Hotting Up at Tel Hai

As the end of the year approaches,students enter their traditional panic phase,while often producing their best work. Most of them are struggling gratifyingly with their teapots- a shape which,it turns out,may owe some of its origins to Middle Eastern water- and coffee-pots. The last picture is of our largest [trolley-hearth] electric kiln,back in action after nearly three years waiting to be fixed,here with a huge load of earthenware. Back in the studio,I have a bisc to unload,and one more to fill before embarking on my pre-Summer season [please God let us have one] firing binge.