tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46613949867662973162024-03-05T08:03:01.644+00:00Export of North Devon Pottery to America's Eastern SeaboardThis blog is about my trip to Virginia and North Carolina over 6 weeks in September and October 2010 and what happened afterwards. I travelled on a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust travel Fellowship and researched the export of North Devon Pottery and made links with the Community of Manteo, North Carolina, Bideford's sister City.Since this trip I have found my own sherds of North Devon Pottery and so have started my own collection. Some of these have been shared with curators back in America.Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-16598328966606414342015-06-24T15:36:00.002+01:002015-06-24T15:36:41.865+01:00The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellows storyI have just had my 'Fellows story' uploaded onto the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust website - here at <a href="http://www.wcmt.org.uk/fellows/stories/sadie-greens-story" target="_blank">Sadie Green's story</a><br />
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The Trust contacted me to say that I had a really interesting story and that they would like to share it on the website in view of this year being the 50th anniversary of Sir Winston's death.<br />
Its a bit of an update on what I have been up to and how both the pottery sherds research and the Art and Community links with Bideford's twin town Manteo have been going .<br />
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You can also see <a href="https://www.facebook.com/northdevonpotsherds" target="_blank">Sadie's pot sherds facebook page</a> for updates too.<br />
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<br />Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-45651118214024483772014-11-24T18:00:00.001+00:002014-11-24T18:00:41.071+00:00The Newfoundland connection<br />
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I am starting to find out about Bideford's relationship with Newfoundland as I have just been invited to join the steering group for a forthcoming project that the Devonshire Association are planning for 2017, celebrating the relationship between Devon and Newfoundland.<br />
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I have come across a fascinating book by Inkerman Rogers, geologist 1866 - 1959 who lived in Bideford. The chapter of his Ships and Shipyards of Bideford book, on the Newfoundland Fisheries starts with this quote:<br />
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<br />Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-22197203095051025232014-10-13T16:08:00.001+01:002014-10-13T16:08:56.389+01:00Local finds part 2 - River Torridge rims<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Its difficult now to go sherding as the beach is very sandy and weedy so its difficult to find anyhting. So for Autumn and Winter I will continue to post some more of my finds.<br />
Here's a small selection of pot rims.<br />
I like rims.<br />
They not only look and feel nice, they are really interesting as they can help to identify a pot's form and and also give a good indication of its size as a whole vessel. Rim charts help with this process too.<br />
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All of these rims were pulled out of the River Torridge, around Instow.<br />
I don't know their age for sure but would say they are probably 17th Century or 18th Century, given the confirmed age of other finds I have discovered from the same area such as the Pipkin in my previous post.<br />
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<br />Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-63602393931144748202014-09-07T19:45:00.000+01:002014-09-07T19:48:52.307+01:00North Devon sherds - local finds part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I will share some of my finds over the next few blog posts which gives me an opportunity to take stock of what's in my collection and to raise the significance or otherwise of the finds. It is also an opportunity to open up these for comment, analysis, appreciation and highlight the relevance and significance of North Devon's Pottery heritage and industry here in Bideford. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This piece is one of my favourites because it really is a fragment, not a sherd, as explained by Rob Hunter Editor of Ceramics in America, because you can see this piece for what it is - or was - rather than a smaller unidentifiable piece of pot. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A Pipkin is a cooking pot, glazed on the inside as this would have been in contact with food. A complete vessel would have had three feet, intended for standing on fire or hearth and a stubby handle on one side. The form goes back to Medieval times and the 17th Century English colonists and planters would have used these cooking vessels in their settlements.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I love this one as its now got sea barnacles encrusted on it from its hundreds of years in the salt water. </span></span></div>
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<br />Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-68446604393021693842014-08-27T17:46:00.000+01:002014-08-27T17:46:07.314+01:00<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had a very positive and exciting meeting last week in Exeter to discuss a project about the relationship between Devon and Newfoundland. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The meeting was with Robin Wootton of the Devonshire Association and their plan for a major project for 2016, all being well. It's very early days and needs lots of planning with hopefully a grant of some sort to fund it. I have been invited to be on the steering group to help make it happen. As a 'can do' person I am looking forward to helping to drive this forward and make it happen for Devon.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I will of course be contributing to the North Devon Pottery 'arm' of the project and look forward to hopefully meeting folks from Newfoundland in due course.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Meanwhile, here's where it is :</span></span><br />
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<br />Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-41063387722180921042014-03-11T18:19:00.002+00:002014-03-11T18:19:33.256+00:00The 17th century Storage jar<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is the photo I took of the 17th century North Devon storage jar at St Nicholas Priory in Exeter and referred to in my previous post. The similarity is striking!<br />
I would say this is the same vessel as the big sherd I found. <br />
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I found this wonderful piece of old pot on Saturday at Instow beach near Bideford. I was making the most of the rare super low Spring tide which gave me the opportunity to explore further out, in places normally still under water.</div>
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This sherd was just lying there waiting to be picked up. I don't know how old it is and pretty sure it is a storage jar. Comparing it to a photo I took of a storage jar from the 1600s in St Nicholas Priory in Exeter it bears an uncanny resemblance! If anyone can shed any light on this do let me know. </div>
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Here's the feedback I have just been sent by Barnstaple library staff. They are comments they received after my talk.<br />
I am glad that it was so well received!<br />
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Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-50268089001319226922013-10-22T20:12:00.000+01:002013-10-22T20:12:23.962+01:00Summary of Talk in Barnstaple, October 19th 2013<br />
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What a lovely 2 hours I spent on Saturday - My talk was well received by a packed audience in the upstairs room at Barnstaple Library, so much so more chairs needed to be found from the store room.<br />
This was me in full swing, talking about the sgrafitto design differences between potters in Bideford and Barnstaple and how designs found in sherds at a dig in Bideford's Stella Maris Convent in 1999/2000 have pointed to the origins of finds found at Jamestown's May - Hartwell site being from a pottery in Bideford (thanks to John Allan's research and paper written up for a Devon Archaeology Society Journal). This contains North Devon pot sherds dating to the first half of the 17th century.<br />
Chatting over a cup of tea afterwards, there was a lot of interest and lots of questions as well as very giving people who were sharing knowledge of, as well as enthusiasm about, North Devon Pottery.<br />
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Thanks to all who came and to the library staff for organising, publicising and providing refreshments.<br />
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Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-79373487578016421172013-09-28T14:27:00.000+01:002013-10-22T09:07:36.584+01:00Your invitation to my Talk in Barnstaple, October 19th 2013I have been invited to give a talk about the export of Bideford Pottery to the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. Its on October 19th at Barnstaple library at 2pm, do come over if you are interested. <br />
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I'll also be bringing some sherds and fragments I have found locally. These are mostly 17th century, sgrafitto and plainware and will be available to share and handle. Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-72081993176829523452013-09-10T22:08:00.001+01:002013-09-10T22:17:13.297+01:002013 updateThis year has been quite a busy one and so much so I have forgotten to update my blog! I have continued to find and collect sherds off the local beach, I will post some more about this as I have some exciting finds including more beautiful sgrafitto pieces.<br />
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I have given some talks to Community groups about my experiences in America and my growing sherd collection. Also, significantly, I was invited to be guest speaker at this year's Bideford Town Council's Manor Court event in March - my talk was about the Export of North Devon Pottery and its links to the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. In particular I shared the fact that I had found a sherd of pottery here that has exactly the same design as pottery found at Jamestown VA, which perfectly completes the circle and cements the link between the two places, where the pottery went and its trade routes. I was delighted to receive a sgrafitto plate made and decorated by our very own Harry Juniper!<br />
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I was excited to learn earlier this year that the North Devon Pottery Festival event is happening in September in Bideford. It is exciting for me as I had discussions with potter Philip Leach upon my return from Virginia and North Carolina following my Churchill Fellowship in 2010. Philip was really inspired by my trip and research and the photos and experiences I shared with him. He wanted to create some sort of event to be able to make some new work in the traditional North Devon style, to celebrate the historical link. The rest, so they say, is history and John Edgeler has done a great job in obtaining an Arts Council Grant and pulling together an important Ceramics Festival for Bideford.Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-80934386930988769872011-10-12T17:54:00.001+01:002011-10-12T18:00:25.254+01:00Talk at Churchill Fellows Day<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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On Saturday I gave a talk at the South West branch of the Churchill Trust - a Fellows day, attended by previous Churchill Fellows and members of the group.<br />
I was invited to speak, to present information about my experiences on my Fellowship in 2010. It was a nerve-wracking time and I was third on, just before lunch so had to speak when everyone was hungry and following the news that England had lost the World cup semi-final!<br />
The talk was very well received and there was a lot of interest - so much so that all through lunch there was a constant stream of people waiting to talk to me and ask me questions, which was great.<br />
The picture above is of me in full flow, showing the 35 people or so in the audience some examples of sherds of pottery I have found locally since my return. The start of the Green House Ceramics Collection.<br />
I had a good chat with Bill Nicholson who organised the event and who also took a group photo at the end of all the speakers to post onto the Winston Churchill Trust web site - watch this space!<br />
Overall a very good day and it left me inspired to do more talks and to continue collecting sherds, sharing what I can find out about North Devon Pottery and its export and to continue to develop the Arts exchange programme with Manteo NC. <br />
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<br />Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-26307424139757125162011-10-07T14:17:00.004+01:002011-10-09T14:49:48.477+01:00Visiting John Allan in Exeter<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTjVcFjoZV7ozksBOOmcJkAr8rbP9x2HB7u34xBI6LZASRbUQ-0Cp3RYvGUQ3FOYOZsp8ek3ESXcAsRbyv48nlTb-azA0wIMPXKyyNKOq4JtEF_MWqkhfKB3ck0nVRjMB-XR9yIMOMSrNe/s1600/John+Allan+at+Exeter+City+Council.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTjVcFjoZV7ozksBOOmcJkAr8rbP9x2HB7u34xBI6LZASRbUQ-0Cp3RYvGUQ3FOYOZsp8ek3ESXcAsRbyv48nlTb-azA0wIMPXKyyNKOq4JtEF_MWqkhfKB3ck0nVRjMB-XR9yIMOMSrNe/s320/John+Allan+at+Exeter+City+Council.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660739691862702738" border="0" /></a>I took a selection of items from the ‘GreenHouse Ceramics Collection’, including an assortment of gravel tempered plain ware (a baluster pot, rims and handles, glazed and unglazed) as well as some prized pieces of sgrafitto. <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">It was such a joy and pleasure to have someone else look at the pieces and offer up some response, explanations and information.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">John was particularly interested in the baluster pot sherd. The bottom half of this tall jar, a piece 5 inches tall with a diameter of 4 inches. I talked to him about the pot I saw in Virginia with Karen Shriver at the Flowerdew Hundred collection. That one had been identified as being dated around 1625. John commented that these pots were only made in the 1600’s and not any later, so my sherd is quite a find!</p> <p class="MsoNormal">We discussed the sgraffito pieces in the context of the designs that were being produced in the 1600’s and alongside a book that John gave me – a 2005 Devonshire Association publication which included an article part written by John about a site in Bideford that was excavated on the former Stella Maris convent school site. Here 17<sup>th</sup> and 18<sup>th</sup> Century pottery was found and photographs and drawings had been produced of the sgrafitto (and plainware) found there, it’s distinctive and common patterns. It was possible to look at these images with my sgrafitto sherds to indentify which patterns and designs featured. These include the geometric, leaves, floral, and spiral patterns. John explained how a compass was used to layout the points for leaves so there was a uniform shape and size all the way around a vessel such as a plate. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">At the end of the visit, John was encouraging me to keep adding to the collection – and though I might consider some time to donate some pieces to someone else’s collection -<span style=""> </span>he does not know of another collection from the Instow area, so mine is the first and deserves to be continued for some time yet. </p>Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-2035056244629755742011-08-16T18:48:00.013+01:002011-08-16T21:37:19.342+01:00Dr Klingelhofer comes to visit<div><div><div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN-YS7mVLhx9abQRiHfLvwLz5iWiNhlXZWPLQeBsI7j6v_1p7nTe1ylh1y9DN7jndZSwG1X6CPeN8CXExJuhRcNegqFaZQ-OEIZbEbTnF4UsprpoNvqhMKNcBLCvU5FxJx299IA7H1kjoO/s1600/first_friday_aug2011+12%25C3%2582DaveGreen.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 240px; height: 320px; float: left; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5641514705681560114" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN-YS7mVLhx9abQRiHfLvwLz5iWiNhlXZWPLQeBsI7j6v_1p7nTe1ylh1y9DN7jndZSwG1X6CPeN8CXExJuhRcNegqFaZQ-OEIZbEbTnF4UsprpoNvqhMKNcBLCvU5FxJx299IA7H1kjoO/s320/first_friday_aug2011+12%25C3%2582DaveGreen.JPG" border="0" /></a>Just had a great visit from Dr Eric Klingelhofer, eminent archaeologist and History professor at Mercer Uni, Georgia USA. Eric is also vice-president of the First Colony Foundation who are based in Manteo, North Carolina. Eric was wonderful company whilst he stayed with us in Bideford. I showed him my sherds and we re-named it the Green House Ceramics collection - he was most impressed by the sheer number of pieces found up the river Torridge.<div>Eric told me that some pieces of pottery have been discovered on Roanoke Island which date back to pre-1600 and grit free (found in the same context in Ireland). They would have been from jars, probably balluster jars, which would have been used for containing preserved food, anything from butter to fish. These jars were probably then re-used as containers in the process of assaying minerals.</div><div> </div><div>The photograph was taken by my husband Dave - Eric is laying flowers at St Mary's Church in Bideford in memory of Rawley, the native American who was brought to the town by Sir Richard Grenville in 1586 following a skirmish on the Island. A member of the Grenville household, Rawley was baptised a Christian and later died and was buried in the Church in 1589, along with one of Richard's daughters Rebecca. In the back ground with Sadie is Andy Powell, Bideford Town Councillor and author of 'Grenville and the Lost Colony of Roanoke'</div></div></div></div></div>Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-23310341105962345302011-06-14T19:59:00.004+01:002011-06-14T20:18:51.165+01:00Report now finished<div>Well I haven't written a post in a while, but things have been moving on quietly behind the scenes in the pottery world in Bideford.</div><div>I have recently completed and sent off my <a href="http://www.wcmt.org.uk/reports/785_1.pdf">report for the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust </a>which makes me a Fellow now and I even have my official yellow membership card. I delivered my presentation to the Friends of the Burton Art Gallery and Museum AGM in April and really enjoyed lunch after, chatting to artist and collector RJ Lloyd who lives in Bideford and was responsible for the ceramics collection that the Burton Gallery now own. A book has been published to accompany the collection and 12 of these are in North Carolina and Virginia, with various folks and collections I got to see during my Fellowship trip.</div><div>I am also booked in to deliver a presentation about my Fellowship at a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust function in Exeter, Devon in October. </div><div> </div><div>I have recently given up one of my part-time jobs so that frees up some time to devote to going back on the pottery trail and to setting up some more talks and opportunities to share my findings. I am still searching along the tidal river Torridge near to Bideford for sherds and adding to the collection nicely. In fact I can't go for a walk now without looking at the ground and examining anything that remotely looks like the right colour for pottery! </div><div> </div><div>I am pleased to say that Alison Grant's book 'North Devon Pottery' is back in print and I have just purchased my own copy at long last to enable me to make reference to her findings.</div><div> </div>Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-31524675464141409702011-02-14T17:04:00.007+00:002011-02-14T17:22:26.870+00:00Talk at North Devon Arts<div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglIuH8VYYJowSxahXkODXF22ruF_YcKECMDkLMFwviKJfp_uzUwBr1Ar1LU7KMz-lLc58U1jlF1bu5UAZND6mhnVl3BlWlgYeSVx1pEUGpU3WNgUhTM58CS8WLDltY-pMFb2_WJfr1KDak/s1600/Sadie+NDA+2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 154px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573595257292742946" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglIuH8VYYJowSxahXkODXF22ruF_YcKECMDkLMFwviKJfp_uzUwBr1Ar1LU7KMz-lLc58U1jlF1bu5UAZND6mhnVl3BlWlgYeSVx1pEUGpU3WNgUhTM58CS8WLDltY-pMFb2_WJfr1KDak/s400/Sadie+NDA+2.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-family:Verdana;">I gave my first talk last Wednesday night at North Devon Arts (NDA), at Broomhill Art Hotel near Barnstaple. I have been a member of NDA for a while and it was a really great thing to experience time in the ‘presenter’s seat’ for a change, having gone to many meetings and been an audience member. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKVDV1a5CuuGCSJItEekBJT2glJLnzZxfz3bNA5mPsiYsdFPX3dGRh_WKvnkq7HPm7jWAiq_7rmVosPPHH0yKU2CNgDAdwIAafyI8P27piHbiJp9f3ftwWKPstMhMD7ly79tN2dNwOLOdF/s1600/Sadie+NDA+1.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573595651748211266" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKVDV1a5CuuGCSJItEekBJT2glJLnzZxfz3bNA5mPsiYsdFPX3dGRh_WKvnkq7HPm7jWAiq_7rmVosPPHH0yKU2CNgDAdwIAafyI8P27piHbiJp9f3ftwWKPstMhMD7ly79tN2dNwOLOdF/s200/Sadie+NDA+1.jpg" /></a></span><br /><br /><div><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">I went to great length to prepare a good talk that covered both aspects of my Churchill Fellowship – the export of Pottery and the Manteo twinning connection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I wanted to disseminate what I had learned about the pottery trade and shared examples from all of the collections that I had seen. I also brought along some pieces from my sherd collection and it gave the audience a chance to handle bits of old pot, a bit like I did in America.</span><br /></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">I brought some props with me and quoted from some books. My Manteo baseball hat was put on at one stage and the Manteo water bottle and plastic dumpster truck were held aloft!<br /></span><br /></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">What was particularly special was that as well as a round of applause at the end, several people came up to me afterwards and told me how much they had enjoyed the talk and enjoyed my enthusiasm. Also 3 lots of people came out especially to hear my talk, who haven’t been to an NDA meeting for some time.</span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">All in all a lovely evening, thank you to NDA for including me in your programme and for the complimentary glass of wine and meal, which were both delicious.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">My next talk booked in is on April 16th at the Friends of the Burton AGM.</span></p></div></div></div>Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-22914474806301490722011-02-05T20:23:00.002+00:002011-02-15T16:34:14.583+00:00My North Devon Pottery collection grows a bit, in bits!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjplVDQdziRpk1L-UpxB0SQHtw6V-XUKGZXpoBXbSZeO0unDtzmyH1w_f0ljXSE916ixKI42qrC6rv-V9IpUs7dOvGW-8D1ZySCKFVlXmjVr4p2HrXmP3NtK_YjXZj7cx_t3bE3iQG3jKlj/s1600/Sadie+Sherd+Hunting.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573955389033938898" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjplVDQdziRpk1L-UpxB0SQHtw6V-XUKGZXpoBXbSZeO0unDtzmyH1w_f0ljXSE916ixKI42qrC6rv-V9IpUs7dOvGW-8D1ZySCKFVlXmjVr4p2HrXmP3NtK_YjXZj7cx_t3bE3iQG3jKlj/s320/Sadie+Sherd+Hunting.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">My collection of North Devon pottery was added to in January. I already have some complete plainware jugs with slip around the rim, probably 19th century, although this has not been verified.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;"></span></o:p></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">I now have found some sherds on the coast, a mixture of glazed plainware (different colours but mainly olive green glaze) and a couple of pieces of sgrafitto. Very exciting, and some of it looks like the photos of the finds I was shown in America! It felt really great to be back on home territory and find equally old pieces on the beaches here.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;"></span></o:p></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">I went to visit Doug Fitch in his studio near Crediton to show him my collection and to talk about my trip to Virginia and North Carolina. Doug was very intrigued by it all and enthusiastically showed me some of his collection – he has quite a collection of North Devon Pottery and is a huge fan and advocate of it. His own work is highly influenced, producing beautiful pots featuring slipware and sgrafitto.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;"></span></o:p></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">One sherd, a chunky and heavy piece of plainware with a handle was Doug’s favourite and he couldn’t put it down. I was even treated to a demonstration on his wheel of making a pot with a pulled over handle over the rim, to explain how the rim of the pot represented by the sherd was formed. He also said you can tell the maker of a pot by the handle – the size of it is unique and depends on the maker’s hand size.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;"></span></o:p></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">As always a fascinating visit and a treat. Thank you Doug for being so generous with both information and enthusiasm.</span></span></p>Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-88107125436833194862011-02-05T20:20:00.001+00:002011-02-05T20:23:49.124+00:002011 so far...<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">I have been working on various things so far this year, writing my report for the Winston Churchill Trust, visiting the Museum of North Devon and Barnstaple to talk to curator Ruth Spires about their collection and adding to my own collection.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">I spoke to Ruth before Christmas about my fellowship trip and what I discovered in Virginia and North Carolina. Ruth told me that someone studying for a Phd (Alice Forward of Cardiff University) was visiting from Wales in January so I arranged to come back again at the same time so we could exchange information, finds and notes. I actually visited the Museum on February 3rd – when I arrived Alice was in the covered yard at the Museum with David Dawson, who has 40 years experience of identifying pottery. They both had their heads buried in boxes of sherds and it was quite a sight as there are rows and rows of boxes and boxes of finds. Ruth told me that a lot are from an archaeological dig in the 80’s when the new library site in Barnstaple was being developed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">We all went into the main Museum and compared sherds – I shared some recent finds from the North Devon Coast and Alice had some wonderful pieces of sgrafitto ware from the Valley between Swansea and Cardiff. David identified a couple of my sgraffito pieces as being 17th Century. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">It was fascinating talking to him as he can identify a pot’s form and size from a relatively small piece. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">I will return to the Museum some time soon and take a look at their collection. I will need a few hours to spare as it is so large but it is quite a significant collection of pottery from Barnstaple and Bideford and area.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-10792184992612998272011-01-07T18:17:00.011+00:002011-01-07T23:28:00.768+00:00Flowerdew Collection<span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Driving to see this collection near Charlottesville, VA, was an amazing experience - I had an address and a google map but it was unexpectedly a lovely place to visit, with a gated entrance and a man in charge of visitors who welcomed me and gave me permission to proceed up the private driveway. What a start!</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9XvMZkBa1LvcNrYwlstbFtCq7-IcHYI_JHrj96yIkW6rMiRDTQYeZTJ0UamAOyck3uYmGYQm30QdpVoXM8SO3jTx6D8hcGRPN6lw2j5Sfol1xxKE9D-35bwDrCNFZkkSkv4ii9jxfNm00/s1600/Flowerdew_Collection+%25C2%25A9Dave_Green_02.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 162px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559513181247420498" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9XvMZkBa1LvcNrYwlstbFtCq7-IcHYI_JHrj96yIkW6rMiRDTQYeZTJ0UamAOyck3uYmGYQm30QdpVoXM8SO3jTx6D8hcGRPN6lw2j5Sfol1xxKE9D-35bwDrCNFZkkSkv4ii9jxfNm00/s200/Flowerdew_Collection+%25C2%25A9Dave_Green_02.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;">A fascinating trip to view some of this collection, held by University of Virginia, solidifies exactly the direct link between the tobacco and pottery trade between Bideford and the Eastern Seaboard of America. </span><br /><br /><div><div><div><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Flowerdew Hundred dates back to c1620, is on the James River and was in essence a tobacco plantation and factory and saw the “transformation of English Settlers into Americans” (from Commerce and Conflict: The English in Virginia, Flowerdew Hundred Foundation). During a time of peace with the local tribes, there was an opportunity for the English to expand their settlements and for colonists to take over the Indian’s abandoned villages. Flowerdew Hundred was established in this way and was “one of the earliest and most important of the large, privately owned plantations established in Virginia during the tobacco boom years 1617-1625” (from Commerce and Conflict).</span> </p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8rC4XKlO40buVhr1WWwPBHXpvG2IGSOUshofv495oIxglHfgxHc1j4EC0ASehOhUmyPjP9j17zVv9IpT1vQre816yJXksUAZMw4TdXuUIRnssOWq16s4MQDslRGHUYT2dysCp30ZKtGrZ/s1600/Flowerdew_Collection+%25C2%25A9Dave_Green_15.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 190px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559512277156249858" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8rC4XKlO40buVhr1WWwPBHXpvG2IGSOUshofv495oIxglHfgxHc1j4EC0ASehOhUmyPjP9j17zVv9IpT1vQre816yJXksUAZMw4TdXuUIRnssOWq16s4MQDslRGHUYT2dysCp30ZKtGrZ/s200/Flowerdew_Collection+%25C2%25A9Dave_Green_15.jpg" /></a></p><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 159px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559511740493328290" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLcVU8zd5Bb7DX0iIaiIY9is2ngQtmGR0hXJbABfY5k9sN4tLtwbukDZCMffDrsscXHZ8OahgE9yaKPwIWhatZY7V4rQmFXPBM69v91QhXTLYiNeX4oavpYpO1-unPfPYRdxD6o-YkCcuV/s200/Flowerdew_Collection+%25C2%25A9Dave_Green_03.jpg" /><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKwT8Tb9BEFV9Pd8i2KQQAYuPWWf1wI4sXhE0Ghyy3RqSZshGQ7uiPaTGtUtCfJ9SmmRls7O2Duo3qUIJeUI0WXJOLi0_qcFJwKg4IfvFwzO49L7N2m-q0DQq1jitjkSBGgMPG9pxZdDKM/s1600/Flowerdew_Collection+%25C2%25A9Dave_Green_17.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559512656770469810" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKwT8Tb9BEFV9Pd8i2KQQAYuPWWf1wI4sXhE0Ghyy3RqSZshGQ7uiPaTGtUtCfJ9SmmRls7O2Duo3qUIJeUI0WXJOLi0_qcFJwKg4IfvFwzO49L7N2m-q0DQq1jitjkSBGgMPG9pxZdDKM/s200/Flowerdew_Collection+%25C2%25A9Dave_Green_17.jpg" /></a>It also has some of the richest and best preserved English settlement sites in the US. There are many examples of pottery, mainly plainware in their collection. I visited Karen Shriver, curator of the collection near Charlottesville – Karen introduced me to the collection and then pulled a few pieces for me to see and photograph. These vessels included a lovely ballister pot, c1624-28, most likely used to transport butter; a milk pan base with a green glaze and several smaller gravel tempered sherds, some with a lead glaze c1650 -1775. All these pieces have been identified as originating from North Devon.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><em>Photographs taken by Dave Green, with permission given to use them courtesy of The Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia</em></span></div></div></div>Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-89843044110809737652010-11-17T16:14:00.000+00:002010-11-17T17:45:20.692+00:00Colonial Williamsburg Foundation<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2mycmde8_Uh9AHWrNSDrJfXFAx7A4qc0ekSJ3JAVA1yAVd5Lnh6lcY8QKiMUId547zFvrqVnaJrISZfV7Fgnr3jJIK-jpSy_GV7VVADsrcOXgkxLYpY3uf_gH19tICcdr846LMX5cBq7N/s1600/Colonial+Williamsburg+Collection+%25C2%25A9Dave_Green_01.jpg"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 156px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540553403948008946" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2mycmde8_Uh9AHWrNSDrJfXFAx7A4qc0ekSJ3JAVA1yAVd5Lnh6lcY8QKiMUId547zFvrqVnaJrISZfV7Fgnr3jJIK-jpSy_GV7VVADsrcOXgkxLYpY3uf_gH19tICcdr846LMX5cBq7N/s200/Colonial+Williamsburg+Collection+%25C2%25A9Dave_Green_01.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> During<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the last week of the Fellowship I had an appointment to visit Kelly Ladd, curator at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s archaeological collections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This was exciting because I had already been to Williamsburg during the first week of my trip and I was so pleased that Eric Klingelhofer suggested that I return to the town and see another collection.<br /><br /></span><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:verdana;">To quote the Foundation’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>website “(the Foundation)….conducts original research on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century colonial archaeology and material culture,…..The Department also oversees the largest colonial-period archaeological collection in the United States, consisting of several million objects and fragments recovered during more than 60 years of excavation; extensive comparative historic-period faunal and archaeobotanical collections; and the Martin’s Hundred collection of early seventeenth-century material culture” It is the last sentence about Martin’s Hundred collection that is particularly relevant<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>to the North Devon pottery finds.</span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Martin’s Hundred was one of the earliest 17<sup>th</sup> century plantations, located along the James River and was settled in 1619 by the English.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Richard Carter bought the land in the early 1700s and built on this earlier site. </span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Kelly had pulled a lot of finds for me when I arrived and they were split into 2 categorie</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEyYE2xmt3mu6L3lBfpYmkjAZ8PznC7PS46JYQ93XlbOUqq002JjwJvbfMaTcy_t1jssh6Sl5CV2OEY85DjtcLh0qs165qrJeKb1WQhiZaXqlwU1t4ehasUU-xlvBzCMsUin_u7SEIlaXx/s1600/Colonial+Williamsburg+Collection+%25C2%25A9Dave_Green_10.jpg"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 179px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540554057372792802" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEyYE2xmt3mu6L3lBfpYmkjAZ8PznC7PS46JYQ93XlbOUqq002JjwJvbfMaTcy_t1jssh6Sl5CV2OEY85DjtcLh0qs165qrJeKb1WQhiZaXqlwU1t4ehasUU-xlvBzCMsUin_u7SEIlaXx/s200/Colonial+Williamsburg+Collection+%25C2%25A9Dave_Green_10.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">s – 18<sup>th</sup> century plainware and first quarter 17<sup>th</sup> century sgrafitto ware. The former, pottery sherds were excavated in Williamsburg itself and the latter were found at Carter Grove, Martin’s Hundred.<img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 87px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540553730303124386" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkUBKWLhvKGK4MtYxb33dLSxCXGwKIkyPHTmCiQBSbobVLk9CGE47zsl9Dawqf5WLJSGTchdhfkBclAVEmAJJOM9-Zx87RnZDcJLDyMP18JwKz2KaacYEIqYDOwuRdJNTKWe7WK8poQNHn/s200/Colonial+Williamsburg+Collection+%25C2%25A9Dave_Green_07.jpg" /> We talked a lot about the plainware sherds and the colouring of them – I pointed out that it seemed unusual for the North Devon plainware to have <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>grey in it, Kelly said it was a result of the oxidation that occurs during firing (due to the position of the vessel in the kiln and the firing temperature), which gives the red clay a striking grey ‘core’ running through the middle like a liquorice allsort.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:verdana;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 193px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540554617623063666" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-SHPIpgDV9Q05Kko9lSVgIhFKd9iTSTc7YBYE2gJeCCAPeunou9YIa2fuUL9WXtDx4Ojb5GMBGltK_t71plMWopkpWRrnnvQqmxN8NQqTwbRCvcjVaLW4KHgOJAUsFoJkGBaDP6sgdo-N/s200/Colonial+Williamsburg+Collection+%25C2%25A9Dave_Green_22.jpg" />The 17<sup>th</sup> century sgrafitto ware from Martin’s Hundred was beautiful and amazing to be able to hold something that old that came from North Devon – the finds were of the signature yellow colour glaze with both floral and wavy patterns. Interestingly Kelly also identified what the Foundation believes to be local copies of North Devon slipware in amongst the collection, some of which were more of an orange colour glaze.<br />Fascinating to think that in the 1600's, North Devon slipware was being copied and they liked the sgrafitto so much to create their own version.</span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Further reference can be made to the Martin’s Hundred site in a book of the same title written by eminent British archaeologist Ivor Noel Hume, which is a fascinating account of how he and his team excavated the site and their archaeological practices.</span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span> </p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Photographs were taken by Dave Green and reproduced By permission of <a href="http://research.history.org/Archaeological_Research.cfm">Colonial Williamsburg Foundation</a>, Archaeological Collections.</span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><span style="font-family:Calibri;"></span></o:p></p>Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-38618792001924058672010-10-30T22:52:00.000+01:002010-10-30T23:18:09.353+01:00The last week of the Fellowship<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVSrOCUUaQr8F-Jfyfwl2LojYENybXGzzFFE1yr2pqXg9Aoc8eVh2eWdPWG_kjuI0IPx6pIW3m7koOPkCnvEwqHGvgHHBYcSxXGvvTr1nvgtPdifv0mD5XMGTMn-ZqXw2JitY1mTmoCnDj/s1600/sade2.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVSrOCUUaQr8F-Jfyfwl2LojYENybXGzzFFE1yr2pqXg9Aoc8eVh2eWdPWG_kjuI0IPx6pIW3m7koOPkCnvEwqHGvgHHBYcSxXGvvTr1nvgtPdifv0mD5XMGTMn-ZqXw2JitY1mTmoCnDj/s200/sade2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533966639811472546" border="0" /></a>I had followed up on some contacts I had been given by archaeologists Eric Deetz and Eric Klingelhofer whilst they were at Fort Raleigh National Park in Manteo, so the last week was planned to be spent back in Virginia on the pottery trail again. <p class="MsoNormal"> I went back to Williamsburg on Tuesday afternoon, via Norfolk Airport to drop off our friend Sally who was visiting from Tucson. I had an appointment with Kelly Ladd, curator at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s archaeological collections.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpxFWiBJtPq67H-H575ozkY6GNoXIxULvqGRch2X7NkszCknunr0pUa1CipPW_-eRZUP-jBiCZCCpgDgNMiIFOCavxEE7kvvmfAp3pRtGVK3z_rQ6VaZ3wWNb_xqwOBe0CWpIlS9DOfyl-/s1600/flowerdew.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpxFWiBJtPq67H-H575ozkY6GNoXIxULvqGRch2X7NkszCknunr0pUa1CipPW_-eRZUP-jBiCZCCpgDgNMiIFOCavxEE7kvvmfAp3pRtGVK3z_rQ6VaZ3wWNb_xqwOBe0CWpIlS9DOfyl-/s200/flowerdew.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533966636551958706" border="0" /></a>During the week I also visited the DeWitt Wallace Museum of Fine Arts; Bly Straube (again) and Merry Outlaw at Preservation Virginia in Jamestown; Karen Shriver at the Flowerdew Hundred Collection, as part of the University of Virginia at their study centre near Charlottesville; Contemporary ceramicist Michelle Erickson’s pottery at Period Designs in Yorktown; and The Department of Historic Resources state archaeology collection of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in Richmond.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYvc5xrJNwUAh06i8j1F2RQR2QDEcfyNyLmDtAkraO7VS1XRUvfH7YtiCGtT4WM01KOSkUDNe71wFbRpyPVmFDlcAM4aEoGyvZ-tu3c_7I8P5CNUtTQIzNyOhT2AVbcVn07rWcnsJLE8Vk/s1600/sade.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYvc5xrJNwUAh06i8j1F2RQR2QDEcfyNyLmDtAkraO7VS1XRUvfH7YtiCGtT4WM01KOSkUDNe71wFbRpyPVmFDlcAM4aEoGyvZ-tu3c_7I8P5CNUtTQIzNyOhT2AVbcVn07rWcnsJLE8Vk/s200/sade.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533966635956765890" border="0" /></a>Each of these appointments and visits were fascinating and definitely put Bideford and North Devon’s slipware and earthenware well and truly on the pottery trail map. They all deserve an individual post accompanied by photos and will be written up shortly.</p>Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-74437923973436186822010-10-30T22:25:00.000+01:002010-10-30T22:35:04.207+01:00Leaving Manteo<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"> The last couple of days in Manteo were very weird and strange as we were involved in a car crash on October 23<sup>rd</sup> and so we had to miss our Bon Voyage Party and waste 2 days waiting for a replacement hire car as the last memory. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">To coin a phrase we were ‘t-boned’ – I was driving and started to turn left at some traffic lights, turning on to a main road and as I pulled out someone ran straight into me driver’s side on as he had gone through a red light. Luckily myself, Dave (who was in the front passenger seat) and our friend Sally (visiting us from Tucson and was in the back) were all not too badly injured. Sally was actually hurt the most and had a ot of bruising and was hardly able to breathe immediately after the accident. Sally and I were whisked off very quickly to the hospital, in separate ambulances, for an MRI to check for any damage. I took a little longer to get out of the car as I had neck and head pain and so the paramedics didn’t want to take any chances and the damaged driver side doors were cut off by the ‘jaws of life’ courtesy of the fire department so I didn’t have to climb out over the passenger side!</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> All of this was expertly handled by the various departments – police, fire, hospital – the driver of the other vehicle was devastated and hung around until we were all on our way to the hospital. His insurance company will handle and pay for all the costs for the car and medical treatment.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> The worst thing was that we missed our Bon Voyage party that had been organised for us by our friend from The Elizabethan Gardens, Carl Curnutte. We did put in a brief appearance on our way home and there were a few people still there, but it was very sad not to have everyone gathered to say goodbye to, eat and drink with, deliver a leaving speech and take final photos of the many great contacts and new friends made. There was a lot of food and rink left over and we were given some 'to go' boxes filled with goodies to eat when we got home. We finally made it home to recover and get over the shock of it all about 3 hours after the accident. Carl Curnutte was amazing - he came to the scene immediately and stayed with us at the hospital, driving us all home. Thank you Carl!<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> The Sunday and Monday were the last 2 days in Manteo and very frustrating as the rental car company had to be dealt with, we had to wait until 4pm on Monday for another vehicle and were going backwards and forwards to the rendezvous point only to have another delay (tho I did borrow a friend’s car on Monday) and also had to fit in packing and tidying and cleaning the house. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">So an unusual and unplanned end to the Manteo side of the fellowship. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">I left feeling that an awful lot had been put into place as very much a starting point for future projects, collaborations, journeys and relationships. A lot has been learnt about how a small town has worked together to plan and develop it, particularly with a view to creating an attractive place for both residents and visitors and to capitalise on the history there. I have drafted a 3-year plan for an Arts Exchange Programme, between Bideford Bay Creatives and Dare County Arts Council initially, with scope for other partners to become involved, including Bideford 500, Burton Art Gallery and Museum in Bideford and The Elizabethan Gardens, The Lost Colony and the Aquarium in Manteo. As the start of the 3-year plan, there is a confirmed 'postcard project' that will happen at the end of May / beginning of June 2011 with an exchange of artist made postcards in Bideford and Manteo and a simultaneous exhibition of them in both towns. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Also the town of Manteo is very excited about and keen to jointly celebrate Bideford's Heritage Day on July 2nd, being organised by Bideford 500's Committee and by me as their Project Development Worker. There will be a live web link up and celebration on the day so that both communities can see and hear each other.<br /></p>Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-51717792350144469402010-10-27T23:30:00.000+01:002010-10-27T23:35:34.773+01:00The Pottery trail unfurls again<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpNe2CwoMXzQxRSARbwMPBsyD1IYc-JEH1T7hTXAnnhyphenhyphenXFyvSpfOLxNpD2gmVZYeer4T6S2Ezvlm5SvJXyPHtdBGNmXavuH-ZrRvYi0c9RkKEfG5A-0SqmPFr1a_7-pxlZvSviQzUrO2W6/s1600/Archeaology1.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpNe2CwoMXzQxRSARbwMPBsyD1IYc-JEH1T7hTXAnnhyphenhyphenXFyvSpfOLxNpD2gmVZYeer4T6S2Ezvlm5SvJXyPHtdBGNmXavuH-ZrRvYi0c9RkKEfG5A-0SqmPFr1a_7-pxlZvSviQzUrO2W6/s200/Archeaology1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5532857623200095618" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ0nB_nHoL8Zm-vYVyREFSL0jobpYEvkntgBYsYA_nhpb58R2zJ5xwy9W1UYBM4Kn0goHBBhVJNnr9ibr-Y_dSxWbShjX58i_u_eYNlGnmbpyewuVfd8gJ6mXYNRqC_DmBlQGJsAdRXajW/s1600/Archeaology2.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ0nB_nHoL8Zm-vYVyREFSL0jobpYEvkntgBYsYA_nhpb58R2zJ5xwy9W1UYBM4Kn0goHBBhVJNnr9ibr-Y_dSxWbShjX58i_u_eYNlGnmbpyewuVfd8gJ6mXYNRqC_DmBlQGJsAdRXajW/s200/Archeaology2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5532857786251982034" border="0" /></a>Mike Z (Zee) and Doug Stover, National Parks Service staff at Fort Raleigh National Park told me that some archaeologists were coming to the Park to do a dig and that I should meet them and contact archaeologist Nick Lucketti, from the First Colony Foundation, to make arrangements to do so. I called Nick and though he isn't coming personally he told me that I need to make contact with them when they arrive. They were coming with students from Mercer University to do a dig near the Earthen Fort. <p class="MsoNormal">He also told me to look out for a book written by Ivor Noel Hulme about artefacts found at the 'Martin's Hundred' site near Williamsburg VA. Its in 2 volumes and volume 2 lists all the finds. I have since borrowed a paperback version about the site from a friend, Brian, and its proving to be a fascinating read so far, with North Devon pottery sherds being identified at the site – more on this later!</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> The 2 Erics – Klingelhofer and Deetz, eminent archaeologists, turned out to be a mine of information and proved to have some great contacts and were extremely generous with passing on names of people / organisations I should make contact with and places I should visit in the future to follow the North Devon Pottery trail. Alas some of these I won't get to visit on this trip as they include St Mary's in Maryland, Newfoundland, Maine, Ireland and Barbados. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Shame I can only do one Winston Churchill Fellowship in my lifetime!</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> Contacts they did give me that I can do on this trip are The De Witt Wallace Museum in Williamsburg, the Flowerdew Hundred Foundation at UVA in Charlottesville and the Department of Historic Resources in Richmond.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> Nothing of any significance was found on the dig, apart from 2 postholes. I have finalised appointments to visit all these places and people this week, when I leave Manteo (the 26<sup>th</sup>) and head back up into Virginia. So a bit of an itinerary change, but an opportunity not to be missed.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-76390294580136309062010-10-18T17:07:00.000+01:002010-10-18T19:43:12.925+01:00The Manteo Arts Scene<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv3yQN7AjyfFZsdT9IHAhVWQnNLO-G6YkHSyRDJsOocVyWL4RiwuNjB1AK1yt44wVpvJ1v2hD1LO5gmXFVRCC_C-GTRqS0X-2EcmHUQlZAmp4kBatNVDB_n2MBKNrlu4KzxVI1T0nY9FtY/s1600/!cid_AE858808-00BE-49AA-8DBE-DFBA94664EE3.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 150px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529420177357328578" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv3yQN7AjyfFZsdT9IHAhVWQnNLO-G6YkHSyRDJsOocVyWL4RiwuNjB1AK1yt44wVpvJ1v2hD1LO5gmXFVRCC_C-GTRqS0X-2EcmHUQlZAmp4kBatNVDB_n2MBKNrlu4KzxVI1T0nY9FtY/s200/!cid_AE858808-00BE-49AA-8DBE-DFBA94664EE3.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwi_bXRVtwBsQUHNMo9y_EPHOmDtSJJ749zub61MiorIxTt83MCs8LMMywhDCYKn9QD20VGlFbfmIwdfCntkegNu3UHh2YcCIDaS-CiCasZC5cgJWFHceNYAvIqt6g-dFGXN34GuXpzuKP/s1600/First_Friday_Oct2010+%C2%A9DaveGreen+08.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529422026372532050" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwi_bXRVtwBsQUHNMo9y_EPHOmDtSJJ749zub61MiorIxTt83MCs8LMMywhDCYKn9QD20VGlFbfmIwdfCntkegNu3UHh2YcCIDaS-CiCasZC5cgJWFHceNYAvIqt6g-dFGXN34GuXpzuKP/s200/First_Friday_Oct2010+%C2%A9DaveGreen+08.jpg" /></a>Since being here I have been making contact with the many art galleries and artists who are here in Manteo, some of whom came to our reception the day after we arrived and have kept in touch. In downtown there are numerous spaces to show and sell artwork – Dare County Arts Council have their new premises with 4 gallery spaces, all showing work by local based artists, (Manteo and the Outerbanks). The people who live here are in 3 categories depending on whether they were born here or have moved, or just visiting (natives, locals and tourists) akin to North Devon's locals, incomers and grockels. The artists are natives or locals. <p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm" class="western"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKNvnU_exxjUGGbg0dmrzvqut9viMz6fZ8_ppmR0CLxSfv7rbSzVvDS_SsjzPt7F2jBkKcZKtyE-LZRuoBl0DUkIf6HtRs_Go_f-fKwOAZ2IZF4uTrSXdkUjSyrkVJrT01vp4AHkNHUX6G/s1600/full+moon.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 156px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529427467413744706" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKNvnU_exxjUGGbg0dmrzvqut9viMz6fZ8_ppmR0CLxSfv7rbSzVvDS_SsjzPt7F2jBkKcZKtyE-LZRuoBl0DUkIf6HtRs_Go_f-fKwOAZ2IZF4uTrSXdkUjSyrkVJrT01vp4AHkNHUX6G/s200/full+moon.jpg" /></a>There are also a few other galleries showing work by a mix of local artists, including Full Moon Gallery, run by Sharon Enoch which is an eclectic mix and includes wine, photography and Sharon's own pottery. A lot of the work in the galleries is very commercial and sells to the visiting tourists, so there are a lot of coastal scenes, birds, flowers, boats - very similar in subject matter to artwork for sale in North Devon. In fact there are more galleries that pop up once you start walking around dowtown, these also include Gallery 101, Endless Possibilities (based on recycled <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivhJhvRyU3hojEaXj6tsK9R9LL2WQVLi6jMDzGxLyCw_tCn8uEwtKO722L5IMd66i2E9TQvuIF5_rPOgK6Jd9gASxIpmRQm_w_QqlOAKY6YRWBaU1utYA2IJAMH-cHjChRi8jJmDcsrykh/s1600/!cid_432191DC-5467-4A15-BA1C-5586D7D15D79.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 150px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529421104661297186" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivhJhvRyU3hojEaXj6tsK9R9LL2WQVLi6jMDzGxLyCw_tCn8uEwtKO722L5IMd66i2E9TQvuIF5_rPOgK6Jd9gASxIpmRQm_w_QqlOAKY6YRWBaU1utYA2IJAMH-cHjChRi8jJmDcsrykh/s200/!cid_432191DC-5467-4A15-BA1C-5586D7D15D79.jpg" /></a>wares), Washed Ashore which has some 'funky' hand <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH_j2btCqm5iudfdXZGpsOmwKHp-q6AM6VI3qSYOvAV2mOAK9oIkT3le0EB4QLOv6dDtbVDpbnblAESyoYnPBC2ah0HTEL444a0pk_NvtHdh0V4U6Lm4OhrHtIvGbZ1CzDEgd0D_2zgCx0/s1600/!cid_5AFD1076-BB2E-471F-9E9E-4C8338183219.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529420361879548274" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH_j2btCqm5iudfdXZGpsOmwKHp-q6AM6VI3qSYOvAV2mOAK9oIkT3le0EB4QLOv6dDtbVDpbnblAESyoYnPBC2ah0HTEL444a0pk_NvtHdh0V4U6Lm4OhrHtIvGbZ1CzDEgd0D_2zgCx0/s200/!cid_5AFD1076-BB2E-471F-9E9E-4C8338183219.jpg" /></a>painted high stools and a kids rocking horse and pottery in the windows of the large downtown book store.</p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm" class="western"><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPoTbkpw7ruoYI5H5CMXe56EMneUPEyg7O7IdFJOMqGn9FEjedg913vdgOBBYwfP2g25-58Z_1R7pG5RwvGls3WQfANFf0ob2m91wTnRUGM7t3dOopqnfGSjbyHY4WXEAHZUaENWbkpQ3M/s1600/wanchese.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 150px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529427417272868322" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPoTbkpw7ruoYI5H5CMXe56EMneUPEyg7O7IdFJOMqGn9FEjedg913vdgOBBYwfP2g25-58Z_1R7pG5RwvGls3WQfANFf0ob2m91wTnRUGM7t3dOopqnfGSjbyHY4WXEAHZUaENWbkpQ3M/s200/wanchese.jpg" /></a>I met the owners and potters at 'Wanchese Pottery' in downtown – so called because they used to live in Wanchese and relocated to Manteo. I have yet to go back and watch Bonny at the wheel but have had a chat with Bob on the porch whilst he was playing with their kitten, who has adopted them. They have a small studio and shop by the Maritime Museum and make a variety of pots. Bob said they are down in stock due to a busy summer season and have different colours, the ones I have seen are different green glazes, from aqua to grass, and Bonny and Bob make mugs, plates, dishes and bowls that hold pebbles with wicks in to act as candles. Another potter is Nancy of 'Nancyware' and she has mainly her own stuff for sale in the shop.</p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm" class="western">Out of town on the main road is Silver Bonsai Gallery – so called because owners and jewellers Ben and Kat have their silver jewellery studio there and run the gallery, but they also sell Bonsai trees! Its an impressive studio at the back of the main gallery so you can see them at work. They also have an employee to help them. When we met they were very busy trying to finish some wedding rings for the upcoming 10/10/10 date, apparently a very popular day to get married. We had made email contact with Ben and Kat a few months ago and they were very keen to get to know the arts community in Bideford, so it was great to finally meet. A lot of the work is by local artists – as well as their own jointly made jewellery, also paintings, photography, textile hats, decorated light switch covers (a very American thing) and pottery. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcFzIvXhJ_ugXdOhp87byaY-qXRZKQtw4jwnTSgUQRYtGXisEqfiSXNaS9o361HvpjN7emIfAI8azkEh8v3XEdjtvXWvymF0vUlbr0sX1_-qjTY8-Pm0obVzBk58zgDL-28UeZtibUWdRm/s1600/!cid_EE456F34-C733-4E74-9CE2-90A09B5E1B14.jpg"><br /></a></p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm" class="western"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUQ5vb3-Iv3s3TGrfbykgA9As1XtDmUYaKc_nUn39_jILrixYiVkWL_2oLFbwQ6dOFV9ejvuayvIgNjilnxj82K94WBL-2Z8kzqHQl6eE12T3rHNk44tHcIxAjEduCZ1g1uPs1OPuOfw4u/s1600/!cid_EE456F34-C733-4E74-9CE2-90A09B5E1B14.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529429918221973954" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUQ5vb3-Iv3s3TGrfbykgA9As1XtDmUYaKc_nUn39_jILrixYiVkWL_2oLFbwQ6dOFV9ejvuayvIgNjilnxj82K94WBL-2Z8kzqHQl6eE12T3rHNk44tHcIxAjEduCZ1g1uPs1OPuOfw4u/s400/!cid_EE456F34-C733-4E74-9CE2-90A09B5E1B14.jpg" /></a>Dave and I met Katy Caroline (she has a mural at Poor Richard;s cafe, above) at First Friday and she won the Beach Book Prize that we judged. She invited us to her art opening at a new venue called 'Art Space' which is at Southern Shores about 20 miles North of Manteo in the OuterBanks. It was good to see her work but also the space – Art Space is a gallery and studio to 3 artists. It's not a huge place but is packed with art on the walls and floors in 2 rooms and the studio areas are in amongst it all. It was fascinating to see that the artists were all working in a relatively small area but producing lots of work, they enjoy feeding off each other in a creative atmosphere, Katy is there every day to paint. I also met a painter who lives in the same area, Rick Nilson. I have seen his work for sale and he has only been painting the past few years. He won the Beach Book prize last year and was there at Katy's opening to support her.</p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm" class="western">At a party on Saturday night I met a potter, Cody Dough, and she was very excited about the twinning and future exchange plans wants to come over to Bideford as soon as she can. I have yet to see her work but will look out for it in the Arts Council galleries as she has some work there.</p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm" class="western">There are many other art galleries and spaces all along the Outer Banks, both to the North, up to Duck and down to Hatteras and Ocracoke to the South. In terms of twinning and exchange activity this area is too vast to get to know artists and galleries very well and we have decided that staying with Manteo based artists or artists who show their work in town will be an easier process to manage upon returning to Bideford and making an arts exchange programme happen in the future.</p>Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661394986766297316.post-65002534053224828072010-10-17T19:47:00.000+01:002010-10-17T20:15:15.205+01:00Arts ExchangeAt the Artrageous Art Extravaganza art auction, Sunday October 3<sup>rd</sup> 2010, Laura Martier, executive director of Dare County Arts Council, gave her public endorsement of our plans to make real arts contacts with our American twin town: <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJaXKrJ-wjfZ70pj4Rz6hIkyo1Rg2plI7nTBUPz-tWVsw7hi5t7YiWmkTC0oEHjV4tXXtHNHzPlf2F53ZovfHHYMA8jr_UiXmHVSDmkW8UCTFz5P0HEjzAgAA0QR4oCHa6lOOpK55-ZibG/s1600/video-click-of-opening-speech-at-Artrageous.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 112px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJaXKrJ-wjfZ70pj4Rz6hIkyo1Rg2plI7nTBUPz-tWVsw7hi5t7YiWmkTC0oEHjV4tXXtHNHzPlf2F53ZovfHHYMA8jr_UiXmHVSDmkW8UCTFz5P0HEjzAgAA0QR4oCHa6lOOpK55-ZibG/s200/video-click-of-opening-speech-at-Artrageous.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529093213372031794" border="0" /></a>“We have some guests from Bideford England, Sadie and Dave Green. They're our guests of honour tonight and what happens with our guests of honour? We will just make them work. They've been working for us all weekend, working for us on First Friday and working with us tonight. And Bideford is our twin town in England so we're working on some cultural arts exchanges with the artists in Bideford and with the artists in Dare County, so hopefully we'll all get a trip to England out of it; so let me know if you want to get involved in that one!” - Laura Martier</p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Dare County Arts Council are very enthusiastic about undertaking some arts activity with artists in Bideford. Dave and I have had 2 very positive and productive meetings now. Laura Martier and Fay Davis Edwards are keen to work with Bideford Bay Creatives on a postcard project as a way of introducing the arts community to each other and also for the local community in both Manteo and Bideford to learn a little about the other town, through the arts. We have had it confirmed now that we are to have an exhibition of artist-made cards from both Manteo and Bideford (these will be made by artists from both towns who will make a duplicate one and send it to the other town) at the Arts Council's gallery at the beginning of June 2011 and the opening of it will coincide with the First Friday event in June, on June 3<sup>rd</sup>. At the same time Bideford Bay Creatives will stage an exhibition of postcards from Manteo and Bideford artists at Appledore Visual Arts Festival in June 2011. Both towns will also be working with an elementary/primary school and so children will also make and exchange postcards and have them exhibited.</p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9SV6i8o2sTUxe5SeAPS603UaV9XQWBLsNDVYX6XJP0eFvxsleVhQIg-5lnh4O0zSEe_In2xI2YlH__SKy5rRffHSxx7XBpxoLgfxJwISYlnrulHzhzmm4ouLFDyTC97xViuYi9CPxJlv/s1600/aSilver+Bonsai+2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9SV6i8o2sTUxe5SeAPS603UaV9XQWBLsNDVYX6XJP0eFvxsleVhQIg-5lnh4O0zSEe_In2xI2YlH__SKy5rRffHSxx7XBpxoLgfxJwISYlnrulHzhzmm4ouLFDyTC97xViuYi9CPxJlv/s400/aSilver+Bonsai+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529095302574064930" border="0" /></a>We made email contact in Bideford with Ben and Kathryn (above) at Silver Bonsai Gallery and we have seen them a few times in Manteo. They are both excited about the possibility of an exchange programme and are really keen to get something going, possibly with using a building they have on site that, although isn't ready right now, could possibly be a studio space for a visiting artist. That sounds great, I need to see the space but could be perfect! Ben and Kat are also the right kind of characters to make things happen and I am sure we will keep in touch.</p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">With both of these ventures I need to put some things in writing and have a plan to work to. Laura at the arts council has suggested we have a 3-year plan with the vision for the bigger picture as well as stages that can be achieved along the way. The postcard project being the first stage. This is something I can work on before we leave.</p>Sadie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537025538974058385noreply@blogger.com0