Studio Life - Gillies Jones Blog

A trip to Scarbrough on Saturday to play the penny waterfalls with the kids (now 2p waterfalls ) revealed a uniquely Yorkshire spelling.

Can’t spell for toffee myself , so loved this !

Well home was just over those hills !

The Journey home across the Pennines on the M62 in the high wind was an adventure….but as always there is something just plain amazing to look at.

( Stephen was driving )

Our Orange Aesculus was all over town for the Design Show Liverpool ! Mad ! Good show, met many new great people both makers and customers, thank you to all who visited the stand, especially the familiar faces which are especially welcome in an unfamiliar city… and a special thank you to ‘Taxi Paul ‘ for taking such good care of me

We were high up in the CUC building affording a great view over the city, which made the 10am to 10pm days more bearable.

Back to the band room in Farndale ( again.. what a great venue ) on the night of the 14th. Loved it ! and the CD just gets better with each play. Sadie has an amazing voice and an honesty and integrity in her performance, music and presentation which is rare. Love the acoustic Buzzcocks cover ! Link in associates have a listen to her first CD ‘The Blacksmiths Girl’.

The show opened on Saturday 14th. Thank you to everyone who visited. I am pleased with the results. Its been good to make a good body of work.

Just returned from 6 wonderful, sunshine filled days in Denmark. 30′c on Sunday and swimming in the sea we were, unbelievable and glorious.

Visited the new Ebeltoft Glass Museum and many glass making friends whose hospitality was as ever, generous. Thank you.

Good to see the new extension to the museum and the current shows ( see link )

Counting down to showing 12 new pieces of sculptural blown glass in the Rosedale studio.

New cutting, more asymetrical forms and flowing surfaces. Its been good to make a group of pieces and make them successively. Its when the work starts to become self referential that is begins to get interesting and new ways of developing each piece become obvious . Each one a development of the last.

Opening Day June 14th 10am - 4pm

through to July 20th 2008 ( usual studio hours apply )

Margo is a textile deigner who has her own shop and studio gallery in Bloomsbury London.

We have some of our small bowls on show as part of the latest exhibition entitiled ‘Flora’ which runs from 29th may - 30th August. Look for the link.

Its coming round awful quickly. Looks like it will be a very good show. Pleased to have had one of our images used in the publicity. We will be showing Aesculus and production bowls during the 4 day event. Link in associates.

19th - 22nd June Contemporary Urban Centre , Liverpool

We will be on Stand 51

Visited the V&A on Saturday to present a prize to Simon Davies for his engraving which was inspired by Japanese Culture. Now in its 9th year , the competition is run by the V&A as part of Adult learners week and is a great way to inspire and involve students. Simons work, said something to me about the pursuit of good, workmanship, the beauty of the material, and ultimately his potential to communicate personal interest and make comment on his source, his interests were clearly inspired by his experience at the V&A.

It was a difficult decision and the selection had to be made through the images supplied by the students. I am pleased to say that Simons image did manage to capture some of the important and beautiful qualities of his piece.

Inspired by link in associates.