by Bunty | May 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
Our oven has stopped working. Not to worry – Raku kiln to the rescue. Now we make tea at 864 Fahrenheit.
by Bunty | May 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
Cocobel makes the most delicious chocolate with our world famous Trinidad cocoa. Isabel, creator of Cocobel offered me a commission to bring the forest into the shop. I started making the mosaic murals in 2019 and we installed the fourth one, Monstera in 2022. I used...
by Bunty | May 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
In Trinidad years ago people would build houses with a wooden frame and then construct the walls with clay and straw in the method of “wattle and daub” or tapia, as it is know locally. I have always wanted to learn this art and the opportunity recently came along to...
by Bunty | May 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
In the Time of Covid I found myself looking around for something new to challenge me. I had imported some St. Thomas Body stoneware clay a few years before. Deonarine very kindly threw these pots for me as they were too big for me to handle. The last thing he said...
by Bunty | May 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Central Bank Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago recently acquired my favourite piece of work, “Fish Abundance”, for their permanent collection. The pieces are made of locally dug terra cotta clay, glazed and fired and assembled to form the mosaic. Size...
by Bunty | Mar 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
Potters work hard. As Bunty’s sister used to say, either you are breaking the ice on top of a bucket of glaze, or if you live in the Caribbean, tearing out your hair while you try to dry pots out while the rain pours down outside your workshop day after day. We choose...
by Bunty | Mar 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
“In the calm exile of work, we first learn patience, which in turn teaches energy and energy gives us eternal youth made of self collectedness and enthusiasm. From such vantage we can see and understand life, this delicious life that we denature by the artifices of...
by Bunty | Mar 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
Houses in Trinidad were built of clay and dried grass with a timber frame back in the old time days. Bunty and Rory were lucky to find and photograph some of these treasures before time and termite ants utterly destroyed them all. Bunty copied them in clay and added...
by Bunty | Dec 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
This lovely commission was installed in September at La Vega Garden Centre in a grove of mango trees and bamboo. The design comes from 17th century Germany. Mary wears a red dress and stands on a crescent moon with a snake under her foot. Bunty made the knots by...
by Bunty | Dec 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
There used to be a mud oven in Brasso, but it dissolved and fell apart. Bunty and Rory and a gang of friends decided to rebuild. They had a BOOK OF INSTRUCTIONS! Really! They used tons of clay. At one point they had to drive out and find an old ant nest and dig into...
