174 - Lustrous and Drab

I bought a couple of very cheap lustre ware jugs today from Sue Ryder. I love them. Now I have several. I might sell some of them during Open Studios next year, with posies in them.

I discovered there is another type of antique ceramics called drab ware. It's a bit like the difference between minimalism and (the newly coined) maximalism. Lustre ware is full on carnival razzle and drab ware is Puritan magnolia.

I didn't write much about Hampshire Open Studios. Had a lovely day out driving down and through the New Forest with friend Christine. But I wasn't really blown away by SPUDworks. The graduate artists' work was good though. They were four, crammed into one studio space, however the space was gorgeous with tall windows all along the front.

We met a mature student studying art, who had done a rather beautiful, funny drawing of Sylvia Plath as a pregnant melon. I'll leave that to your imagination.