 Unique Gallery, Sculpture Trail and Café
on the outskirts of Worcester
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 LESLEY ALLEN - DRING
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
BA (Hons) Ceramics and Glass
Sand cast glass is a beautiful means to create a three dimensional picture with texture and light. In some pieces I use wire, metals or minerals to create the picture. In others, I simply polish away the high areas to expose unexpected patterns and textures.
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 2007 Graduate ceramist
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 “My current practices are based on thrown, functional slip wares such as cheese and service platters, bowls, jugs and mugs. I aim to achieve simple, practical, thoughtful pots which are comfortable in handling and tactile in nature to encourage everyday use...
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 Member of Worcestershire Guild of Designer Craftsmen.
Martin is one of Britain’s leading glassmakers. His work is known for its high quality, attention to fine detail, innovative surface treatments and design ideas.
Each piece is designed, handmade and signed by Martin using the finest Crystal glass. As each item is made individually no two items are ever identical...
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 Duncan Ayscough is a Fellow of the CPA, a Professional Member of the Society of Designer Craftsmen and is on the Craft Council’s selected index of makers. He is Senior Lecturer in Ceramics at the University of Wales College, Cardiff.
Duncan Ayscough’s pots appear to embrace both ancient pottery forms and strong contemporary design...
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 Carole Baker ARBSA was born in 1965 in Lichfield, Staffordshire.
Associate Member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Carole regularly exhibits there and in gallery shows and open exhibitions throughout the UK.
In September 2004, she was selected as finalist in the ‘New Artist’ competition and her work showcased at the Autumn Fair at the NEC, Birmingham...
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Ceramics has been a family tradition spanning four generations at least. The earliest records show a pottery at Hoo in Kent in 1834 where even the street was named after my forbears. Each generation has produced their own particular style of work and responded to the changing needs of society...
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 Wall ceramics
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 "I was born in Israel and having completed a BA in History of Art and English Literature at the Hebrew University, came to England to study ceramics. I became deeply interested in functional domestic ware during the HND Ceramic Design course at Harrow College. For many years I have been making tableware for every day use...
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 John M Beusmans set up CARN POTTERY in an Old Cornish Chapel in the early 1970s. He was born in Hampshire and moved to Cornwall with his parents who ran a retail pottery shop. He studied throwing at Redruth Art College.
John's pottery is distinctive. His pieces vary tremendously in shape, size and nature, but are always instantly recognizable...
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 Pascale was born in Tulle (Correze) France and always loved drawing and painting even as a child, on anything and anywhere, paper, stones, walls and doors….
Pascale studied Architecture in Clemont-Ferrand and joined the evening classes at Les Beaux Arts where she used charcoal and sanguines in her drawings...
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 The work of North Wales based ceramicist, David Binns is a singular voice in contemporary ceramics. He is interested in his work generating an emotional response, hoping it conveys a sense of quietness, contemplation and ambiguity, possibly suggestive of ritual or ceremony, yet ultimately leaving open questions of purpose or meaning. He produces both interior and exterior works...
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 In 2001, Bjørg moved to India where she found stones in extraordinary colours, some of them majestic gems. Dedicating herself to designing her own jewellery collections, in October 2004, she presented her first jewellery collection in Scandinavia. All materials are natural, precious and pure. Most of the jewellery is based on the natural shape of the material...
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 Cambridge based potter Matthew Blakely, graduated from Southampton University with a BSc in Psychology in 1984. BY 1993 he had acquired a Diploma in Ceramics (State Medal) Distinction from the National Art School East Sydney TAFE in Sydney, Australia...
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 Working in stoneware both at home locally and here at Bevere, Dave makes a range of wheel thrown pots and individual pieces.
They are reduction fired in a gas kiln. Using both modern and traditional wood ash and “Jun” glazes Dave aims to make traditional pots with a modern feel.
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Paul is a self-taught artist living and working in Pershore, Worcestershire, England. He became a full-time artist in December 2005 and has really been making his mark in the art world.
Born in 1959 in Mickleton, Gloucestershire, Paul’s formative years were spent surrounded by Cotswold countryside, farms and livestock...
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 As a mature student, Joy Bosworth studied Ceramics at Wolverhampton Polytechnic, now the University of Wolverhampton, where she gained First Class Honours in 1987. Since that time, she has worked as a Technician/Demonstrator and then as a Teacher on Foundation Courses at a number of colleges. She was later to become a Part Time Lecturer on BA courses at Birmingham University...
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Clive Bowen was born in Cardiff in 1943. He studied painting and etching at Cardiff Art School before taking up an apprenticeship with Michael Leach at Yelland Pottery in North Devon from 1965 until 1969. He then spent a year as a production thrower at CH Brannam Ltd.
Clive makes a wide range of pots, from simple everyday domestic ware to giant ceremonial platters and lidded jars...
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 The textured slipware is a constantly evolving technique. Strong abstract shapes are limited by deceptively simple surface patterning. Further exploration reveals a web of interlacing lines, creating all-over images of rich complexity. Artists Statement:
My aim is to balance process, material and idea creating individual pieces that together form sculptural groups...
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 Cheltenham-based Michael Brazier, a commercial officer at the Ministry of Defence. Michael’s work in oils typically includes landscapes, urban scenes and figures, and he finds inspiration in Worcestershire, Shropshire, Wales and the Marches as well as in cities, motorways and the sky.
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 Trained in Illustration with a 1st class honours degree, at only 26 Antony has already splashed the creative world with his presence in both fine art and graphics.
He has had 3 solo exhibitions, displayed at Silverstone, Goodwood festival of Speed and featured at the young designers exhibition in London, as well as featuring in the worldwide magazine ‘Airbrush Art and Action’...
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 Well known for her detailed paintings of animals in their natural habitat. Val works from sketches and photos taken in the wild and wildlife reserves .
She has concentrated her natural ability and love of the subject on British Wildlife.
She works from nature when ever possible, spending time to watch and sketch in the wild, and at private breeding and rescue centres...
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Richard paints subjects he enjoys in the medium he chooses. This covers a wide range. Everything from wildlife to still life landscapes to seascapes, portraits and life drawings.
He works from his home studio in Worcestershire.
He has been a full-time professional artist for over thirty years...
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 Vivien has concentrated initially on oils and acrylics, but in 1981 she turned to watercolours, and later studied with Matt Bruce RI. A more mature style emerged, revealing the intensity of vision which is the hallmark of the true artist. Her increasing awareness of the beauty of the English countryside in all its moods became a driving force in her work...
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 Dick Bruna (1927) is one of the few living Dutch artists to have achieved worldwide fame among young and old. He started drawing in 1940 and among the books he illustrated was the series entitled Zwarte Beertjes (Little Black Bears). Bruna has spent his later career developing his skills within the picture book genre, creating characters such as miffy...
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 Liz Bryant creates sculptural figures, usually impressionistic in style. She concentrates mainly on the female form and over time the figures have developed into these current slender, elegant shapes, which she sees as contemplative and introspective.
After an initial biscuit firing the pieces are glazed and fired again in a raku kiln, a process which Liz finds exciting and stimulating. The...
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 Silvija Buss is a ceramicist working in bone china and earthenware. Inspired by the forms of plants and trees, her work expresses the sensual exuberance of organic nature.
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 Lyn Clarke - Textiles Designer.
Lyn was born in England but soon moved to Tanganyika, East Africa.
She spent her formative years there and at the age of 13 years moved to Hong Kong.
Being brought up in Africa and Asia and her extensive travels have greatly influenced her art...
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 Howard Coles is an increasingly acclaimed contemporary artist, producing contemporary landscape paintings and working in the UK. He has exhibited throughout the UK and worldwide, with his work held by national collections in Singapore and Malaysia. He was recently elected to the Royal Cambrian Academy...
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 2007 Graduate in Ceramics
"I am interested in natural forces and the change and decay that they create. My work is spontaneous, so capturing freshness.
I work with thin slabs of porcelain clay mixed with fibre.
I enjoy the ambiguity of large industrial decaying vessels made from delicately thin precious porcelain...
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 Alyson creates sculptural and functional pieces that are a fusion of hand-built and wheel-thrown techniques with a meeting point of texture and contrast that enhance the form and structure.
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 Prue trained as a painter, but preferred the more earth-bound activity of making objects for use. Her work celebrates friendship and the sharing simple pleasures that is implied by large dishes for food.
After art-school she spent twenty years dealing in 18th and 19th century drawings...
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 Emmanuel Cooper makes individual pots, mostly in porcelain, including bowls and jug forms. All fired to 1260 C in an electric kiln. Glazes tend to be bright and rich and include turquoise blues and greens, nickel pinks and blues, uranium yellow. Emmanuel has been making pots since 1965, he is Editor of Ceramic Review and author of many books on ceramics...
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 Jane trained at Camberwell College of Art (1988-1992) and at the Royal College of Art (1992-1994), and has won several awards for her work including the Wedgwood Scholarship for surface design. Her work is collected for the use of rich jewel like glazes and stylish elegant forms. She exhibits widely and is a member of the Craft Potters Association.
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 My inspiration is drawn from the intricate shapes and textures I observe in the environment. I am attracted to patterns that repeat themselves naturally on large and small scales and the configurations within objects that have been transformed by time and place. The past is written into the surface like script...
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 Ian gets inspiration for his atmospheric pictures from the wonderful landscapes and seascapes of the British Isles .
He started painting in watercolour in 1993 after a long career in aviation. Though entirely self-taught, his style has been greatly influenced by the works of Seago, Wesson, Fletcher-Watson and Yardley...
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 I work with a large brick built kiln, constructed by myself over twenty-five years ago. It stands some seven feet tall and six feet wide and is powered by two oil burners, driven by compressed air. Its noisy, intense and very exciting, a force cajoled rather than controlled, and never tamed. The burners roar, the flames leap out of each tiny crack and the heat is searing...
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 Gavin designs and makes unique and functional pieces of furniture using temperate woods.
The freedom hand tools enables him to experiment with interesting lines and shapes.
The techniques of laminating and steam bending are sometimes used to achieve curved forms.
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 "Through my work I want to highlight the preciousness of life and the rituals of food and drink with objects that are both special and tactile. I am attracted to porcelain as a material because of its whiteness and translucency, and because of the fluidity that throwing can give to it...
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 I make porcelain which explores and extends the qualities associated with this beautiful material. I make functional pots which range in scale from fine delicate cups for tea or cider to large unexpectedly rugged slab dishes and plates.
The forms are either thrown or slab-built with surfaces which are pierced, stretched, carved and ribbed...
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 Bridget Drakeford has been designing and making pottery since 1977.
During the early years in Scotland she made domestic stoneware, but now works exclusively in porcelain using both reduction and oxidised firings.
She has been a prizewinner at the Mashiko Ceramics Competition in Japan, and at the World Ceramic Exposition in Korea...
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 Born in 1960
A diverse range of influences have informed the work of Françoise Dufayard. During the late 1970s Françoise studied ceramics at the Ateliers de Fontblanche in Vitrolles, then she travelled in Asia (1981-1982).
From 1983-1987 she worked for Gustave TIFFOCHE and Suzy ATKINS...
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 "I have been influenced by Ikebana, the Arts of Japanese Flower Arranging, which I have studied for several years. Together with this and the influence of other Japanese Art, I have explored the use of asymmetrical forms using the natural colour of stoneware and porcelain clay, enhanced by stained inlay decoration...
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 Slip decorated earthenware - both electric and wood fired. The decoration is innovative but not overstated and some of the forms are quite original. Their domestic ranges are usually electric fired and the larger one-off pieces are fired in the single-chamber down-draft wood kiln that Michael built.
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 Libby's Paintings
"I do not have any deep or intense philosophy about my work but I love the act of painting - of picking up paint and putting it onto a canvas - it’s a one-off mark every time - and therefore exciting and without guarantee!
I live in a wonderful environment - a both geographically and spiritually rich place...
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Brian was born in London and he worked in the precious metal industry for 40. years, marketing industrial precious metals for major European refiners and bullion dealers.
On retirement, he has used his extensive technical knowledge to design and handcraft a range of jewellery that best reflects the metals unique characteristics and lustre
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Fascinated by maps, Annabel prints these and other images onto raw clay, creating illustrated ceramics that explore a sense of place. She has developed her own printing method over several years, printing before she constructs the vessel rather than on the finished pots...
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2007 Graduate in Ceramics
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 Beth says "I gained a 1st class BA Fine Art and Art History in 2002 and an MA Fine Art distinction in 2004, and since 2001 have been exhibiting in group and solo shows mostly in Cardiff, Shrewsbury, Aberystwyth and Birmingham and also in London, Cheltenham and Bath...
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 Kim is a designer maker based in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. Working mainly with Raku and smoke firing processes, he aims to produce pieces that are contemporary in design but which retain the integrity of a longstanding practice. Kim utilises many traditional methods, but does not ignore developments and improvements that can result from inspired experimentation.
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 Penny uses porcelain and bone china clays. She makes moulds in which she casts her forms which enables her to make very thin fine forms, often using layers or inlays of different coloured slips. The forms are then hand carved and then finely sanded to achieve a natural smooth "pebble" like quality. She often make forms that link together as pairs...
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 Ninna says of her work, “I like my pots to be harmonious and simplistic - because I then have the freedom to play with them. Make one lean one way, have an unusual detail one another. I try to work with simplicity in order to give those details more room. My work is white porcelain with inlaid lines of colored clay. The lines play with the simple, yet often surprising forms.”
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Jonathan Garratt concentrates on wood firing a locally dug clay (terracotta) for work ranging from unusual garden planters to slipware, decorative pots and garden art installations. Many of the influences derive from prehistoric pottery and other artefacts and from tribal arts. Grounding in thrown garden terracotta pots made in quantity...
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 Magdalena Gazur, 27, lives in Poland. She first studied ceramics at the Wroclaw Academy of Fine Art in Poland before coming to the University of Wolverhampton to extend her studies. She is proficient in throwing, handbuilding, glaze technology, painting and drawing...
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 After 20 happy years as a Chef Tim was forced through ill health to change careers. Art College seemed like a good idea and whilst there he touched clay for the first time, the date was November 22nd 1996, He immediately and rapturously fell head over heals in love...
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 "Nature continues to be the over-riding inspiration for my work: pebbles, rock strata, space and distance and land all excite me, generating ideas. Sketchbook drawings and notes record my personal vision and direct response to the rhythm and movement, surface and pattern of landscape and natural forms.
I create pieces that are an integration of form and surface...
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Thomas Genders
South Birmingham based Artist
Ba Hons Illustration
I draw inspiration from the landscape of England in particular Worcestershire, Shropshire, Wales and Devon.
My love for painting is fuelled by an interest in the representation of a subject along with something of myself. I often sketch and photograph before committing work to canvas...
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 Tanya spent five years working on private yachts travelling the globe absorbing colour, shape and diverse cultures. She had a desire to express her inspiration through clay. After graduating from Brighton University with a BA Honours in 3D crafts her passion now lies in ceramics. Having always lived on or by the sea, it soon seeped into her work and is her main inspiration.
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 STEPHEN GRAHAM
Royal College of Art, London. - Masters Degree in Ceramics and Glass
Table, Conversation, Interaction. I see the table as a focal point of the home, a centre of personal rituals.
This body of work explores the relationship between the objects and the user by evoking feelings of intimacy, dependency, conversation and interaction...
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 Wolverhampton graduate BA ceramics
Charlotte says
"My work evolves from the making process and my expressionist attitude to material, which enables me to build up lush layers of ceramic surface and rich unpredictable decoration applied lavishly at various stages of making and firing...
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Katie Green BA Hons
Katie qualified from Gloucestershire University in 1979. Since then she has become fascinated in Mosaics and in particular the possibilities of adding new perspectives to this ancient art.
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"Born in Worcestershire, employed in the print trade, I have worked closely with photographers and artists to publish post cards, greetings cards, fine art prints and calendars.
I work predominantly in gouache which as a medium allows me to express myself with true depth and colour but still retain the subtlety of watercolour...
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 JENNIFER HAL
Jennifer graduated from Cardiff in 1994 and set up her first pottery studio in in 1997. In 2002 she moved to Llanwrthwl in Powys. The forms of her pots are determined by their function. The materials and the processes themselves then combine to influence the piece. Jennifer has adopted decorative slipware techniques used by potters down the ages...
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 Morgen graduated from the Grays School of Art Aberdeen in 1983 and The Cardiff Institute of Higher Education in 1984 with an MA in Ceramics. She lives and works in South Wales. She is a Fellow of The Craft Potters Association. Morgen makes a wide range of domestic tableware which is inspired by the food it is intended for, from tea cabaret sets to spaghetti jars.
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 Current Work
Raw-fired saltglazed stoneware pots, thrown and hand-built, for everyday use and for ornament.
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The turning point in my life (sorry no pun intended) came in 1989;
It's just a tree - I began by specialising in high quality turned decorative and functional bowls and individual vessels using simple designs to bring out the natural beauty and variations in colour, texture and figuring of local timbers...
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 Helen was born in Birmingham and now lives and works in a village on the outskirts of Worcestershire.
In 1991 Helen took voluntary redundancy from a job as a buyer of Rover cars and then spent a year studying art at Worcester College of technology for a Diploma in fine Art before embarking on a career as an animal artist...
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 Bronze Running Ducks
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 Claire studied fine art and drawing between 1985 and 1992 in Taunton, Oxford, London and Prague.
Since then she has had many solo exhibitions and been part of larger group events...
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Jeanne has lived in Worcester all her life and is mainly known for her imaginative approach to lansdscape painting. She paints mainly in oils on canvas and more recently on paper. Mainly landscape but with an inpirational touch, ethereal and mystic...
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 Painter and Mixed Media Artist.
"For many years I painted landscapes in the traditional manner, mainly using oils.
Since I retired from my work as a Social Worker I have enjoyed more time to explore other forms of expression...
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Hand built sculptural ceramic, using soft slab construction, encompassing freestanding upright pieces, pillow forms and wall mounted panels.
Inspired by landscapes and geometrical patterns, the pieces are pictorial but abstracted and evocative, the motifs reduced and distilled beyond literal representation. The forms communicate volume and inner space and display an organic and sensual quality....
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Karin Hessenberg (1944-) was born in Berkhamstead and is now best known for her thrown and handbuilt vessels and stools for gardens.
Her first studio was within the Barbican Arts Group in London. The turning point was initially an experimental response for a Barbican Arts Group exhibition when she burnished some of her thrown pots and sawdust fired them...
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 Heyning W/D -
stands for the combined work of Wied and Diederik Heyning. Diederik preoccupied with clay, shapes and glazes, Wied with pattern, rhythm and color. In the end one product emerges from the kiln. They essentially produce functional porcelain...
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 The ceramic vessels that John Higgins makes refer most often to architecture, archaeology and everyday objects. A format is decided, but room is always allowed for spontaneous and expressive handling of the medium...
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 Dean obtained a B.A.(hons) 3D Glass Design at Stourbridge College of Art and Design where he trained for three years.
and then The International Glass Centre, Dudley College
where he studied Techniques of hand making & decorating glassunder master glassmaker Malcolm Andrews -
"I work with a magical material called glass...
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Jane's love of flowers and th countryside reflect in her paintings
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 Chris was born in Worcestershire and from an early age he was aware that painting would play a big part in his life. After graduating from art school and a career in firstly the exhibition trade and then the glass industry, where his designs are still featured on windows and mirrors in banks and public buildings, he decided to take up painting professionally...
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 has been active in the market place for six years, and now has a reputation as one of the top selling artists in the UK, providing work for Harrods and John Lewis, as well as for galleries abroad - from the USA to New Zealand. She also provides paintings for TV programs and advertisements.
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 Graham currently makes small batch production and individual functional tableware pieces informed by a strong interest in both ancient and contemporary ceramics, patterns, textures and colours in landscapes. He has a strong interest in materials and process, and continually trials new ideas, keeping his work moving and developing...
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 Christopher Hughes left the famous Royal Worcester Porcelain Company in 1980 to become a freelance artist...
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After studying for an MA at Cardiff, Simon set up his first workshop at Tredegar House, Newport in South Wales where he spent his first six years as a working potter. After taking time out travelling in the South Pacific, which included seven months working with traditional potters in Fiji he settled in Hay-on-Wye where he shares his studio and working practise with Bill Parkes...
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Maggie was born in 1943 and her training started at St. Albans School of Art and continued at Swansea School of Art & University, leading her into art teaching. Whilst she was a Fellow at Digswell Arts Trust, she took the leap into independence as an artist.
For many years she lived in North Wales, becoming very well known as a ceramicist...
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 The unique character of Paul Jackson's work derives from two interrelated processes. Each piece is first thrown on the wheel, then subtly altered in form - giving the pot an individual character and strength defined by a journey of discovery...
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 "The sculpture I produce ranges from animals such as hares, cockerels, otters and meerkats to human figures.
My work is made in a range of clays such as stoneware, porcelain and earthenware. I have been designing and making ceramics since 1987.
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 John was born in 1946 and studied ceramics at Cheltenham College of Art.
His pots are all hand-thrown, and the focus has always been on pure form. John uses celadon, ochre and shino glazes, made from wood ash and clay, ingredients local to the studio. Decoration is kept to a minimum.
"I am excited most by the work of Bernard Leach, Hamada Shoji and the Eastern School of pottery. The...
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 After a successful career as an occupational therapist, Jean gained a first-class degree in ceramics from Wolverhampton University. Using impressive technical ability, she makes large stoneware hand-built vessels of a sculptural nature, creating great visual impact. Her work received immediate recognition: ‘The Potclays Award for Outstanding Work in Clay’.
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 Hand sculptured wooden toys for children crafted out of English hardwoods. A member of the British Toymakers Guild and were accredited Toy Maker of the Year in 1998.
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 Emma Johnstone is a London-based contemporary ceramicist who creates work using the dramatic firing process of Raku.
Each piece is a unique hollow-thrown vessel, which is Raku fired and gilded with three types of gold and copper leaf.
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 David is a recently retired teacher and lecturer, although he still takes one to one woodturning classes for beginners and the more experienced enthusiast.
He designs and makes mainly in wood, his work ranging from wood turning and small pieces to funiture...
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 David Jones was born in 1953. He graduated in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Warwick in 1974. He has been a Senior Lecturer (0.5) in the Ceramics Department at the University of Wolverhampton, for the past fifteen years. He is a Fellow of the Crafts Potter Association of England...
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 Wood Turner
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 Linda enjoys working in an experimental way, allowing herself the flexibility to adapt her style to suit each subject, whether it is a study of a delicate flower or a robust landscape. Linda works in watercolour, charcoal and oils.
In her paintings she aims to reflect the visual impact that a scene can have on ones senses and consequently the emotions...
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 "My pieces are slip-cast or press moulded white earthenware with hand painted 'tin-glaze' decoration. In this technique you paint on top of the glaze prior to firing.
Where my work differs from traditional Majolica is in the way I use it as a medium for painting in its own right...
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 Jenny Keal draws her main inspiration from the rich history of the landscape. Her special interest is in vernacular architecture and local culture, and she will explore the most remote places to locate an old farm or cottage set in wild scenery. Her inspiration is also drawn from the atmospheric effects of the weather on the landscape, and the geology of mountains, valleys and coast...
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 Walter Keeler's pottery is mainly domestic and functional in salt glazed stoneware or, more rarely, earthenware. He trained at the Harrow School of Art, studying under Victor Margrie and Michael Casson, and later returned there to teach...
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I make pots that I hope can lead multifarious lives in domestic environments. Of the forms present in the work there are some I frequently re-visit and re-work - the beaker, the bowl, the bottle and the lidded jar...
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 Christy Keeney started his career at art school in Donegal.
Although drawn more towards fine art, he was encouraged to continue working in clay. Whilst developing his throwing skills he became more interested in sculpture.
Christy graduated from The Royal College of Art in 1988 and started working from studios in London...
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 Sun Kim is Korean. She is focused on functional wares; the throwing wheel is the major tool she uses to produce them. She is intrigued by the quality of porcelain, which is soft, warm, responsive to her touch and ‘playful to her imagination’ The engineering process of making pots is one of the aspects that excites, challenges and arouses her curiosity...
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2007 Graduate Ceramist
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 John Knapp-Fisher was born in 1931. Following studies in Graphic Design at Maidstone College of Art from 1949, John worked in exhibition design and later for the theatre as a designer and scenic artist. In 1958, while based in London, he began to concentrate on painting and exhibiting...
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 Malcolm is a Photographic Artist - Original Images and very limited (3-10) editions on canvas and paper.
Working with medium format film and high resolution scanning equipment he produces stunning images up to 1.5m wide.
Subjects encompass aspects of the man-made and natural worlds from extreme close-ups to panoramic landscapes.
Malcolm's stylistic output ranges from naturalistic to modern.
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 Giles was born in Quimper, France. He trained at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and in 1979 graduated with B.A Hons.
He has exhibited widely in the UK and his work is to be found in Stoke on Trent City Museum and Art Gallery, The W.A. Ismay Collection Yorkhire Museum York and Rufford Ceramics Centre Nottinghamshire.
He is a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association
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 Born in St Ives Cornwall John Leach was apprenticed to grandfather Bernard and father David Leach between 1957 and 1963. In 1964/5 the pottery at Muchelney in Somerset was established making oil-fired functional ware.
John has established an international reputation for his hand-thrown, wood-fired oven-to-table stoneware...
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 Hand built forms bowls, dishes, vases, jugs, small planters, and containers constructed from sheets of stoneware clay or porcelain fired to cone 8 in an electric kiln using sprayed glazes. They can fulfil a utilitarian function but are more often used as a focal point in an interior.
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 Claudia Lis works out of her workshop in the historic market town of Montgomery, Powys. Her carefully thrown functional ceramics reflect her attention to detail and the importance that she attaches to form and clarity of shape. The subtle shades of her celadon glazes emphasize the tranquil nature of her work...
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 "My work explores the relationship between geometry and nature. The composite pieces I make are hand built in a white stoneware clay using a combination of pinching, press moulding and slab building processes. The work is fired inside saggars filled with sawdust and fired to stoneware temperature. This gives distinctive markings and a dense surface quality".
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 Neil says-
"As a blacksmith I graduated from the world-renowned School of Blacksmithing in Hereford, where I later taught. Based in Herefordshire, I am inspired by organic forms - such as ferns and alium, - and also by the mythical - life-sized dragons being a speciality. In addition to working in metal I now also work with wood."
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 In the 1980s Martin studied on the highly regarded Design/Ceramics course at Kent Institute of Art and Design, Rochester. In the mid 1990s he entered the BA ceramics course at the University of Wales, Cardiff.He found the variety of the course inspirational and then applied for, and was accepted, to study for an MA at the Royal College of Art...
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 Born in 1961, Duncan grew up in the Midlands where he still spends a substantial part of the year. Despite living so far inland, he managed to develop a passion for the sea, and spent a highly significant eighteen months sailing across the Atlantic and then around the coast of Britain. He now spends part of the year back home in the Midlands, and the rest of the time in Scotland...
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I work within the classic tradition of wheel-thrown ceramics. My medium is porcelain and I use a blend of Limoges, mixed with other porcelain bodies to achieve a high level of translucency. I seek painterly effects in my glazes and prefer the natural characteristics of reduction firing to augment the decorative process...
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 "Although not a minimalist, I spend a lot of time cutting out unnecessary detail, going for simplicity in design and strength of construction, and the best quality of finish compatible with the materials being used.
My main influences tend to be contemporary designers and architects, although I have great respect and admiration for the work of designer/ craftsman from around the world.
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 Will Levi Marshall was born 27 March 1969, is married and has two daughters.
I trained in ceramics/design (Ba. Hons. 3D design Man Met UK, MFA Fine Art (ceramics) Alfred NY USA.) and have established an international exhibition record in that field, with my work in many significant public and private collections...
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 James was born in Lossiemouth, Scotland. A natural and compulsive artist, he drew and painted from his earliest years, which marked the beginning of a life-long passion for art.
After qualifying and practising as a doctor for seven years the desire to make art would not go away and in 1993 he made a complete career change turning full time to painting...
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Henri-Emile-Benoît Matisse was born on December 31, 1869, in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France. He grew up at Bohain-en-Vermandois and studied law in Paris from 1887 to 1888. By 1891, he had abandoned law and started to paint. In Paris, Matisse studied art briefly at the Académie Julian and then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with Gustave Moreau...
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 Hand built vessel oriented stoneware and paperclay pieces, reduction fired.
Being a musician as well as a potter, I bring into my ceramic work the same creative process which lies behind improvisation in music: the spontaneity and intuitive "free-ness" of the moment of creation.
I like to leave impressed in clay the immediacy of this process, both in texture and in form. The...
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 Kay McDonagh is married with two children and lives in Worcester. She has always painted and when her first child went to school in 1986 she decided to turn her hobby into a profession. She loves cats and many of her paintings are of her own dog Ozzy.
Her other work includes both animal and flower studies...
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 Stone Sculptor
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: Edinburgh based artist Niall McWilliam paints contemporary themes which enable the spectator to draw upon a veriety of experiences. He aims to conjour moods which his audience can share and enjoy. Niall has developed his paintng techniques allowing a layering of materials which are built up creating a visual depth to his work...
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 Mark trained at Muchelney before spending four years in West Africa as a VSO volunteer, kiln building,training and making pots.
In 2002 Mark rejoined the Mulelney Pottery full time.
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 Eric James Mellon is a potter dedicated to the ceramic process who is also skilled as a graphic artist...
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 Ewen Merry has been taking photography seriously since 2002.
His first successful solo exhibition of monochrome images was held at Bevere in 2002/03.
In 2004 he was awarded a licentiateship of the Royal Photographic Society for his panel of monochrome landscape images.
More recently he has worked in colour as well as black & white...
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 John Lowrie Morrison was born in Glasgow in 1948, and from an early age he showed a talent for art. After completing a degree in Drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art he set out to pursue a career in art and design; he funded his painting by teaching, firstly as Head of Art and Design at Lochgilphead High School and then as Art Adviser for the Strathclyde Region...
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 Katrin moved from managing a contemporary art gallery in central Nottingham to setting up my business in October 2004. She is mostly self-taught, having learned the basic technical skills during six months of a BTEC in ceramics in Hornsea, London...
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 Whether you are looking for a bread crock, a chicken brick, a salt pig, a goblet or more everyday kitchen and tableware crockery - from jugs, mugs, dishes and storage jars to bowls, plates, hotpots, casseroles and tea or coffee pots - you’ll find them in our kitchenware range...
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 Jan is Norwegian and is currently based in London. His work is about function and contrast Rims are cut and thrown out of shape, but without stopping his pots from being functional. He tries to create a balance between a structured body and an organic rim. Most of his pots are heavily thrown porcelain, making positive features of thickness and weight.
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