Is this man so wide awake in the mornings that he powers the station lights from his brain? Or is this man so sleepy in the mornings that he wires his brain to the lights to charge himself up?
Tag: colour
Rosemary Wakelin – Pottery
My brother sent me this photograph of a little hand-painted ceramic dish our mother made maybe 50 years ago. She and our father both made several dishes in pottery and both signed them with their common monogrammed initials RW , so I’m not entirely sure whose this is but my gut reaction is that it was my mother. It is a perfect example of hand-decorated studio pottery from the ’50s.
Here are some more – the yellow bowl is one of my favourites.
Creating Cast Shadows
A simple arrangement of hemispherical castings on a white background produces a rich variety of grey tones.
Later when the sun has moved around the shadows are much softer
Colour – pink
The morning sunlight was particularly vivid today just at the right time to fall through an early work by my mother Rosemary Wakelin casting a pink glow onto the wood floor and throwing a pink sash around the clock-case.
The sculpture in pink and blue Perspex hangs in my hall window and reminds me of the time it hung in my mother’s house filling her kitchen with a warm pink glow.
At night
All evening, in the corner of my eye, I kept seeing these flowers in a black glass vase on a black glass table, lit by a table lamp. I was as intrigued by the reflections in the table and in the vase, trying to get above it to get the best reflection
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Sally Wakelin - Studies in Creativity 
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