Mike Dodd- 2024 Exhibition Preview - GOLDMARK - YouTube

The first time I contacted clay was walking across the field when I was probably about 11 and it'd been freshly ploughed and on top of one of the furrows was this yellow colour which and I thought that was odd so I walked over and picked it up. You know you could actually squidge it in your hands and I kept it in my hands for I don't know a couple of hours but obviously the feeling was good. I had to choose to do some artistic endeavour and I chose pottery. Yeah that's what you do it for because you're trying to communicate your love of something that's why you do it. If someone's got the same opening in their soul or whatever you want to they'll see the same you know they'll feel the same. Yeah that's what art is it's a in my opinion it's a it's communicating liveliness, life in some form or another whether it's writing pots, sculpture, music, opera, dance, it can be anything. Rough. They don't cut your fingers they just scratch them. That's okay.