With my husband, Charlie, we set out for the first time in months from home to visit factories who I have long been planning to work with. It was finally time to deliver very delicate porcelain works and discuss what might be possible. Four days of driving and three nights away was a big adventure!

The highlight of our trip was a visit to Tarbert, a very pretty fishing village on Loch Fynne. Beyond the harbour and houses, are some very small rocky bays filled with scallop shells. They have been broken and dragged up and down the rocks by the sea, gradually compacting and locking together into some beautiful compressions of wobbly lines in creams and pinks.

I loved to see the Tarbert shells and am touched that, knowing my Flows, people wanted me to see them. It was interesting to see the patterns that have come about by waves on rocks and I shall let the experience settle to notice if something of the shells re-emerges in porcelain.

We left the shells on the beach and went to have very fresh scallops in the village café.