics in the City at Geffrye Museum. Open Fri - Sun 10am-5pm. Late Event is on Thu 6pm - 8:30pm! See you there!

今年は陶器の作品をよく見る気がする。仕事柄、勝手に目がいってしまうというのもあるとは思うけれども、それでも多いような。でも、それだけ、皆の興味があるということはとっても嬉しい。ただのトレンドで終わらないことを願うばかり。今から展示会のセットアップだ。ブログなんてしていて良かったのか、、、？

mishima style

Now it's 10 days to go before Ceramics in The City. I'm just doing the last firings...
The new series I've been making for the upcoming shows (also for Made London) is called Mishima style (Mishima-de) in Japan. The technique applied is called inlaying here. We use different clay from the body clay (that we make pots with) in another colour to fill the incised marks. The style originally came from Korea of Koryo period, Buncheong pottery, to Japan.
We named it Mishima-de as its fine patterns looked like Mishima calender: one of our old ones. (the link is in Japanese, but it's got a picture of the calender.) It often implies floral and animal motifs.
This time I wanted to make it a bit more British with something that we see in a big group here... Would you like to know what it is? Please come to Ceramics in the City at Geffrye museum!
The pictures are showing two stages of the making process: after incising with patterns and when getting rid of excess clay after inlaying.

今年は秋のショーに向けて、三島手に挑戦していた。粉引きからの流れなので、技術的なところでは前回ほど苦労することはなかったけれども、平たい作品なのでちょっと多めに重ねて焼いたところ、大量に割れが起こり、また新たなナゾに出くわすことに、、、。制作中、窯の故障があり、直してもらうまでのしっかりとした期間乾燥させてあったものなので、水蒸気の問題とかではないはず。また、真ん中の割れが底のものよりひどかったりするので、重みの問題でもないと思う。解決策は、重ね過ぎない事ということはわかっても、ナゾの鍵がわからないのがとっても気になる。

私の三島はちょっとイギリスの景色を取り込んだものもあり、どういう反応を頂くのか、楽しみ！と同時にとっても心配。ショーを10日後に控え、スタジオの整理整頓を始めた。スタジオがいつも以上に荒れて見え、制作も手につかなくなる。いつものことだけど、もう一つのナゾ。

the making of kohiki -2

We use liquid clay called 'slip'. There are some variations of it, we adjust the recipe, consistency and colour depending on the use of it. Kohiki style has a layer of white slip under the glaze. 

The main ingredient for my slip is very fine clay called China clay. I dipped my thrown piece in one go to put layer inside and outside, but this has been causing another trouble. I assume, in my case anyway, when this fine clay seals all the surface the air gets trapped in the clay body. Although, the air needs to escape somewhere and caused bubble in the body. I acknowledged this last year but after a rather long Christmas holiday I totally forgot about it... 

At the same time I had changed the slip recipe hoping to improve the fit with the glaze, but it caused funny reaction instead. I haven't found out yet why this happened, but I had to return to the old recipe.

After all these shifts and adjustments, in the very last minute for the pop-up shop in Serpentine gallery, I got the best firing result so far. I hope you can imagine how happy I was after so many firings of such a low success rate! 

Anyway, the pop-up shop conjunct with Martino Gamper's 'Design is a state of mind' is another Momosan shop. She has been giving me critical and very open opinions, which has been helping me to challenge something new. Thank you so so much!

I hope you can make it to the shop, also, of course, to the charming exhibition! There are so much personal and fun things in there!

泥漿とは釉薬の下に使う液体状の粘土。模様を描いたり、コーティングしたり、使い方がいろいろあり、用途やかけるタイミングに合わせて、レシピや濃さも多少変わるが、基本的にきめの細かい、白い陶土から作られる。粉引の場合、この泥漿を全体的にコーティングするように、粘土の表面にかける。

ただ、私の場合、この泥漿を内側、外側両方から同時にかけると、ぼこっと空気泡ができてしまう。粘土が水分を吸収した時に、土の中にある空気が逃げ場を失うのか、素焼きをした後のものにかけても、泡は小さくなれど同じで、制作を急いでいてもしないように気をつけていた。けれども、長めのクリスマスの後、すっかりそのことを忘れてしまい、焼き一回分をまるまるこの調子で作ってしまった。しかも、釉薬との相性を良くするために変えたつもりのレシピが、逆によろしくなく、他の問題も浮き上がってきてしまう始末。

納品の期日もあるし、多少焦りながら作った最後の焼きが、今までで一番良くて、本当に嬉しかった。カップはいつもお世話になっているmomosanのところへ。ただ、今回はMartino Gamperのエキシビジョンに併設されたポップアップショップ。また違う人の目に触れるので怖いが、とってもありがたい機会。たくさんの人に気に入ってもらえるといいな。そして、次の焼きも同じように安定したものが出てきてくれるといいな、、、と切実に思うこの頃。

ロンドンは桜が咲き始めて、はや1ヶ月。4月に雪が降った去年も異常だけれども、今年も変。でも、粘土の乾きが早くなったのは嬉しいことかな。

the making of kohiki -1

Finally! It looks like it's all OK?
The furrow in snow series has been a real struggle... (just because I lack scientific understanding of the materials!)

First of all I mix clay and use Terracotta: low-firing red clay, in it. The maximum temperature for the clay is 1180 but I usually fire to 1260 with other clays that I've been using. All my glazes are designed for this temperature, but if I go this high this mixed clay body starts bubbling.
So I had to drop the temperature a little bit to avoid this problem, which brought another problem: the glaze doesn't mature. All the glaze has a temperature that needs to be reached. The glaze consists of three elements: glassy material to cover the surface and body material so that glaze fit on the clay body and 'flux' to melt these materials. By combining the three elements (from lots of raw materials!) we make a glaze to get a desired surface.
Mine for this series is supposed to be a very simple one: transparent glaze (but there are so many 'transparent' surface and I didn't want shiny one or runny one. I wanted warm one that goes a bit opaque where it's thicker.)
Anyway, back to the story, to mature the glaze at a lower temperature I had to alter the recipe. 
Altering the recipe in ceramics is not as easy as doing it in cooking. I always wonder if there's any 'super mad ceramicist' who can tell from the recipe how the glaze behaves and looks without making it. I think there are many who can roughly guess what might happen, but I don't think anybody can tell exactly. (Anyway that's the fun part of ceramics.)
Anyway as I can't 'calculate' glaze I just mixed some combinations. I got a good recipe but at the same time got another problem. It's because the new series has got a layer of slip between the clay and the glaze.

(...continues.)

新年の課題の一つが新しいシリーズの釉薬を作り直すこと。というのも、いつもの温度で焼くと粘土がぼこぼことしてくるし、低くすると釉薬が濁ってしまうから。ショーに持って行けたものは、この二つの問題が発生しない、ちょうど1250と1257℃の間隔で焼かれたものだけ。温度の平均でない窯で焼いているので、新作の成功率は20%かそれ以下だったと思う。去年は釉薬を調整する時間もなかったので、それで仕方がなかったけど、今年は年明け早々に取り組んだ。粘土の性質は変えられないので、釉薬を変える。
透明釉が濁るというのは、材料がちゃんと溶けていないか、釉薬の中に空気があるということ。もちろん、それ自体には問題はないし、それを好んで使う人もいる。でも、私の新シリーズには、流れずにスムーズで暖かみのある透明釉が欲しかった。
釉薬は3つの要素から成っていて、表面を覆うようにガラス質のもの、素地の粘土にくっつくように土、それと、それらを溶かすためのフラックスがある。この3つのコンビネーションが、釉薬の仕上がりはもちろん、焼成中の動きやら、融解温度を決める。しかも、そのコンビネーションのための素材はいくつもある。
釉薬を計算するという概念は巷にあるそうだけれども、私にはできない。ので、とにかく、コンビネーションをいろいろ試してみることから始めた。すると、思っていた釉薬は意外と簡単に見つかったが、別の問題が発生した。というのも、粉引きには粘土と釉薬の間に、泥漿、キメの細かい粘土の層があるのだ。

（時間がないので、次回に続く。）

made london

Thank you so much to those who visited Made London!
This was my first time in this beautiful venue and I enjoyed the whole experience meeting people who appreciate what we do and being among talented makers. I sold out some pieces and am now in the last-minutes-making for the next show! 
If you missed it please meet me at Chelsea Old Town Hall next week!

seasonal greetings

a report before the open studio

Today, first thing in the morning I opened my kiln. We had a bit funny firing this time. We set the kiln to finish at 7am but when I came in yesterday rather late at 9:30 it was still going up at around 1245. I thought it's odd but thought maybe another studio mate who stayed late the day before might have extended the delay. And then I started working on slip-casting checking the temperature every time I passed the kiln. And I realised it was going up really really slowly, it only went up 20℃ in an hour whereas it should be about 250/h. It wasn't a great sign... so I turned it off at 1265. (I usually fire to 1275 which is, with my kiln, 1260.)
I was anxious about the firing until I opened it this morning. It wasn't a disaster, it was a rather normal one with a few bits of disappointing pieces, which was a relief. 
What is better rather than worse, I got one piece that I'm really really happy with. A tiny tiny bottle I curved its bottom with Japanese chisels and put two glazes on. With a very slow firing at the end almost like a loooong soak, the glaze flowed really nicely. I love it so much that I don't want to sell. It pays off all my worries.
But I wonder why these things happen always before the show??

今日は本焼きの窯を開けました。窯は電気式で焼き方もコントローラーで管理します。大体安心して任せておけるものなのですが、今回は、朝の7時に終わるはずのものが、9時半でもまだ温度は上昇中で、しばらく観察していると1時間に20度しか上がっていない事がわかりました。（プログラムは250℃です。）どの辺りからこの調子だったのかわかりませんが、あまり長く続くと釉薬にも影響してくると思い、いつもより10℃低いところで焼きを止めました。
そんなことがあったので、結果がすごく心配だったのですが、窯の温度が下がった今朝、開けてみると、いつもと同じような感じで安心しました。残念なものがいくつかあるのも、いつものことです。
今回は一つだけ、底を彫刻刀で削ったものが、いい感じに仕上がってくれました。焼きが長かった分、２種類重ねた釉薬がきれいに流れて、とてもかわいいです。心配していた後だけに、無事に仕上がってくれるだけで、すごく嬉しいものです。

open studio and christmas shop 2012

Please come and join us for our Open Studio and Christmas Shop!

Check our new studio mates and guest designers as well as my new pots!

Looking forward to seeing you.

mxxx

all wrapped up

I am taking part in the Christmas exhibition at Cambridge contemporary crafts. Please check out for your special gifts!

(And don't forget to visit Kettle's yard when in Cambridge!)

クリスマスショーのお知らせをしています。

私はというと、先月末に引越しをしました。友人宅の一部がスタジオフラットになっていて、そこを借りさせてもらうことになりました。ロンドンで初めての一人暮らしです。

ちょっと怖いような嬉しいような、複雑な気持ちでスタートしましたが、空間を自分の好きなように作り上げていくうちに、だんだんと慣れてきました。

食べ物ブログも、そのうち、再開です。

tiny bottles

My new series: ’tiny bottles’ freshly baked and taken out of the kiln this morning!

新作の本焼きを終えました。シリーズ名はひねらず、tiny bottlesでいきます。

play time in work!

While working on a few orders I started playing on the wheel. I just tried to enjoy the very therapeutic process while working in a small mass-production.. then started making a series of very small pots (hope you can tell from the size of the turning tool in the front.). They'll be available during our Open studio which is coming up in the next month. (24th & 25th November, 1st & 2nd December. Please keep the date in your diary!) 

Our studio mates Parasite Ceramics are working in the Bloomsbury Festival this weekend. Please get involved in the actions happening in the area!

ちょっとした大量生産をしているので、ろくろで気分転換をしようとしたところ、小さいポットがかわいく出来上がったので、シリーズを作り始めてしまいました。遊び半分でろくろを引く時間は本当に楽しいです。ただただ土の感触を味わうのです。

ろくろの腕はまだまだ未熟なのですが、それでも手と目が慣れてきて、少しずつ上達してきました。こちらで陶芸を始めた私は、もちろんイギリス流にろくろを回します。実は日本とは回る向きが違います。たまに、日本の時計回りで試しに引こうとするのですが、目が反対回りに慣れてしまっているようで、目眩を感じるようになってしまいました。でも、いつか、日本で教えてもらいたいものです。

fig

Here comes one of my best favourite fruits! I made compote first and put some into muffins.

I altered peach muffin recipe. I replaced peach with fig but it wasn't great as fig hasn't got much acidity. I had it with Stichelton and it tasted better so I'm thinking of adding some feta cheese or something to the recipe. I hope I get a good recipe while it's in the season.

I have been enjoying finding fig dishes here. Salad, tart, bread, pizza... We also have a bit unusual way of having it... with miso paste! I still remember "how weird!" I thought when I saw it on the dinner table. I need to look into the recipe as I've never made it by myself... 

Hopefully two recipes will be on here in the near future.

The tree house and the new bowls are in the shop at NCCD. If you live nearby please check and take some home with you!

昨日の買い物で仕入れたいちじくをコンポートにしました。それを使って、他のレシピを基にマフィンを作ってみたら、酸味が足りず、なんとなくもの足りない味になってしまいました。とりあえず、ブルーチーズと食べたらおいしかったので、次回はフェタチーズでも混ぜて作ってみようと思います。

いちじくはこちらでも新鮮な形で出てくる事があって、ローストされてメインの付け合わせに出てくる以外に、ピザに載っていたのを見たこともあります。

アラビックのお菓子では乾燥されたものに、ナッツが挟まれています（彼らはデーツにもアーモンドやピスタチオを挟んだりします）。

とは言っても、日本のいちじくのふろふきはこちらの人にとってみれば、すごく意外に映るでしょうので、いつか、それも作ってネタにしたいところです。

new bowls

The new bowls are also shown during Open Studio.

I just sent off a statement for the show of new bowls at Aberystwyth Arts Centre. The show is between 9th July and 18th August.
It is the second hardest task for me to write a statement about a new product after giving it a name... The bowl still don't have a name... (and I still have to make some more...)


次のショーで新作を見せることになりました。
まだ数が足りないので、作らなければいけないのですが、１週間しかありません。毎日、慣れないロクロと奮闘しているので、肩が凝ります。ヨガに行きたいです。
と、当時にシリーズに名前をつけたく、考え中です。

beenleigh blue

The balancing diet to the weekend: broad beans salad with pink fir apple, celery, onion, chive and Beenleigh blue. 
Beenleigh blue is made by the maker who produces Devon blue I used in another salad. It is less salty than most of blue cheeses and is made from ewe's milk which I think subtler but richer than cow's in flavour. I love it so much.
The bowl is thrown and curved by me. I will have some of these new bowls during our Open Studio. Please come and take some home with you! The details about the Open Studio will follow very soon.

 今日は、外食続きの週末の贅肉落としを願いつつのサラダです。そら豆、じゃがいも、セロリに玉ねぎ、そしてチャイブとブルーチーズをマヨネーズベースのドレッシングで和えたものです。
こちらにはチーズメーカーのチーズと職人さんによるチーズ(artisan cheese)があって、職人さんのものは微妙なこだわりが感じられて、私にとっては贅沢品です。イギリスにいるからには、、と思い、少しずついろいろ試しているのですが、味もメーカーさんも覚えられない程たくさんあります。この間のDevon blueがおいしかったので、同じ作り手さんのBeenleigh blueというブルーチーズを試してみました。こちらにはヤギや羊の乳製品がたくさんあるのですが、牛のものよりも舌に少しまろやかで風味豊かでおいしいです。ヨーグルトはちょっと苦手ですが、バターやチーズは断然おいしいと感じます（個人的な好みだと思いますが）。Beenleighも羊の乳から作られていて、塩っぱすぎず、食べやすかったです。
上の写真はHackneyのある場所で撮りました。オリンピック用の臨時の駐車サイン。下の写真は今朝のRegent street。この間までは全てイギリス国旗でしたが、オリンピック仕様に変わっていました。

koya dofu and green pea rice

Koya dofu is another traditional ingredient in Japanese food. We freeze tofu and dry it completely. It's like a hard sponge when we buy it and we usually soak it in water before using. It absorbs the soup when being cooked and tastes lovely when the soup comes out in the mouth! This time I used it in a Chinese style. 
The peas has come in season now. The first dish I made with it was mame gohan (green pea rice). We cook rice and pea with a bit of sake and salt. It goes well with tomato based soups and currys. Please try it while it's in the shops!


I had new bowls in the firing over the weekend and I got them out yesterday. (one of them is in the picture on the left upper corner) I'm quite happy with the shape and I'm hoping to make it in porcelain in the end... Let's see how it works.


昨日は高野豆腐の八宝菜と豆ご飯を作りました。グリンピースはこちらでは最近見かけ始めたという頃です。日本ではもうちょっと早く出回り始めていた感じかしら？
高野豆腐の八宝菜は山下家の定番でした。ヘルシーに思えるでしょうが、私は高野豆腐に焦げ目をつけるのが好きなので、玉ねぎと同じタイミングで最初から入れてしまいます。すると油を吸って（追加で足した分もしっかり吸います）、結構なカロリーになっていると思います。でも、その分おいしさもぐんっとアップするので、やめられません。


昨日は、３週間ぶりにヨガ復活した日でもありました。ヨガウェアを着てみてびっくり（というか、やはりか、、、という感じだったのですが）太っていました。ヨガに行かない間は食べる量も増えていたので、また気を引き締め直して、摂生しなくちゃいけないんですけどね。食いしん坊にとって、食べ物を制限するのはとてもツライです。

changes in the new year -1

Today my neighbour-friend Taeko (8 years old) visited me as usual. 
She's a really really lovely girl who is clever, sensitive and very funny. I've seen her since she was 6 months old. Time flies, but it has been really lovely to see her growing up to such a nice girl. 
She has been working with me from time to time since she was 2 years old and now she knows a lot about ceramics: how to make moulds, how to smooth the surface and a lot of technical problems in making. It is great for me to know that I am a part of her childhood and had something I passed on to her and shared with her.
She always gives me some inspirations, ideas and smiles. Unfortunately she's leaving to Spain very soon... I will miss her A LOT. 
She started making me a lovely plate using her own mould.


The next show is in The craft centre and the Design gallery in Leeds. 


今日も妙子が遊びに来ました。妙子とは、私が今のスタジオに引っ越してからの付き合いで、彼女はその時母親の腕に抱かれた６ヶ月の赤ちゃんでした。母親の知子さんはその時すでに在英期間も長く、同じ日本語で会話ができることから、いろいろ話をしたりお世話になったりしていました。私もできる時には、妙子の面倒を見たりして、ご近所付き合いさせてもらっていますが、彼女の成長を間近でみるとても貴重な経験をさせてもらうことになりました。そんな妙子ももう8歳です。とても賢く、思いやりがあって、面白い子になりました。そして、私の仕事のかたわらで遊ぶので、粘土で作る事もたくさん覚えてくれました。
そして残念なことに、1週間後にスペインに引っ越してしまいます。どれだけ長期的なものになるのかわからないけれども、寂しくなりそうです。
今日は自分で作った型を使ってお皿作りを始めていました。

seasonal greetings

Lovely Christmas presents made by Margot (2 years old) for her family with a lot of help from her mum. I really love little ones' abstract painting. I think it was a little hard for her to see how they will look like after firing as the colours are mixed with clay and don't show much. But she was really enjoying the painting bit smartly performing all the tasks. She made me laugh when she refused to use a certain colour just because there wasn't much in the container (but enough to draw some lines!)... This was my final project for this year. 
The year 2011 is going really quickly. I had lots of feelings with all the happenings in Japan and personally but am not sure if I've grown from these. I really hope the new year will be a really peaceful one for everybody.

年の瀬になり、一年を振り返る時期になりました。いろんな気持ちを経験したけれども、それぞれにどう対処していったのか、よくわからないまま過ぎてきてしまったような気もします。
今年はいろんなことがあり、思い考える事がたくさんありました。そのせいか、ホントに短い一年でした。皆さんにとってはどんな一年だったのでしょう。来年は皆さんにとっても健やかで平和な一年になりますように。（こちらの風習に従い、クリスマスの挨拶を年始のご挨拶に代えさせていただきます。）

workshop

We had a lovely time during our annual Open Studio. It was really great to see you again!
We had workshop on the last day Sunday and continuously had a few visitors with their little ones.
Our new studiomate Megan is so good at working with kids and have a great knowledge of painting and printing on ceramics. She prepared some bisque-ware to draw on: tiles, plates, mugs and sugar bowls... 

This 6-month-old baby had foot prints on tiles. She looked having a great sensation from the brush strokes!

Our neighbour Indigo and his friend Finn painted on tiles and mugs. I was impressed to see them being so concentrated! 
It is a great fun for kids. If you're interested, please get in touch with me. We're thinking of regular workshops for kids and adults.


先週末と先々週末の2週間にわたり、Open studioをしていました。今年は他のスタジオメイトの都合が悪く、1ヶ月程前にスタジオに入ったMeganと二人だけで準備をすることになりました。私はインフルエンザのような症状で体調を悪くしていたので、大した事をすることはできなかった分、Meganにいろいろ助けてもらいました。
最後の日曜はworkshopを企画したのですが、常におチビたちが遊びに来て、楽しかったです。おチビたちの作業そのものを楽しむ姿は、いつ見ても初心を思い出させてくれます。趣味で始めた頃はとらわれるものもなくて、ホント楽しかったものです。少しずつ腕が上がるにつれ、未熟なところがいっぱい見えてくるので、損なものです、、、。