This view is from the old tennis court, looking up towards the house surrounded by shrubs and trees. Drawn with fine liners and coloured with Polychromos pencils.
The Garden House is near Yelverton, Devon, and its 10 acres of garden is open to the public.
Some of you may know of my love of ceramics from a ‘previous life’.
I would spend my days elbow-deep in clay – but I had never thrown a piece on the wheel … until a few weeks ago when I spent a day with Alice and Becci at Welcombe Pottery in North Devon. With the imminent return of the Great Pottery Throwdown to UK TV in the new year you may be tempted to have a go, if so a taster day at Welcombe is just what you need!
Written by Kelia-Jane Hannaford*, this is a story of hardship and decisions. It is centred on Devon’s Exmoor near the end of the 18th century.
I was pleased to have been asked to do some of the illustrations for the book, which also contains some of the author’s own photographs:
An aside about Kelia-Jane can be found at: https://scratchypen.wordpress.com/2021/08/20/whatever-happened-to-kelia-jane/
*Kelia-Jane Hannaford is the pen name of Richard J Small, a prolific author with ten other books to his name.
Kim - splash it! 