Dec 4, 2020
A plant-inspired practice. With Katie
Robbins
A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.
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Garden soundtrack
Seasonal markers, and The Almanac from Lia
Leendertz.
Catching up with Lia Leendertz. What's new in the 2021
edition? 03:44
Reading from The Almanac: A Seasonal
Guide to 2021 10:28
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Read by Milli Proust
The independent plant-inspired businesses bringing cheer and
lightening our darkness.
Interview with Katie Robbins 13:22
14:50 A love of the natural world and of
ceramics
16:02 The formative planty encounter -- sunflowers, a flat
cap and a fag
18:40 Potter... or ceramic artist?
19:52 If not a potter, would Katie have worked with plants
in some other way?
Grace Alexander flowers: https://www.gracealexanderflowers.co.uk/
Milli Proust: https://www.milliproust.com/about
Bex Partridge (Botanical Tales): https://www.botanicaltales.com/
21:50 The power of a good parcel, and delighting your
customer
Beautiful and sustainable packaging
24:49 A journey to the potter's wheel
26:43 The shortest commute -- working from home. Pluses
and minuses of the WfH life
29:12 A tour of the garden studio
34:57 Katie's creative process
40:17 Inspiration from peers
41:48 The inevitabilities of creative
cross-fertilisation
44:23 Working in porcelain
46:49 Clay from the ground
50:00 Inspirations
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Thank you to Katie Robbins
for giving up her time to talk to me about her creative
plant-inspired practice.
You can find Katie on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/ceramicmagpie/
Or on her website: https://www.ktrobbinsceramics.com/
Thanks also to Lia Leendertz for joining me
to talk about The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to
2021
I'm immensely grateful to Milli Proust for
lending us her mellifluous tones for the reading.
And of course, I'm ever appreciative of all my listeners for
your continued support and reviews, I really do appreciate them.
You can support the podcast by buying its producer a virtual cup of
coffee for three quid, at https://ko-fi.com/andrewtimothyOB. Proceeds will
go towards equipment, software and the monthly podcast hosting
fees.
A year of garden coaching
If you'd like to find out more about my my 12 month online
garden coaching programme, please visit the website, where you can
read more details and add your name to the waiting list to be the
first to hear when enrolment opens up again.
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