Wednesday, October 30, 2013 New Ceramics

Another batch of ceramics is up in my shop - and more to come in the next week or two. The usual I'm afraid: hands, faces, cats.

Thursday, October 17, 2013 Women

A few women from my sketchbook.

Thursday, October 3, 2013 Enid & Seymour

You may recognise these guys from Cat Encounters. They are sibling cats and belong to my friend Frances. Sometimes they do matching poses.

Monday, September 23, 2013 Studio Assistant Needed

----Thanks everyone! The response has been amazing. I've found someone now, all my problems are solved!----

It's time! I've been running this ol' jewellery business for two years or so now, and it's been awesome, but it's also gotten a bit out of hand. I can no longer run it as a one-woman show: I need an assistant, or an intern - basically I need some help help help.

Interested? Or know anybody who might be? Send 'em my way.

I'm looking for somebody either one day a week, or, better yet, two half-days a week. It'd be working on various different things - part of it would be working on fulfilling and packaging orders, collecting items from casters and jewellery suppliers, managing some administrative aspects, and help with making and finishing the jewellery itself.

I think & hope this would be pretty useful experience for anybody interested either in making jewellery, or in running a small craft-based business. It'll be quite hands-on and you'll see and help with every aspect of the business, so I hope it'll be valuable. Last thing I want is someone stuck doing something tedious.

So I need somebody organised and quick to learn - experience making jewellery is a plus but not essential. You probably do need to be fairly crafty and good with your hands, though! And you'd need to be computer and web-savvy, and if you have any other particular skills (photography, writing, etc) I'm sure we can make 'em count. Payment is going to be somewhat dependant on experience, but there'll be none of that unpaid internship nonsense.

And needless to say, you'd need to be based in London. My studio's in Dalston/Hackney Downs.

Shoot me an email if you're interested. Let's make some stuff!

hello@datterindustries.com

Sunday, September 22, 2013 Cat Encounters

Dear friends! I have a new and very serious project to share with you. By new, I mean that I started it in 2010, but it's newly compiled online. So here's the crux of the thing: I photograph every cat that I see. Even if the photos are no good. It's pretty academic.

You can check it out here: catencounters.tumblr.com

Saturday, September 21, 2013 The return of the blue blanket

Tuesday, September 3, 2013 The blue blanket

Sunday, September 1, 2013 Sausage dogs

Sometimes you really just want to make serious, thought-provoking artworks. Here are some of mine. One of them is extra long. You can buy them in my shop.

Abundance

Food and flowers, from the market in Ventimiglia, Italy.

Sunday, August 25, 2013 Grey ladies red babies

Friday, August 23, 2013 Big Sur

We took a road trip from LA up to San Francisco, through Big Sur. It was incredible. Here is proof.

Saturday, August 17, 2013 Ceramics Update

I've made a lot of ceramics these last few months. My house is full of them - I've been very slow at posting them though. Not anymore! A whole new batch is up in the shop. Go get 'em!

Friday, August 16, 2013 Roquebrune Utensils

Yup, I'm still posting drawings of things in France. Everything was just so perfect. These are utensils from the kitchen.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013 Drawing at night

Woof, it's been a long time. I've been travelling, mainly on jewellery business, so a little more has been going on over on the Datter blog. I got home yesterday after 16 hours in transit. Very jetlagged. But today is my dad's birthday, so I drew him this. Simple. Drawing at night, which I guess I'll be doing for a while til I adjust to GMT.