Titian Studio Pottery Blog

B-103 (Butterfly Vase) L ove is a butterfly which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.  -  Nathaniel Hawthorne . Who can resist a butterfly? There's the distinctive orange and black of the Monarchs floating gracefully on a breeze. The red and gold of our native Red Admiral* and the small blue hued or copper coloured moths drifting across fields of long grass. They remind me of lazy childhood Christmases spent on the Coromandel Peninsula. And school holidays riding on the back of trailers, hauled by noisy tractors at Puhoi. A time of eeling, making hay forts and looking for frogs beside an overgrown fish pond. Mum hated frogs!!  * The New Zealand red admiral (Vanessa gonerilla) is a butterfly endemic to New Zealand. Its Māori name is  kahukura , which means "red cloak". ( wikipedia.org ) B-103 Butterfly Vase Titian Studio designed, and slip cast stand-up butterfly vases and butterfly wall vases. These ...

 Pansy flowers evoke happy childhood memories of my Nana's garden . Looking into this phrase, pansies relate to loving thoughts, remembrance. They are February's birth flower. I have happy memories of my Nana's flower gardens. I remember the velvety petalled pansies with their 'painted' orange, yellow, violet and burgundy faces lined up along the narrow concrete path as I pedalled past on my trike. They appeared to nod with happiness just like my Nana's face when I visited. She loved her flower garden especially the perfumed stock, daphne, sweet peas and old English roses. I almost get a hint of their perfume while I'm writing this post. Whenever I see pansies my thoughts go back to the fun times at Nana's house on Albert Road in Riverhead.   Cameron Brown created many wall vase designs, each one individual in design and colourings. He enjoyed designing the moulds but his passion was the glaze combinations. This is evident with the pansy wall vases. It w...