Fingertip Precision, Working Hands

The potter creates a candle holder.
I'm starting a series "Working Hands", looking at country crafts, to end with an exhibition where there will be portraits of the craft folk involved. Maybe a competition, putting the faces to the hands, who knows?

This was taken at a friends "Lughnasadh Craft Fair", at the weekend, where a number of crafts were on show. Sadly the weather was very poor, rain showers all weekend. Still, those that came enjoyed the space and the host, who'll you see later. He's said that it'll be an annual event.

Lughnasadh is the Celtic festival for the beginning of the harvest.

Eddie (Golly) Daughton is a Master Potter and an Experimental Archaeologist.
In his own words:

"I work in clay, probably the humblest of materials, but yet including all the four usual elements; Earth, Water, Fire and Air:  Earth from the Clay that forms the pots, Water from the water that allows the clay to be soft and pliable, Fire from the firing process that enables the pot to become like stone again (but in a new shape), and Air from the atmosphere that we all breathe that enables us to see and know the pot for what it is.

My work explores a fifth element, no less important, the element of Story/Spirit/Memory the place where it all comes together to make the connections that allow us all to communicate."

Edit: Jan 5th. 2014. Many thanks to Jinn & 1Pen for suggesting & featuring it