I have just finished reading The White Road: Journey into an Obsession by Edmund de Waal. He is exemplary. He works as a potter while writing. His education as a potter was hands on with a pupil of Bernard Leach and one year in Japan, and his education as a writer began at Cambridge where he studied English Literature. His Hare with Amber Eyes is a wonderful book—his books are about journeys that he has made. The reader makes them too.
Yesterday evening my friend Catherine showed me two lovely original pieces of pottery not at all like Edmund de Waal’s pottery but still lovely.
Pot decorated with fish scales
Japanese pot