Skylines

The Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie writes in her essay ‘Skylines’, in her book ‘Findings’

“maybe I don’t look upward enough.”

The latest Drey Workshop jar designs are inspired by the numerous statues, globes, cupids and cockerels which populate the city skyline. In particular the wind vanes which she discovers tend to

“belong to buildings which are less high and less grand”

In the bustling distractions of a modern city the celebration of wind direction is perhaps a humbling reminder of the natural world. Our eldest son, Cavan, lives in a flat in Glasgow’s city centre. He looks directly onto a beautiful slightly crumbling Victorian red sandstone building with an ornate wind vane on its roof. The wrought ironwork silhouetted against the Campsie hills, pale in the distance, is a gentle reminder of the wider world beyond. An invitation to travel on the wind North, East, South and West.

Here is one of our North South East West Jars being decorated.