BRIGHTON Pavilion was the inspiration for a piece of work on the television show The Great Pottery Throw Down, writes Plamena Manolova.
Potters on the BBC Two show were asked to create a two-tier water feature for their garden. And Elaine Wells, from Amersham, created a water fountain based on pavilion.
Elaine said she was hoping that her seven cats and one dog would drink water from the fountain. Elaine’s two-tiered fountain had an ornate minaret top over a stately column.
All contestants’ ceramics go through a 42-hour drying process before they are bisque fired and left to cool down over night. The process of firing often causes cracks or breaks the ceramics. Although the fountain water system worked fine, Elaine had lost a few pieces of her main bowl due to an explosion during the first firing.
Sadly, Elaine was the one to leave the show on the night. Perhaps the Pavilion’s 200-years-old structure is hard to recreate.
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