My favourite amongst the ceramics at the show in Farnham was the work of Elaine Bolt, pictured immediately above and below. I am a constant sucker for elegant simplicity, and here it went so well with the weaving hanging beyond. 
I was also attracted to the work of Judy Dibiase (seen at the top of this post) which uses ceramics to convey her ideas about archiving memory. According to the notes beside her work she 'sees memory and trace as being the key to making sense of our own emotional terrain as well as the world we inhabit ... shadows and small objects act and are as used as a metaphor for how we remember'. I am intrigued by how many artists are bound up in memory and archiving these days. I thought that the sheets of ceramic were very like sheets of paper, and liked that - it's a good way of presenting and preserving them, and nowadays so many interesting things can be done with digital transfers onto ceramic. 
The other work which interested me was that done on book arts. I am attracted to the idea of book arts and artists' books, but I must say that lately trying to think about the form is rather like trying to see in a blizzard. There is just so much about! 
Of the book artists the work of Ken Borg appealed to me most. I love the geometric precision of the cuts above, and of the black and white work below. The forms were beautiful, but I did not find enough content for my taste.
Cerian Rousset excited a little interest, as did the coloured textures of Suppamas Youngcharoen, described in my last post, but they did not hold that interest long, I'm afraid. There are fuller photos on this link. Ken Borg had cards for distribution with this website printed - but it seems that they are all at the beginning of things, as one would expect from the newly graduated.
I did come away stimulated, and I must say that I have thrown myself even more obsessively into design work along the lines I had already started.
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