Keramix - More videos by Marek Drzazga Donaldson from Mole Cottage

The DVD that accompanies the book “Tips and
Time Travel from a Vernacular Potter”
is wholly designed, compiled and produced
by Mole Cottage Enterprises, and can only
be purchased from this site. Previews in
a lower resolution can be downloaded
below, enjoy them, then get the real thing.

Clay Videos and Books

"Tips and Time Travel froma Vernacular Potter"

The DVD that accompanies the book Keramix - More videos by Marek Drzazga Donaldson from Mole Cottage
is wholly designed, compiled and produced by
Mole Cottage Enterprises, and can only be
purchased from this site. The book can be
found on Amazon.co.uk, and other sites. For
a preview go to the links bar and PDF file.

LINKS

Video Downloads

1 Clay Preparation
2 Making Slabs
3 Coiling Chimney Pots
4 Throwing large Plate
5 Throwing large Bowl
6 Chinese Dragon Pot
7 More Videos

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Marek and Pauline Drzazga-Donaldson
Mole Cottage (Watertown)
Chittlehamholt, North Devon
EX37 9HF England UK
tel: - +44(0)1769 540471
email: - marek@keramix.com

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These pages contain language that may well offend those of a squeamish disposition, and those who dislike coarse language won’t be disappointed, as there is plenty of that too. I call a spade a shovel, it’s what it is, and as I am plain spoken, I certainly do not have any embarrassment in so doing. If you have a problem, then please, for your own peace of mind, do not read these pages, you may however, watch the videos, as these contain no sex, nudity, no pulsating lights etc. Although you may not enjoy me savaging Einstein, tearing his T-Shirts “ E=MC² ” into tatters, watch in amazement as I reveal the “Emperor’s Clothes” for what they are – totally transparent. Does a tree that falls in a deserted forest make a noise? Can you wind up your watch in an anti-clockwise direction? And does anyone really care? This book is a mélange of conjuror’s tricks gleaned throughout my life as a potter and a love affair with a material that to others is just mud.

Marek Drzazga-Donaldson (1950-

Both my parents were Polish (my father has gone to the blue yonder to fly all his WW2 missions with his pals all over again); my mother has just stopped pedalling her bike around Marlow like a lunatic, as she has gone partially blind at 88 years old. For a reason only known to him dad changed the family name by deed poll to a good old Scottish one. I use the double-barrelled version, when my old dear pops her clogs I will revert to my Birth name of Drzazga – or splinter, so our family were woodworkers in the past.

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Much is covered in the DVD, from the height of working surface for clay prep, making slabs, throwing on the potter’s wheel, assembling Dragon Chimney Pots, and plenty of other innovative methods of manufacture. Also on the DVD is the book (in PDF), along with a DVD of work and life around Mole Cottage. But if you do copy the DVD, please do honour the source material, also we would appreciate it if you, or the recipient make a donation to your favourite Children’s Charity or Agency.

Time Travel is not written in a linear format. It is intended that the reader choose to read a chapter, or a section, and dip in and out, as and when. The margins are wider than normal to facilitate note making, as I have started to further elucidate certain sections in the Chapters. Also to further the reader’s interaction, the associated DVD has many hours of video footage to enhance the written word. If a picture is worth a thousand words, what value thirty seconds of video content?

I have used the illustrious pen of Owen, friend and colleague from Art College years, to enhance my scribblings, his succinct style and laconic Sense of Cornish humour brings life to my rantings.

After a less than impressive educational performance in both the state and private system, and an even less impressive showing at the Berkshire College of Art & Design, Owen then enrolled at the Open University of Life - owing to a most tenuous grip on the concept of deadlines he can best be described as 'a work in progress' ODB 2006.