by Ruby Taylor | Dec 5, 2023 | All Journal Entries, Courses, Foraging, Wild Pottery
What is Clay?Ask this of anyone and they’ll most likely reply ‘mud’. And although that may seem true on the face of it, there’s a lot more to clay than that. Clay has been formed over millions of years, since the time of the glaciers. It’s is made up of a number...
by Ruby Taylor | Jun 16, 2021 | All Journal Entries, Wild Basketry, Wild Pottery
I talk with the founder of Plants & Colour, Flora Arbuthnott, about how I approach working with wild gathered materials in my creative practice. Intimacy with the landscape, the living world, plants, earth, other creatures, has always been meaningful to me as a...
by Ruby Taylor | Mar 12, 2021 | All Journal Entries, Wild Basketry, Wild Pottery
I talk with Kim Winter, editor at the Basketmakers Association, about my practice. KW: How did you get into making baskets with foraged materials? The training I had at degree level (3D Craft, Brighton Uni) was formative, being materials led. I remember in the first...
by Ruby Taylor | May 2, 2020 | All Journal Entries, Courses, Foraging, Wild Pottery
Ankle-deep and barefoot in the cold stream (or thigh-deep as we were one April after a long rainy period), grubbing away at an exposed seam of clay. It’s just like being a child again, squidging clay between our fingers, stirring memories of making mud pies,...
by Ruby Taylor | May 22, 2013 | All Journal Entries
At the 2013 Ice Age Art exhibition at the British Museum I spent some time studying the baked clay animals in the show. They’re mostly small fragments, around 2-4cm in size. Despite their smallness and lack of detail they’re exquisite and the essence of the animals is...