Jenny Harriman Quirky Clay

Gargoyles

TRAIL Sail

Fish mural

Poppy Heads in the herb border

Leeks

TRAIL chimney pot

Cornish tiles

Japanese Pagoda

Cormorants

Pottery is a great way to relax and be in the moment. It is a medium I love to use for quirky ideas that have enhanced my garden.
My whimsical vegetables and flowers ensure produce and colour in the garden throughout the year. Quirky gargoyles now peep from the planting, mounted on old sleepers. Tiles based on sketches at Porthnanven beach, St Just, show strange rock formations and entrances to disused mines where my mother’s ancestors worked. My life-size owl made of grog stoneware clay attempts to scare away the sparrows that feast on my spinach, beetroot and kale.
Years of involvement with the Teignmouth TRAIL resulted in the amalgamation of several pieces to enhance the front garden with a sail-like sculpture. Sadly it has reached the end of it's life, but I am planning on creating a new piece using sustainable willow lobster pots and metal cormorants.
My long term interest in the strandline continues using found sea-washed glass and pottery deposited at sea, dumped early in the 20th century off the Devon coast. In the 1970’s I spent several years collecting old bottles found in rubbish dumps or estuaries; everything from cods bottles (the lemonade bottles with marbles in the neck) to marmite jars, so it is fascinating today to use fragments for embellishment on mirrors or as part of a collage - snapshots of history.