News from Hawker’s Pot

All has been quiet of late here in the halls of Hawker’s Pot as I have been in a small back room busily preparing new postcards to sell from the Hawker’s Pot suitcase.  Here is one of the thirteen new designs:

(Hawkers and Potters of long standing and good memories may remember the joke from some years ago.)

The suitcase will be making its first outing this year on this Saturday, 4^th May, as part of the Site Festival opening night at Stroud Valleys Artspace on John Street.  I will be there between 7 and 9pm.

On the weekends 11-12^th and 18-19^th May, my studio at SVA will be open with a fully stocked suitcase of cards as part of the Site Festival Open Studios weekends.  I will also be showing paintings, drawings and nonsense verse including this sort of thing, a misdirected version of "My mother said I never should":

My mother said I never should

Play with the gypsies in the wood.

My father said I didn’t oughter

Play with the mermaids in the water

And when I asked my Aunty whether

I could play with the fairies in the heather

She said I’d really better not

Play with them,  a desperate lot.

They said they’d rather that I didn’t.

But, then again, I never listened:

I played with the gypsies on the heath,

I played up above and far underneath

And then I kissed them, one two three!

Tell mother I’ll be back for tea

(And the one who comes back will be a lot like me).

In other news:

Hawker’s Pot cards are now also for sale (from a natty little day-case) among the assorted delights in the Made In Stroud shop on Kendrick Street.