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Jane Porter's avatar

I’m going to be loitering by your wall ready to snatch up the next batch! 😂 looking forward to seeing more future alien treasure hoards…

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Tor Freeman's avatar

Hahaa! You'll be very welcome although I cannot guarantee you won't end up on our street's whatsapp under "suspicious loiterer" ;-) !!

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Jane Porter's avatar

working on my disguise as we speak...

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helen sharp's avatar

I will be right behind you, Jane!

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Jane Porter's avatar

😂😂

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Tania Willis's avatar

I've loved your Substack to bits, i but now ( as if it were possible) I love it even more due to your sketchbook confession- I share your shame.

And like head-to-toe Seasalt, wild swimming and fermenting.... ceramics will come for us all eventually. I too have signed up. Thanks for the warning x

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Tor Freeman's avatar

Thanks Tania! Hahaha that's horribly true, it's really no good trying to dodge these things. For me it's been elasticated trousers, making sighing sounds when I sit down and stand up, beddy boes by 9.30pm and... ceramics!!! Embrace the inevitable!

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Audry Nicklin's avatar

Pottery was the one hobby I found where it seemed it was possibly to irreparably destroy your object at every stage of making it.

I am really loving your art on all those pieces. The historical twist makes it even more awesome!

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Tor Freeman's avatar

This is so true. Someone at the pottery was telling me the other way that she once dropped her entirely finished piece on the way home. Just appalling.

Thank you!

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Courtney's avatar

Absolutely delightful! Now I must go draw silliness in my sketchbook...

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Tor Freeman's avatar

Fill that bad boy up with silliness!!

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Hattie Crisell's avatar

I love ALL OF THIS and fully believe that in millennia to come, historians will be staring at your mermaid candleholders and theorising that in the early 2000s, before the first Apocalypse, mermaids ruled the earth x

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Tor Freeman's avatar

Thanks dude - maybe it'll even happen! Come on mermaids, bring on your benign watery leadership! x

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Soni Speight's avatar

The cherubs look like they're reacting to the missing handle:

"Handle's gone"

"Knew that was going to happen"

"Guess we'll do without"....

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Tor Freeman's avatar

😂 Argh they saw it coming (it was probably inevitable)

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Clementine's avatar

The pots and mermaids are beautiful- just post here when you drop them on your wall-

We’ll come and fight for a Tor pottery. So glorious- the mermaids, the angels, the knights- AMAZING- and the sensual mama ahhhh what a role model, fags furs f*cks, what’s not to like?

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Tor Freeman's avatar

Thanks Clem!! Yes, she really has the trio of things down. I'll let you know when the ceramic street wrestling begins!! xx

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Dunja Popin's avatar

What absolutely magnificent drawings and pottery decorations 😍 !!! If I were an alien, the whole of the Vatican Museums would be yours, one day!

Maybe they will invade us specifically to appropriate these things 🤔! But I would understand them...

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Tor Freeman's avatar

Haha thank you!! Though it would be a shame if an alien invasion/overthrow of the human race was all brought on by ceramic desire. Although, as you say, understandable?!

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Matt Foltz-Gray's avatar

These are just incredibly charming drawings and I am now a fan of you ceramics as well. Thank you for sharing.

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Tor Freeman's avatar

Thanks Matt!

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Ella Beech's avatar

So many amazing drawings!! They seem destined for pots! How could they ever not be?! Xxx

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Tor Freeman's avatar

Thanks Els!!😘xxx

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Kate Read's avatar

These are brilliant!

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Joe Berger's avatar

The knights in pots are AMAZING!!! 🤟🤟🤟

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Tor Freeman's avatar

Thanks Joe! Knights in white ppoo-oots 🎶

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Joe Berger's avatar

‘on’

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Alex Hallatt's avatar

Those are amazing. Pottery is harder than it looks. And it looks bloody difficult.

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Tor Freeman's avatar

Thank you! And totally!!

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Thomas Cleary's avatar

I enjoy your whimsical and humorous drawings. They remind me in some ways of the humor of James Thurber.

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Tor Freeman's avatar

Thanks Thomas, that is a lovely compliment!

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Elona Bennett's avatar

Tor your pots are to die for!!! Wish I lived in your road , I would be out there everyday🤣🤣🤣🤣completely hilarious !!! Venus disappearing in her shell made me laugh out loud 👏👏👏👏👏

Keep on sketching( especially on pots!!!

XxxxxE 👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Tor Freeman's avatar

Hahaha thanks E!!! I would like it if you lived in our road too!! xxxxxx

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Jason Chapman's avatar

Straight in with the pen - Blimey! Sweaty palms at the thought. Lovely stuff, Tor!!

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Tor Freeman's avatar

I know! I'm untethered! Thanks Jason!

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