Titian Studio Pottery Blog

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions The Final Cover. I'm feeling relieved that the manuscript of 250 pages including five pages index has been edited, finalised and ticked off. There are five sections to my book covering, History, Product Stories, Galleries, Family/Friends/Staff and Commercial information. My goal has always been to produce a book that delves into Sherwood Pottery and Titian Studio to expose the talent and artistry of Cameron and Dorothy Brown.  Dick Scott's Fire on the Clay As many of you know it's been a long road. Would I do it again? Probably not, but I'm glad I have. It's an important 'fragment' of New Zealand's history which deserved to be fully recorded. Titian Studio and Brown family were originally highlighted in three books. The earliest book was written by Dick Scott. Fire on the Clay - The Pakeha comes to West Auckland. It has background information and some photographs. The other two were by Gail Lambert (nee Henry), New Zealand...

 The Fortune Teller's face was based on a photograph of who?   Sherwood - The Fortune Teller (1953) For the majority of us we have only ever known Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth as our monarch, however for my ninety-one-year-old father, King Charles will be the fourth King he's known (1) . The morning I heard the news of the Queen's death was the anniversary of my mother's passing thirty three years ago. I cried. Mum loved Princess Elizabeth, who later became the Queen of England. She purchased many royalty books over her life time. Her childhood scrap books were filled with magazine and newspaper cuttings of the two princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret growing up, and colourful pictures of flowers, dogs and birds.  (1) George V (died 1936), Edward V111 (abdicated 1936), George V1 (died 1952), Elizabeth (died 2022), King Charles 111.  King George V and Queen Mary with their grand-daughter Princess Elizabeth (The lives of the Kings & Queens of England edite...