The first was to Ross Mitchell-Anyon's pottery. He was the potter who worked with local people to create the handprints monument/artwork, by the Serjeant Gallery in Whanganui.
Although I'd be concerned, living and working right on the riverbank, apparently the water has only ever been up as far as the windowsills of the workshop, once!
It was good to see yet another different woodfired kiln, getting inspiration for when I have a place to build my own. This one has two fireboxes at one end, followed by two chambers then a chimney with a small firebox at the base for pre-warming to create a through draught.
Beautiful work, and sharing an area in this lovely old building with a restorer of old sewing machines, mainly Singer. He took them in exchange for selling new machines, then got them working again and the collection includes some of the oldest made.
She is one of those working in the old Whanganui Chronicle building.
Two glassworkers work from here (at least) and others are in the mezzanine gallery.
They also run courses-I was very tempted to make my own paperweight-but I'm reducing weight to pack so I couldn't!!
Then we walked back over the city bridge and up Georgetti Road to Bricksticks.
We'd been intrigued by the name since we came here...now we understood!
It is a fantastic space, and for the weekends the kiln spaces were filled with other craftworkers and artists from out of the city.
We checked it out on google earth when we reached home. We knew it was big!! It is just surprising how close to the surrounding houses it is situated.
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