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  • I've been interviewed

    I've been rather skillfully interviewed on Poets United site; there are some pics of enamels etc, and my local landscape. Some of the pics might inspire an image or two. It is here: http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2012/02/life-of-poet-harry-nicholson.html
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  • French enamels

    This link goes to a French enamel exhibition: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjkpvp_cap-sur-l-avenir-a-la-maison-de-l-email_tv Well, I hope it does . . .
  • Verses

    Sometimes I write verse instead of standing by the kiln. Verses written for a character in 'Tom Fleck'; here he speaks to his bride at their handfasting: To His Bride ‘You are the first gleam of dawn that swells the green linnet’s breast, and throbs his heart with joy. You are the sun at Noon, that ...
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  • Gallery Page

    http://1513fusion.wordpress.com/enamel-gallery-2/   That is a page of my blog where I keep a changing suite of enamels.   I hope you'll look in when you have a moment.  
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  • Swinging the Lamp

    http://www.swingingthelamp.com/ A new site for artists, poets, writers. It went live today - and features an enamel!  
  • Swinging the Lamp

    http://www.swingingthelamp.com/   That address is a new site for artists and writers. It is going live in June and asking for submissions for display. I hope it flourishes - it will be good to have a meeting place for artists working in various media. I've sent some images of enamels and a few poems...
  • Alchemy

    And Then There is Alchemy     The transmutation of matter.  It’s much like life, really. An errand boy for the Co-op in Hartlepool then, by some happy chance, I was tapping out Morse code in the wireless rooms of cargo ships in tropical storms.  When ITV started, they grabbed anyone with practical...
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  • Phone In

    This is not strictly enamelling, I know - but you can hear me on BBC Radio Tees being interviewed at 8.30 this morning about my novel, 'Tom Fleck'.  It will be on this link for a week:   http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/e pisode/p00f0478/Phil_and_Amy_2 6_02_2011/ It is a three hour prog. My bit is clo...
  • Blizzard at Sunset, notes on its making.

    Blizzard at Sunset (Nov 2000) Intention: The colours and effects which can appear with low temperature firings have impressed me; they cannot be purchased by the ounce. I wished to further explore these effects and become more familiar with wet process enamel. I took a familiar Buddhist symbol, ...
  • Skull of the Giant - notes on its making

    Skull of the Giant (March2001) The Russian born painter Nicholas Roerich 1874-1947 used colour and imagery in a way that I find richly metaphoric. I wished to echo something of his style with enamel. I have taken a detail of his painting “Issa and the Skull of the Giant” (tempera on canvas 1933)...
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