I’m Toby, and I make things from clay.
Hope you like what you see!
Of all the shapes to come from the Potter’s wheel, the generous, wide-bellied, sphere presents not only significant technical challenge, but considerable conceptual interest too…
These boxes are hand carved using the slivers and shards of wood which surround the block after a morning of log splitting. As tools they impart their truth and texture to the clay…
At some deeply distant, almost mythical, moment in the history of our planet scientists tell us that the mineral conditions were ideal for those very earliest of precursors to spawn life…