{"title":"Black Chooks Studio","description":"\u003cp\u003eMy name is Anne Fowler and I have been a Pottery for approx 26 years. My studio is located in Mahogany Creek, WA. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople often ask how I got into pottery. So I thought I would share my little funny story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout 26 years ago I made a mosaic house number, 745 and hung it from out letterbox. But our newspaper delivery man would hurl that paper out of his van with a rugby arm and broke my house number. So again I made another and it also had the same fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo I though to myself, I'll fix you. I went down to Jacksons art supplies. A really lovely lady came to serve me and asked, \" what can I do for you?\". I replied, \" I would like a bag of clay. I have no idea what I am doing, but I would like to make a thick solid number that hangs on my letterbox\". \"No problems\", she said. Just then my husband who works away rang. He said, \"what are you doing?'. He laughed when I told him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter I hung up the phone. This sales assistant says to me, \" Would you like to buy my pottery wheel for $150?\". I though, yeah I could do that. So I rang my husband and told him. While on the phone she says, \"actually you can have my whole pottery studio for and extra $100\". The whole studio. She was a Tafe lecturer who had become ill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe next day we took 2 car trips and a trailer to bring it home. Kiln, wheels, every imaginable glaze colour and everything I would possibly need. It took up our 10metre by 8metre shed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo then the always wise one says, \"Well what are you going to do with all this now\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI thought I had better find somewhere to try and learn. I never really was able to use the wheel good. Could never make 2 coffee cups the same actually.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo my journey at hand building began. I think back to what I used to make to where I am now and all I can say if I saw our newspaper man again, I'd say.......thankyou.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/madeit.com.au\/collections\/black-chooks-studio.oembed","provider":"Madeit Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}