Author Archives: Bridget Macklin

I am an artist working in the field of ceramics creating fragile porcelain pieces which are inspired by the environment or by peoples relationships with the environment and with each other and which often incorporate finds to support their narrative.

It’s been a while but . . . Things are starting to happen

Goodness! I have just realised that I have not written a blog for a very long time. I have been so busy that it has completely slipped my mind. There have been exhibitions to make work for – I am currently exhibiting work at Bovey Tracey with other members of Design Nation Cornwall and Devon.

The exhibition is called Materials Matter. It is on until 13th March so you have not missed it yet and it is well worth a visit.

I am also involved in Make Southwest’s Green Maker Initiative and this has been very exciting. I had a day here recently when I was filmed in the studio and interviewed about how sustainable my practice is. I have to say that I am well aware that it is difficult to be fully sustainable when you work in ceramics, and I am certainly not perfect, but I do what I can and the whole point of the film – which will be launched during the Green Makers Initiative take-over of the Mill at Bovey Tracey – is that it starts a conversation.

Photo credit: Robin Shelton

The big thing, which has taken up most of my time in recent months, is that I have embarked upon a Masters level degree with Falmouth University. It is online and part-time but it seems to fill most of every week! I am loving the rigour and the challenge. This term is all about collaboration and that is proving very exciting. I have built a Creative Team of four, which includes my daughter and two of her friends and we have a very exciting project in the pipeline.

I will try and post here on a regular basis to let people know where to look but for now, just as a taster . . . . Click here.

I Must go Down to the Sea Today

The weather in Cornwall is absolutely beautiful at the moment and I have a yearning to be on a beach.

This is my Cornwall, This is my home.

I also have a wonderful excuse to go to the beach – I am working with a group of makers, all of them living in Devon and Cornwall and part of the regional Cluster of Design Nation on a beach combing adventure with Rue Pigalle. We are each going to be talking about our wonderful part of the World, why it is important and how it influences what we make. I cannot wait!

Across the water lives Lucy Spink

The event starts in Devon with Alison Shelton Brown, moves west to the Roseland Peninsular in Cornwall where we visit my beach and my studio, across the water to Lucy Spink who will be in her beautiful Cornish garden and, finally, up to the north coast of Cornwall to visit Helen Eastham.

If we were doing this in reality it would take several days but, by doing in virtually, people will be able to enjoy the work of four artists all driven by their passion for the wilds of the South-west of this wonderful Island of ours without leaving their armchair. Oh the wonders of technology!