Bright and crisp, the weather is ripe for foraging as Alison West heads towards her local woodlands on the outskirts of Chagford, a pretty market town in Dartmoor National Park in Devon. Into her hessianlined basket goes handfuls of beechnuts, acorns, ferns, dried grasses, seed heads, mushrooms and frilly lichen – even dung from Dartmoor’s wild ponies. All of these treasures are destined for Alison’s kiln, where she intends to wrap them around her pottery so that the shapes and textures
NATURE’S IMPRINT
Dec 08, 2022
3 minutes
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