Pet Gods

I suppose if the pets had religion we would be their gods, so i gave a baby human to the bird woman to offer to the others as a god

Candelabra

I'm making a 3 candle candle stick, dont know whats about, animal religion I think, don't really think animals have religion ,but my pets love me and thats a complex emotion

Bird woman

I made a bird-woman creature tonight. She is small, the size of my hand and a bit delicate i dont know if she will hold together while drying nevermind firing!

Skull

I took the decorated and glazed skull out of the klin, I really like it met Frank at the railway station in Limerick to do a bit of painting

Pet Pieta

I seem to be a bit obsessed with the pets at the moment. So I've done a pet pieta It's only a joke but by copying michelangelo s pieta, I've learnt it. I know in my version the hands and feet are placed a little differently but I'll remember forever where he placed his and the exact drape of the body. I've learnt an awfull lot from this little exercise, imagine how much I could have learnt if my art education had been an old style one with months and even years copying old masters and plaster casts, but I suppose it was a differant kind of art then

Portrait of the artist as an old man

Painted the skull I like it a lot I also made a life size clay of my head,creepy

Evil Kittens

I glazed my evil kitten bowl it looks nice. I also fired the skull to bisque, I might leave it at that Went diving yesterday and brought back these urchin shells, they are nice. The sort of thing a ceramicist would like. Was joined by a dolphin for a half hour while diving he came right up and held his eye up aginst my mask and stared into my eye,quite weird

id

Made a top for the skull. The little fellow on the top is the irrational little monster that makes you do all those dumb things that seemed like such a good idea at the time. I also underglazed the evil kitten bowl

Skull

I made a skull from clay. being a dentist and understanding anatomy was handy, knowing the shape of the individual bones , how they fit and buttress each other Went painting with Jim and Monika in Peoples park this morning. I painted a victorian water fountain I like it

Nice Jugs

My glazed jugs have just come out of the klin.I'm pleased with them

home alone

Unusually i'm alone in the house tonight. Only my two evil kittens and Hero the silly dog for company, board, I made a pot and somehow the 2 kittens and dog ended up in it. just come back from 5 days going up river in my boat. I did apainting at dawn each morning, except the last when I was a bit hungover