Artists – The Gallery at Bevere, Worcester

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– The Gallery At Bevere –
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View 'Sketching Wild Birds By Trevor Smith'

Unique Gallery, Sculpture Trail and Café
on the outskirts of Worcester

Aaronson, Adam
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View 'Aa4 Small Lilac/purple & Blue Coil Pot'

Adam specialises in free blown glass, and his work experiments with the hugely varied possibilities of the medium. His vessels and sculptures are at once a celebration of the simplicity of pure form, and also an investigation into the possibilities of layering…

Adams, Billy
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View 'Ba6 Rock - A - Billy Jug'

Billy Adams is a potter whose work deals with exploring ad experimenting with aspects of landscape. He works within the vessel format, combining textures and colours to give the viewer an intimate insight into his private view of ceramics…

Ahrenkiel, Dorte
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View 'Da2 Small Beaker'

All my pots are thrown on a potter’s wheel in the first place. Some of these pots I cut and alter to put them together in different shapes. Using this old technique I create square, rectangular or triangular forms. I work with clays from Germany and French Grès. I often mix these clays adding porcelain grog. Apart from stoneware I also work with porcelain…

Akroyd , Stuart
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View 'Sa22 Saturn Vase'

“Since the first moment I worked with hot glass I knew I had found the medium I would use for the rest of my career. I love using glass, where the finished piece is a solid form but creates the sensation of movement and grace.”

Stuart specialises in hot studio glass…

Allen – Dring, Lesley
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View 'Lad3 Can You See Me Now'

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.

Allnatt, David
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View 'Al6 Medium Double Walled Bowl'

David was born in London. He trained at Sutton School of Art, Surrey. where he took a Foundation Studies, Dip.A.D. Graphics and 3D Design. He has undertaken an Advanced Mouldmaking course at North Staffordshire Poly in 1985 and attended the Glass Summer School, at the University of Wolverhampton, in 1995…

Amirak, Gunizi
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View 'Ga29 Nibble Bowl - Blue'

“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…

Andrews, Martin
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View 'Ma15 Cobalt Footed Plate'

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…

Andrews, Tim
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View '55 Ta10 Deep Black/white Striped Form'

Tim Andrews has gained an International reputation for his distinctive smoke-fired and raku ceramics. He makes individual Raku work. Black and White with linear decoration or burnished muted coloured slips. His pieces have been acquired for both public and private collections and are exhibited widely across the UK and abroad. He is a Fellow of the C.P…

Archer, Peter
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View 'Pa3 Black & Blue Carved Hollow Form'

Peter Archer – Woodturner
The surface of Peters bowls are adjusted either to emphasise the particular qualities of a piece of wood or to deliberately react against those qualities. The shape and grain of the bowl influences the way any modifications are made to it.
Peter tends to use temperate hardwoods, mainly ash and sycamore…

Ayre, Thelma
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View 'White Water'

Thelma studied illustration for three years at the Laird School of Art, Birkenhead.
She worked in advertising both at Liverpool and Manchester, before going freelance, illustrating children’s books and magazines.
She studied Drawing and Painting for four years at Glasgow School of Art and then undertook Post graduate Teacher Training, followed by four more years teaching Art in Scotland….

Ayscough, Duncan
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View 'Da7 Droplet Pot'

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…

Baker, Carole
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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…

Banbury, Clinton
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View 'Cp55 Island Life'

Clint cannot remember a time when he was not drawing. His first pictures were of crocodiles with toothy grins so it could be seen from an early age where an artistic career would take him.
Where’s he from?
When he was at school in Billericay he was interested in natural history, fishing, pottery, acting and – to his horror now – collecting birds eggs and butterflies…

Barningham, Heather
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Heather established her studio in the early eighties where whe worked designing and developing her range of ceramics.
She is a member of the Worcestershire Guild of Designer Craftsmen.
“I like exploring the versatility of clay, the different textures and forms that can be created by hand building and by throwing. I use stoneware clay firing my work under reduction in a gas kiln”.

Barrett- Danes, Jonathan
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View 'Jbd24 Lamb'

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…

Bayless, Hayne
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View '19 Hb4 Salad Plate'

Hayne says “
“The unintended result, often misread as a mistake and so dismissed, is one of the most fertile sources of new ideas. The trick is not to fool with clay’s inherent desire to be expressive.
Pay attention to the clay, not only for the sake of each piece, but because the clay will offer – or impose – its own suggestions of new forms and ways to work…

Bayley, Nicola
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View 'Nb98 White Column'

I produce sculptural forms comprising of multiple elements that address the relationship between the formal qualities of line, scale, shape, material, colour and texture. This body of work is influenced by architecture and the minimalist approach to form. I am particularly inspired by Modernist structures, with their clean sharp lines, simplicity of form and innovative use of materials…

Beard, Peter
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View 'Pb1 Shell'

Peter communicates his creative thoughts through a variety of mediums including Ceramics, Stone, Bronze, Iron and Glass. Working in different mediums Peter has combined process, materials and concept, through ceramics Peter has done this with his ceramics for many years which is reflected by his international success…

Beavan, Jenny
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View '20 Jbev 20 Oscillation'

Wall ceramics

Bendavid, Kochevet
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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…

Bevan , Jane
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View '52jb  Large  Unframed Panel'

Jane has painted since she was a child but returned to college in 2003 to learn something new and fell in love with glass from the start. She worked with glass to create a different kind of painting by fusing hand-blown glass to make rich, glossy, tactile images, which can then be framed, or smaller pieces, worn as jewellery…

Bigot, Pascale
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View 'Soir En Provence'

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…

Bittl, Petra
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View '91 Pb14 Pillow Box'

PETRA BITTL – Germany
Petra is one of Germany’s leading ceramicists. Her work demonstrates her fine art origins – she treats her work very much as painting and drawing but using clay as her medium….her canvas, her paper and the sculptural ceramic works that she produces are quite unique.
She undertook her initial training in ceramics at the vocational school in Landshut, Germany…

Blakely, Matthew
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View 'Mb11 Medium Impressed Dish 0n Feet'

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…

Boddy, Dave
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View 'Db3 Flask'

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.

Bosworth, Joy
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View 'Jb6 Large Cream Boat Form'

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…

Bowe, Liz
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View 'Lb6 Bowl'

liz says
“The work I produce is hand made stoneware tableware intended for everyday use.
The main focus of my work is placed on function, form and surface; I am still exploring the perfect balance of function and form, possibly the reason for my passion for teapots.
The surfaces of my pots have developed over a long period of time…

Bowen, Lara
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Since graduating she has worked as writer, designer, illustrator and art teacher. Lara now concentrates on her artistic practice, documenting the plants, flowers and fruit that she has both established and inherited in her garden. Recently she has also turned her attention to formal gardens and allotments, and landscapes passed through on road trips…

Brazier, Michael
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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.

Bremner, Simone
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View 'Sb49 Glass Bobble & Silver Earrings'

She gained a place on a foundation degree to study applied arts at Plymouth College of Art and Design. Through her studies she encountered glass and her artistic practice moved away from ceramics.
During the first year she gained a place on a Master class at Northlands and felt that this was the turning point that enabled her to create glass past the blown form…

Bridge, Antony
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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’…

Brierley, Ben
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View '48bb  Larger Side Handled Vessel'

Ben says –
“My ceramic work is wheel thrown and altered using stoneware and porcelain clays. Forms seek to utilise and respond to the malleability of the material and work is altered and assembled while still wet. Current work includes bottles, jugs, vases, platters and bowls.
The work is wood fired to 1400 degrees centigrade in an anagama kiln, for three to five days…

Briggs, Valerie
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View 'Fuchsia Cat'

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 flora and fauna.
She works from nature when ever possible, spending time to watch and sketch in the wild, and at private breeding and rescue centres…

Bruna , Dick
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View 'Cp14 Miffy On A Cloud 201/495'

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…

Bryant, Liz
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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…

Bufton, Anita
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View 'A28 Pink Daisy'

Anita says”
I have been involved with many forms of creativity all my working life. Window dressing, exhibition display, internal design, calligraphy and quilling are just some of the things I enjoy.

Currently, I am delighted to say that I’m exhibiting some of my individually designed arrangements at The Gallery at Bevere in the Stable Gallery.

Bull, John
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View 'Jb5 Large Pewter Bowl'

“All my work is individually hand crafted, thrown on a wheel and each piece totally unique.
I draw upon ideas and sources from ancient world history to create works with a sense of preciousness, grandeur and flamboyance.”

Carn Pottery, John Beusmans
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View '8 Carn  N38  - Large Multifaceted Vase'

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…

Carter, Chris
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View 'Cc60 Chawan'

Chris’s personal involvement with farming and the landscape give him a special empathy with his native Britain…

Casson, Sheila
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View 'Sc5 Bowl With Pale Outside Glaze &  Green Interior'

Sheila studied pottery and lithography at Hornsey School of Art. In 1955 she married fellow potter Michael Casson. Intially they worked in central London and then moved to Prestwood, where the majority of the work was undecorated domestic ware.
In 1977 they moved to Wobage Farm in Herefordshire, creating studios and workshops…

Chambers, Matthew
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Matthew Chambers’ initial ceramic training was acquired with Philip Wood in Frome, Somerset in the six years up to1999. He then went on to Bath Spa University where he obtained a First Class Honours Degree in 2002 and an MA from the RCA in London in 2004…

Clark, Wayne
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View 'Wc2 Tea Bowl'

I graduated from Harrow in 1995 with a degree in Workshop Ceramics. In 2000 I gained an MA in Applied Arts from the North Wales School of Art and Design in Wrexham (now Glyndwr University) where I currently work as a Demonstrator in Appled Arts. I am based in Prestatyn, North Wales, where I have a small workshop and wood-kiln…

Clarke, Lyn
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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…

Cochrane, Rosemary
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View 'Rc12/2,6 & 5  Mugs'

Salt glaze firings continue to fascinate me, with the search to find a balance between the predictable and the unexpected. The effects of a rich orange peel surface swept aside by a soft satin sheen are the gifts of the kiln. Using a variety of techniques the application of both colour and texture are inspired by the natural world; the seasons, landscapes and sea shores…

Coleridge, Harriet
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View 'Hc12 Small Jug With Spout'

Harriet graduated from Bristol University with a degree in Theology in 1981 and then had the good fortune to become an apprentice to Alan Caiger Smith at Aldermaston Pottery. Here she learnt to throw, to glaze and to decorate pots in the tin-glazed earthenware tradition…

Coles, Howard
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View 'Dawn Hc566'

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…

Collins, Megan
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View 'Mc1 Large Vase'

Megan explores the interaction between thrown and hand built constructions and the process of reduction firing. She is fascinated by the ever-changing landscape sculpted by the elements, particularly beside the sea. She captures some of this beauty through surface texture and glazes…

Collins, Nic
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View '54 Nc6 Small Devon Jug'

Nic has now been using clay for almost 30 years. His first encounters with woodfiring began because he had no other way to fire his work. In his late teens and early twenties he began building kilns and wheels and sourcing his own clay from the local river banks. He experimented with raku, sawdust firings and saltglazing…

Collinson, Liz
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View 'Lc43 Pair Of Drinking Vessels'

The coast line, to the North of Lancaster is very special with gorgeous colourful beaches, and wonderful sunsets. This together with the slate found in the south Lakes has been my inspiration for colour.

I paint with a mixture of porcelain slip, recycled nylon fibre and newsprint, flax fibre and an assortment of oxides and stains…

Colquitt, Jennifer
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View 'Jenc9 Four Trees With Moon'

After being awarded First Class Honours in Ceramics from Wolverhampton University, Jennifer taught in several departments in the Faculty of Art and Design, Birmingham City University and was appointed Senior Lecturer in the School of Industrial Ceramics where she taught until 1995.

From 1977 onwards she has always had a studio where she has developed her work…

Comins, Chris
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Chris has a very distinctive style, working with recycled Dartington glass to produce beautiful and unique hand-blown items of the highest quality.
He has served apprenticeships with many talented glass makers including Sam Herman, giving him the basis to be the consummate artist he is today.
His sculptural perfume bottles in stunning colours take the form to beyond the classical.

Cook, Alyson
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View 'Ac13 Small Earthenware Bowl'

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.

Cooper , Prue
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View 'Pc36  People Would Cycle For Miles'

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…

Cooper, Emmanuel
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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…

Corbett, Richard
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View 'Autumn'

ART AT NATURE’S EDGE
Richard hopes to entice you to venture into the dreamlike spaces he has created in his intense paintings and prints, inspired by sunlit groves and misty mornings and the sparkle of water

His work has been described as ethereal, generous, beautiful and evocative…

Cox, Chris
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View 'Chc20 Porcelain Tea Bowl'

“I gained my degree in Fine Art from Manchester College of Art in 1971. My specialism was Fine Art ( Painting and
Print-Making )… my inspiration textures and mark making.
I came to clay almost by chance after leaving college…it’s versatility a constant source of exploration and experimentation, and have been totally absorbed with the material ever since…

Cox, Jane
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View 'Jc6 Decorated Small Server'

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 its use
of rich jewel like glazes and stylish elegant forms.

As a child she grew up with the ceramics of Alan Caiger Smith and the Celtic wallpaper designs of Peggy Angus….

Crouchman, Clare
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View 'Cc3 System 3'

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…

Cruickshank, Ian
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View 'Resting On The Dart'

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…

Curtis, Clare
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View 'Cc4 Fragmented Form'

There are two main areas of her current work. Using the vessel form she fragments it and combines the organic lines and smoke firing process to create non-functional vessels. By reuniting the fragments of my vessels to complete the form once more, she is able to create a new language within her work.
Her sculptures place emphasis on balance, volume and shadow…

Dahl, Roald
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View 'Cp4 Hearing Only Thumping Loud Noises 279/495'

Very well known for his story telling and drawings.

Darby, Louise
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View 'Ld01 Elliptical Vase 2'

Louise has steadily gained a reputation for finely thrown white stoneware and porcelain, and made the techniques of incising and carving very much her own.
Stylised images of animals and plants are cut freehand into the leather-hard clay and, after biscuit firing, are inlaid with eggshell smooth glazes maturing at 1280°C…

Davies, Ben
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I use a variety of coloured and textured clays to create distinctive coiled pots which take their forms and surfaces from nature, with particular inspiration coming from beach stones and geological strata. By combining clays and layering slips, using a range of techniques, I am able to create dramatic effects without the use of glazes…

Davis, Julie
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View 'Holly 2'

2009 Graduate Artist

De Benedetti Bud, Laura
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View 'Lb1 Medium Bowl'

“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…

De Choisy, Kevin
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View 'Kc35 Vase In Qing P'ai'

Kevin was born in 1954. He trained at Harrow School of art under Colin Pearson and Walter Keeler. Kevin spent much time in the United States between 1978 and 1991 working in various pottery related positions and filling in time between ceramic jobs as a truck driver…

Debus, Monika
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View 'Md15 Bowl'

Monika makes two-tone slab-built stoneware vessels which are low salt-fired in a *reduction atmosphere.
“My particular kind of stoneware differs from that of my peers as it concentrates firstly on painting, and secondly on the vessel and its form, and therefore I complement the simplicity of my painting with a basic slab building technique…

Denyer, Isabel
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View 'Id2 Teapot'

British Studio potter

Designs, Anita’s
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Anita was trained as a window decorator. Now she creates stylish bespoke decorations for your table and around the home.
‘Anita’s Designs’ are reknowned. Her designs have decorated many people’s (some famous) homes and events

Dewar, Richard
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View 'Rd5 Teapot'

I was born in Norwich, UK in 1948. I studied pottery at Bath Academy and Harrow School of Art and set up my first studio in Gloucestershire, England in 1972. In 1979, I moved to France and established my home and workshop in a stone built farm house in the south of Brittany.
In my work, I try to combine form, texture, natural colour and the right amount of humour…

Doherty, Jack
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View 'Jd9 Unomi 3'

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…

Drakeford, Bridget
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View 'Bd13 Copper Green Bottle'

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…

Ducker, Rachel
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View 'Rd6 Sitting'

Rachel sculpts wire into human forms to create intriguing and stunning pieces. Well practiced in life drawing combined with being trained as a jeweller led Rachel to experiment with this medium and the results are truly captivating. Each sculpture is featureless and so it is the posture which says everything about the pieces, the hands being the main tools of expression.

Dufayard, Françoise
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View 'Fd1 Small Square Plate'

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…

Dyer, Sue
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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…

Edmands, Trevor
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View '4 Woman With Shawl'

Born in 1936, Trevor Edmands studied at Leeds College of Art in the 1960s to the mid 1970s.
He has since exhibited widely in the UK, Europe and in USA with key exhibitions being held in London, Cincinatti, Germany and Italy.
His work is characterised by immense variety and remarkable inventiveness.

Edmondson, Libby
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View 'Crosscanby Beach'

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…

Edmondson, Nigel
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View 'Nle29 Planter'

Nigel’s Ceramics

All of the work is handbuilt using slab construction, coiling and, occasionally, throwing and coiling in combination. Craft-crank and ‘T’ material are used, fired to 1250°C in oxidation, only limited use is made of glazes with colour coming from metal oxides and high firing slips…

Fawkes, Sally
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View 'Chance Exchange'

Glass Designer/Maker
Sally graduated with a First Class Honours Degree from Surrey Institute of Art and Design in 1998. Following her graduation she then moved on to work with Colin Reid for a year. Her work is exhibited internationally in museums and galleries and she also works to commission for public, corporate and private environments…

Ferguson , Laura
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View 'Lf 29 Utensils 2'

Laura produces a range of work combining ceramic and mixed-media such as wood and metal.
Her work is slab-built, layered with printed imagery and raku-fired. The printed imagery on her work relates to her past and the traces others leave behind…

Fletcher, Beth
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View 'Bf18  Hillside. Mist Descending'

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…

Flo, —
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View 'Flo13 Aquaramarine & African Brass Leaf'

Natural looking stones with interesting shapes and colours are the main inspiration behind my work.
Whether it be a combination of complimenting stones or the simplicity of just one stone by itself, every piece is unique and attention grabbing.
Current designs involve the use of semi precious stones such as labradorite, kyanite, aquamarine and African brass.

Floyd, Paul
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View 'Landscape Detail'

“I am strongly influenced by the natural environment and the organic aspects of glass itself.
A respectful fascination of the nature of the material and its relationship with light, leads me to explore innovative and exciting ways to create a great array of textures and forms…

Ford, Kim
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View 'Kf11 Vessel - Black & Turquoise'

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.

Forster, Matt
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View 'Snow Scene'

Initially, Matt’s work has a sense of perceived simplicity. The heightened colour values are realised by a series of controlled watercolour washes empathetic to the screen-printing process.
The methodical layering of the separate washes, applied dry on dry, allows the surface to open up a much broader palette…

Fowler, Penny
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View 'Pf4 Tall Bell Form'

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…

Foxley, Alan
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Alan studied at Bath Academy of Art and subsequently taught art in schools, eventually teaching ceramics at Saffron Walden College of Education. In 1977 he set up as a self-employed potter. He has exhibited widely in the UK and also in the USA. Alan’s current work is principally hand-built one-off pieces. He coils slabs and pinches on both a large and small scale…

Freemantle, Michelle
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View 'Mf21 Grasping The Orient Oil Pourer'

Michelle’s ceramics are functional yet stimulating and inspirational.

Michelle says-
“My pieces to date are a mix of hand built, press mould, and thrown techniques. I use stoneware clay, incorporating slips and oxides into a scratched surface. Most include snippets of thoughts or poetry written during my travels or when the subtleties of an environment evoked me…

Frith, Margaret
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View 'David & Margaret Frith'

Margaret discovered clay at Bolton College of Art and developed this enthusiasm at Stoke-on-Trent School of Art under Derek Emms. He introduced her to working with reduction fired stoneware in the Eastern tradition. It was at this time that she met her husband David and they started to lay the foundation for the establishment of their workshop which they have had now for forty years…

Fulton, Ronnie
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View '48 Rf5 The Hen Party'

Ronnie was born in Glasgow. He graduated from Glasgow School of Art with a B.A. Hons Design (Ceramics) in 1980. Since 2005, as well as making, he has worked as a part-time teacher of ceramics in various schools in East Lothian…

Gøtzsche , Ninna
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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.”

Garratt, Jonathan
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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…

Gates, Linda
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“My interest in ceramics began in California where my husband and I lived for eleven years. On returning to England in 2004, I applied to study ceramics at degree level at Bath Spa University and have recently graduated. There are many processes in the creation of the clay object, all of which could end in disaster, until finally the object is given up to the mercy of the kiln…

Gazur, Magdalena
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View 'Mg53 Organic Form  2'

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…

Gee, Tim
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View 'Tg 21 Soft Cylinder'

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…

Genders, Carolyn
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View 'Pattern, Colour And Form  - New Approaches To Creativity'

Carolyn, who was born in Singapore, has been a professional potter for over twenty years. She obtained a BA Honours Degree in Wood, Metal, Ceramics and Plastics from the, then, Brighton Polytechnic and subsequently a Postgraduate Diploma in Ceramics from Goldsmiths College. She is a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association and a Member of the Society of Craftsmen Designers…

Guy, Anne
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View 'Working With Colour In Your Garden'

Garden Designer

Hake, James
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View 'Jh1 Nuka Bowl - July 2010 Pot Of The Month'

“I work at the potter’s wheel, specialising in large bowls and one off pieces I also make slab rolled work including wall hangings and square dishes.
My work I decorated with a range of oriental glazes, these are applied quickly by dipping and pouring in different combinations which fuse together in the heat of the kiln…

Hall, James
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View 'Spring Flooded Pathway Nr Clent'

“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…

Hall, Jennifer
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View 'Jh8 Breakdfast Cup & Saucer ( S G + B )'

Jennifer graduated from Cardiff in 1994. She has a studio near Rhayader in mid Wales where she pots on a kickwheel, making slip-decorated, useable earthenware.

Hall, Morgen
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View '64   Mh1 Tea Caberet Set'

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.

Hamer, Janet
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View 'The Potter's Dictionary - Book Of The Month - April 2009'

Janet Hamer’s birds are first and foremost sculptures made in ceramics. There is excitement in the essentialised shapes and the use of colour.
Hollow vessels are transformed by simple additions into evocations of geese, ducks and grebes. A subject is always based on a particular species, observing the shape evolved for a lifestyle, the patterns and colours…

Hamlyn, Jane
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View 'Jh 16 Casserole'

Current Work
Raw-fired saltglazed stoneware pots, thrown and hand-built, for everyday use and for ornament.
When salt is thrown into a hot kiln the sodium vapour comes into contact with the particles of silica on the surface of the clay pots and melts them, forming a glaze i.e. the skin of the pot itself becomes the glaze…

Hammond, Lisa
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View '94 Lh9 Small Black & White Shino Chawan'

Lisa has for the last 25 years been committed to making and teaching salt and soda vapour glaze studio pottery. In 1994 Lisa set up her present studio, a converted railway station in Greenwich London.
Her work embraces an extensive range of thrown functional ware for the preparation, cooking, serving and eating food from…

Harris, John
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View 'Jh36 Winter Trees'

John is essentially a landscape artist;
He wanders from Worcestershire scenes to Africa and the Middle East in search of varied subjects.
The Rivers Severn, the Usk and the Wye are frequently depicted in his work but of late, he has been moving to more abstract responses to rivers and estuaries…

Harris, Sally
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View 'Sh15 Bronze Indian Runner Drake 24/45'

“Working in bronze is new to me.
I studied Three Dimensional Design at Bath Academy of Art, specialising in Ceramics, followed by a PGCE at Lancaster, then taught.
I was born and grew up in Herefordshire enjoying life on a farm, found some clay in a ditch and started making pots. I did my Foundation course at Hereford school of Art…

Harrison, Claire
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View 'Ch17 Pink Anenomes'

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…

Harrison, Steve
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View 'Sh12 Bowl - Romancing This Stone'

Steve Harrison is an important Australian ceramicist. He specialises in wood-fired porcelain. His work has been described as “radical localism” given that his elegantly ‘simple’ vessels are made almost entirely of locally prospected raw materials. Like the French winemaker, Steve sees ‘terroir’ as the authentic provenance of his pots…

Haugaard, Aase
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View '66 Ah10 Wavy Porcelean Bowl'

Denmark
As a studio ceramist, Aase sees herself responsible for the whole ceramic process going from wedging the clay to taking the finished pot out of the kiln.
Shapes and structures are of great importance. Her main interest is in the choice of firing and especially the related effects and changes each method applies to her pots…

Hayes, Peter
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View 'Raku'

Peter Hayes’ ceramics lead an unusually adventurous life before they reach the gallery. Not only are they subjected to the hazards of raku firing, involving huge shocks in temperature and thick, blackening smoke, but they are submerged in a flowing river for months at a time. Hayes’ studio is an old Toll house on a bridge over the Avon…

Healey, Mike
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View 'Chelsea 1'

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…

Heinz, Regina
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View '28 Rh9 Point Of View'

Inspired by the mountaineous landscape of her home country Austria and constructed from soft slabs of clay, Regina Heinz’s pieces display an organic and sensual quality. Reminiscent both of the intimacy of a body and the flowing lines of a landscape, her work, equally, can be seen as purly abstract – dealing with form, volume, line and colour…

Hewitt, Sam
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View 'North Street'

Sam Hewitt studied visual and performing art at Brighton University and fine art foundation at Stourbridge College. Prior to that, a Rudolph Steiner primary education and evening classes in figure drawing from former Goldsmiths lecturer Sam Rabin, have shaped his approach to colour and the human form…

Higgins, John
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View 'Jh5 Platter With Bowl'

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…

Higgs, Pete
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View 'Ph6 Autumn Leaf ( Large )'

Natural and organic forms are one of the principal subjects in my ceramic work. In last years sculpture show at Bevere, I exhibited a large brick-carved autumn leaf bowl. This year I have concentrated on making smaller pieces that can be incorporated into any size of garden.
My autumn leaf bowls are made from large single slabs of local brick clay…

Hilde, Mark
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View '124  Mh3 Hurricane (blue/black)'

A thirty year background in precision engineering has trained me to work with a meticulous eye for tight tolerances, refined lines and defined angles. My interests in nature and contemporary architecture have been incorporated to create pieces that contain the essence of natural forms in shapes that have clarity of line and beauty in simplicity…

Hill, Eric
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View 'Cp25 Spot At The Circus 112/495'

Eric Hill Spot Collector’s Edition Prints
Eric Hill was born in Holloway, North London in 1927. As a graphic designer he was working on a novelty advertising mailer with flaps to lift up. The flaps made his two-year-old son laugh, so Eric created a lift-the-flap book especially for him about a mischievous puppy called Spot…

Hirai, Akiko
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View '70 Ah8 Sake Cup'

Akiko produces domestic ware for everyday use. She bases her designs on Japanese aesthetics of relativity, the beauty of imperfection, irregularity, spontaneity, and impurity. It is a white slipware depiction of a woman who is wearing white make-up. It is called Kohiki (powder blown) ware…

Hoadley, Thomas
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View '9 Th851 Tall Vessel-  Pot Of The Month -october 2009'

My current ceramic work reflects an investigation into several areas of interest and an attempt to unify solutions to various visual problems. One interest is in the vessel as an abstract sculptural form and its many associations, both literal and metaphoric. Another is pattern and color and how a collection of abstract elements can create various feelings or impressions…

Hopkins – Gibson, Thomas
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View '41 Thg Insert Bowl'

Thomas’s fascination with the form and texture of wood is evident in his work; replicating wood is not his goal, it is the starting point that takes him from the wood turning lathe to the plaster cast, to hand building and back to the lathe in an association of ideas that informs and educates as it evolves…

Hopkins, Dean
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View 'Dh2 Aurora Light Form -red'

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…

Howard, Ashley
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View '48 Ah9 Teabowl With Enamel Collage'

In 2003 Ashley Howard graduated from the Royal College of Art, having taken time out from his career as a maker and lecturer to study for a Masters degree. On the face of it, this decision could be seen as something of an indulgence, but in fact the decision to re-enter education as a mature student demanded a good deal of courage…

Howells, Chris
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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…

Howells, Joanna
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View 'Jh7 Jug'

“My work concentrates on form and texture. I make pieces which are simple yet have a softness, a freedom and a sculptural quality.
I work in porcelain, for its innate beauty and because its smoothness allows the use of subtle textures. The pieces are altered to both exploit and escape the soft cylinders and circles imposed by the wheel.
I’m often asked about sources of inspiration….

Howells, Sue
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View 'Rolling Clouds'

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.

Hughes, Christopher
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View '3. Malvern Hills'

Christopher Hughes left the famous Royal Worcester Porcelain Company in 1980 to become a freelance artist…

Hughes, Shirley
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View 'Cp30 Camping Out  67/195'

Shirley Hughes is one of the most highly-respected children’s authors and illustrators working today.
She has written over seventy books, including Dogger and the Alfie series, and illustrated many more by other writers. She has been published across the world and generations of children have grown up enthralled and comforted by her work.

Humber, Amelia
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View 'Devoran'

Amelia’s oil paintings strive to relay the atmosphere and emotion of the landscape through a personal and momentary experience. They contain the ideas of capturing the sublime and those immediate feelings of drama in a continuously changing landscape, which she feels are inexplicable through words and drives her to explore and express these emotions through the media of paint and line…

Humphry, Maggie
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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…

Jackson, Paul
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View 'Pj18 Mug'

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…

Jackson, Richard
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View 'Guarding The Heart'

Glass Designer/Maker
Richard’s sculptures begin as ideas, with titles anchoring them in his imagination. The forms then develop to give a voice to the idea. Curving planes and shifting volumes, delicate points and perfect curving edges result in beautiful, intriguing and complex forms…

James, Jeremy
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View '/jj1 Cock - Crow'

“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.

Jenkins, Jean
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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’.

Jerem, Anita
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View 'Cp31  I Love You All The Way Up 220/495'

Illustrations by Anita for
Sam McBratney’ Book
Guess How much I Love You

Jirankova – Limbrick, Martina
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View 'Hello'

Artist

Johnson, John L.
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View 'Wooden Tractor,wagon, Chickens And Ducks'

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.

Johnstone, Emma
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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.

Jones, Dave
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View 'Cottage Clock'

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…

Jones, David
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View 'Dj12 Black Metalised Bowl'

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…

Jones, Huw
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View 'Craiglwyd'

An Anglesey artist, his work includes landscapes in oil paint of the island and North Wales. Powerful, spiritual works, based on observations of the environment.
There is an emphasis on pushing the boundaries of painting, with variations in the application of paint creating a range of feelings…

Judd, Andrew
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View 'Aj10 Malverns 1/45'

Andrew, who trained in Fine Art in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, lives and works in Malvern.
Imagery derives mostly from charcoal drawings sketched on walks. He has been cutting and printing from his own lino blocks, using a home-made press, for the last eight years…

Judkins, Linda
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View 'Lj11 Above Langdale'

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.

Jupp , Mo
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View 'Mj3 Small Sitting Figure'

MO was born in South London in 1938. He graduated first from Camberwell Art School where he was taught by Hans Coper, Lucy Rie and Colin Pearson and later developed his vocation in ceramics at the Royal College of Art.
Since the 1960’s he has been teaching and lecturing in many English art colleges. His work enjoys worldwide esteem…

Kato, Jill Fanshawe
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View '179 Jfk41 Vessel With Blue Handle'

A kinship with nature is visible in JILL FANSHAWE KATO’s unusual ceramics.
To Jill birds are the embodiment of freedom. Not surprising therefore that, following a degree in Painting at Chelsea and Pottery in Japan, everything she makes in clay reveals this affinity…

Katzenstein., Lisa
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View 'Lk 24/ 24a Pair Of Cones'

“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…

Kavanagh, Daniel
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View 'Dk2 Vessel With Wings'

Ceramic work is hand thrown using either earthenware or porcelain clays, some pieces are formed using a selection of parts, which are then assembled by hand and fired up to temperatures of around 1100 degrees for earthenware and 1300 degrees for porcelain. My work attempts to create parallels between contemporary Fine Art and Craft practices…

Keeler, Walter
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View '21 Wk21 ' E ' Ware Jug'

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.

Walter says”The pottery tradition is at the heart of all my work. Pottery for use has been central to all settled human communities…

Keeney, Christy
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View 'Ck29 Horse'

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…

Keogh, Karen
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View 'By The Bhodi Tree 35/50'

My work consists of vibrantly coloured, three-plate etchings and painterly monotypes, which take the landscape for inspiration. Recently, however, my work has become more abstract, as I simplify shapes and find patterns within the landscape. Using three metal plates for each print is labour intensive, technically difficult, and requires a great deal of foresight…

Key, Ray
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Creative Woodturner of international renown

Ray has loved making things from wood throughout his life; his first recollections are from around the age of seven. Whittling, carving and fretwork were all interests.
He has been a member of the Worcestershire Guild of Designer Craftsmen since 1973.
He has been turning wood for over forty years…

Kim, Sun
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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…

Klausmann, Markus
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View 'Mk3 Geschn - Hoher Becher'

Markus decided to break new ground and pushed the development of Asian glazes, particularly Shino and wood firing.
 He began to develop new vessel and dish shapes, the highlight of which, and confirmation of his change of direction was the first Prize in the competition “Artistic vessel” Contemporary Ceramics, Offenburg…

Klein, Anita
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View 'Ak9 Little Sitting Angel'

One of the UK’s most prominent and successful artists, Anita is BOTH a painter and a printmaker and her works which depict her family life have received broad acclaim.

”I want to celebrate the small moments we all tend to overlook. They’re the really important things…..

Knapp – Fisher, John
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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…

Laffan, Andy
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My preferred sculpture technique is direct carving, whether in stone or wood I prefer not to do too much preliminary design or maquette work and enjoy the process of carving itself and like to let the form evolve from the material and dictate its own final appearance…

Landreau, Jean-paul
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View 'Jpl3 Hand Built Vase'

Jean-Paul treats the surface of the work as a painter uses canvas. Multiple layers of coloured clays, slips and sgraffito motifs share influences drawn from Leger, Cocteau and Braque.
In his more abstract figures he enjoys the interplay of the motif and the form. Each design is intended to ‘Sing out to the viewers own imagination’…

Lane, Malcolm
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View '"light"- worcester cathedral collection'

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.

Lane, Peter
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View 'Pl4 Evening Sky 1'

Peter describes himself as “basically a vessel-maker”, although he is interested more in form and surface than function in the work he produces. Much of his stimulus comes from his love of natural forms and landscape. He has become particularly well-known for his carved and/or pierced porcelain bowls, several of which are in important public collections…

Layton, Peter
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View '47 Aplo2 Skyline'

“I think that if people live with beautiful or stimulating things they will live, breathe, and
think better. These are difficult, even fearful times, and I am reminded of a poem I wrote that ended:
“and what was there
before time or magic
And what will remain after
Will there be relics?”
I sincerely hope so, and that my glass will be found among them…

Le Corre, Gilles
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View 'Gc30 Bulbous Vase'

Gilles 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

Leach, John
(view Gallery).

View 'Jl17 Lugged Flask With Ash Glaze'

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…

Lee, Jo
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Jo Lee is a multi-media artist based in Leeds. Core to her work is a fascination with the human form and the human condition. Jo’s work is influenced by ordinary day-to-day events, life, living and ultimately our demise and is interested by the ways in which a person’s life can be acknowledged and validated…

Lewin-cadogan, Jan
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View 'Jlc6 Open Vessel With Base'

NATURAL CONNECTIONS
Jan Lewin-Cadogan is a ceramic artist who lives and works in the beautiful valleys of West Wales. Having studied Ceramic Fine Art at The West Wales School of Art in Carmarthenshire, she holds a First Class Honours degree and is currently represented by galleries in both Wales and England…

Lewis, Jacqueline B
(view Gallery).

View 'Jbl11 Wrapped Vessel'

I work on the wheel with porcelain and stoneware and explore variations on the vessel form. Fast and free gestural markings and painterly brushstrokes, inspired by music, rhythm, travel, explore plane and surface and conclude with the serendipitous play of fire in salt-glazing. Individual items range from 9cm to 50cm.

Lewis, Leon
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View '77 Ll4 Pine, Steel & Brass Strap'

Art Designer in Timber and metal

Leon Lewis – Designer and Maker in Timber and Metal
Leon’s work follows a fascination of the relationship between the man-made and natural world.
Inspiration comes from steam powered machinery of the Industrial Revolution era as this awakens sensations of power and dynamism…

Lillerman, Sue
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View 'Sl6 Sphere'

Sue recycles in a different way. She keeps interesting shaped glass bottles and makes moulds and remakes the shapes with clay, altering each one by using different types of clay, changing the shapes slightly so that each ‘recycled’ bottle is different. She finishes some of her work by burnishing then fires to bisque…

Littlechild, Sue
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View 'Sl2  Grey Bowl On Curved Base'

“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”.

Lossock, Neil
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View 'Nl3 Allium'

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.”

Lovell, Andy
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View 'Wiltshire Cornfield 9/14'

Artist/Printmaker
Andy was born in east London. He studied at Liverpool School of Art and Design (1983-86) where he specialised in illustration. He has had numerous commissions for newspapers, magazines and books and held several exhibitions of his prints. He works using drawing and painting as the starting point for his prints, mainly lithographs and silkscreen prints.

Lowe, Kate
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I am trying to express that energy or feeling we experience when we have time to take in an image or view and then see it in our minds eye later on. Reflecting times I have spent domestically at home and away on travels, the smaller things in everyday life still move me as much as the big adventures we have away from it too…

Lungley, Martin
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View 'Ml139 Teapot'

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…

Lynn, Trudy
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View 'Tl 7 Can You Hear The Silence'

” Without seeing and experiencing life how can an artist possibly have anything to paint ?”
“Born in 1960 I have always maintained a passion for art, Graduating from St Martins London with a Fine Art Degree in 1981 and going on to work as an interior designer in the UK and internationally for twenty years…

Mac Culloch, Ian
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View '1m 41 Daisy Field A/p'

Since studying at Northampton School of Art, Ian has worked as a teacher, freelance designer, finished artist/illustrator and computer printmaker. In recent years etching has come to be Ian’s primary vehicle of expression.
Many of his etching utilise traditional techniques and processes, but a large part of his work remains experimental…

Macdonell, Alasdair Neil
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Neil MacDonell
Professional member of The Craft Potters Association
Born in Southwark, London. My Father was an architect and my two sisters and I had a lot of exposure to the arts and crafts, particularly old buildings! I remember becoming aware of the creative effects of fire when a neighbours wooden garage containing an ancient ash framed van caught fire…

Macdonell, Sally
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Sally MacDonell
Professional member of The Craft Potters Association
I am continually fascinated by people. I’m a great observer of people and thrive on interaction with others. I explore the human condition by modelling the female form from clay; changing the mood and feeling of a piece by the positioning of a shoulder or hand…

Macgregor, Duncan
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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…

Mackinnon, Blake & Janette
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View 'Mac115 Large Hollow Teracotta Jubly Bead Earrings'

Blake and Janette both trained at art school in London. Blake in ceramics and jewellery at Central School and Janette in ceramics at Croydon College.

Blake was in charge of the ceramics department at Portsmouth College of Art and subsequently Croydon College…

Malone, Jim
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View 'Jm2 Yuomi With Ridge'

Jim is one of Britain’s foremost potters
He has been making high fired stoneware pottery since the early seventies. He works alone producing a wide range of individual pottery forms…

Maltby, John
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View 'Jm5 Family & Boat'

John Maltby, whose work needs little introduction, is one of the best known sculptural potters working in England. He has a quite distinct voice and the past year seems to have been a particularly prolific and creative one.
Born in Lincolnshire in 1936 he studied at Leicester College of Art and Goldsmith’s College. He joined David Leach in 1962 and established his own workshop in 1964.

Marsh, Bert
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View 'Bm18 Cocobolo ( Rosewood ) Vase'

Bert has spent his life working with wood and it is his love of it, coupled with a deep understanding of its ways, which have influenced his work.
He served an apprenticeship as a cabinet-maker, designing and producing quality commissioned furniture.
In 1965 he taught at Brighton Polytechnic, and in 1982 he decided to concentrate on his own work…

Marsh, Matthew
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View 'Mm1 Teapot'

Wolverhampton graduate in Pottery

Marsh, Pete
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View 'Winter Track To Pendleburys'

Pete attempts to produce, not just a facsimile of what he sees, but something that expresses what he and (hopefully) his audience feels.
He feels his work is perceptual rather than conceptual, emotional rather than intellectual and he prefers expression over realism, subtlety over sensationalism, substance over novelty and intuition over reason…

Marshall, Will Levi
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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…

Martin, James
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View 'Mountain Pass'

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…

Matheson, Andrew
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View 'Am6 Bowl With Red Spots'

RBSA
The wheel is central to my method of making and all work is Reduction fired to 1280’c with glazes based on classic recipes.
I generally work with either a stoneware or porcelain body. The bowls though similar in form, each one is unique depending upon how the glaze is applied to the form or the way that two glazes react when overlapping…

Mattos, Marcio
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View 'Mm175 Decorative Plate'

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…

Mc William, Niall
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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…

Mcdonagh, Kay
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View 'Dog  In  Black'

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…

Mcintyre, Hannah
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View 'Hm91 Small Picture'

My interest in architecture, in particular steel bridges has caused me to look closer at the intricate and complex patterns that they portray. I love the symmetry and the precision of these bridges and their huge scale.
I combine the essence of these large structures with thin pieces of clay, portraying them through framed wall tiles…

Mckay, Rowan
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View 'Bedded Form'

Stone Sculptor

Mcwiliam , Martin
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Martin says
“What I am looking for in my work with ‘clay and fire’ lies in their own essential beauty and the play between them – a beauty subjective , difficult to define, control or repeat – something to do with chance coincidence. My methods are as simple / direct as possible where chance has space to surprise…

Melbourne, Mark
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View 'Mm1 Handled Bottle'

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.

Mellon – 85th Birthday Celebration, Eric James
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View 'Ejm86 Tile - Nude'

Eric James Mellon in his 85th year is as prolific and creative as ever. Born in 1925 and drawing since the age of seven on any material he could find, he later developed techniques and glazes which enabled him to fix his drawing onto high fired stoneware. His research into ash glazes alone is enough to secure his place amongst the innovators of studio ceramics…

Mellon, Eric James
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View 'Ejm66 Sarah 49/50'

Eric James Mellon is a potter dedicated to the ceramic process who is also skilled as a graphic artist…

Merry, Ewen
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View 'Dead Tree, Rannoch Moor'

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…

Moss, Eric
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View 'Em20 Squid ( Squat, Plain White )'

I work in raku as I like the way the finished pots reflect their ‘elemental’ journey from mud to ceramic: I think this particular process imparts a ‘sense of life’ within a piece.

The transparent crackle glaze I use dresses tightly-controlled, thrown, sculpted forms in a complementary random and natural effect punctuated by paper and glue resisted areas…

Muchelney Pottery-, John Leach
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View 'Mp24 Salt Pig'

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…

Murray, Claire
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View 'Cm1 Wing Nut Man'

CLAIRE MURRAY has worked with clay since her early twenties – as both a student and during her career as a teacher. She now devotes her time to the development of her own work and teaching in schools as a clay artist.
She is a figurative ceramicist and her current work is based around the complexities of human communication…

Nakajima, Hiromi
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View 'Hn19 Cat Head'

Working with animals makes me very happy, and one way I can share this is through the ceramics I make.

Animal behaviour is so expressive and entertaining that I feel as if they can almost talk.
I believe that smiling is very important in life, and it is my hope that the animals I create will, in turn, bring a smile to your face.

Nemeth, Susan
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View 'Sn19 Striped With Red Bowl'

My current work is influenced by fabric designs from the 1950’s and 60’s. The painters, Ben Nicholson, Paul Klee and Eva Hesse influence some pieces.
I am a designer and maker of handmade porcelain vases, bowls and decorative platters, 12cm – 40cm in diameter.
The decoration is integral using inlays of coloured clays and slips…

Niblett, Andrew
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View 'An33 Tiny Bowl'

Andrew has had an affinity with clay from the moment his parents bought him his first potter’s wheel at the age of five. Enthusiastic schoolteachers encouraged this early enjoyment of art, in particular clay…

Nichols, Jeremy
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View 'Jn11 Small Open Handle Jug'

I make saltglazed domestic pots, specialising in teapots together with jugs, mugs and cups of varying shapes and sizes. These have been steadily evolving since 2000 when I started experimenting with open handles as an alternative to the closed loops conventionally used in ceramics…

Nottage, Helen
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View 'Hn4 Feet'

Helen graduated from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff in 2002, with a BA (Hons.) Ceramics. She has since completed an MA at Wolverhampton University.
She has used her MA to develop her professional practise and to branch out into different areas of artNottage; developing work to be encountered in different realms such as public art and gallery pieces…

Ostinelli, & Priest
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View 'Blue Dreams'

The perfect example of 2 heads working as one. Drawing on their individual strengths, combining their talent and experience, these 2 artists have established the range of work featured in this
Sculpture Trail

Padley, Rachel
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View 'Rp11 Flora'

My career as an artist began in 1976. When I left school, I went to work as a stone carver at St Paul’s Cathedral. I subsequently went on to obtain an honours degree in sculpture at Kennington School of Art. I then went on to work as a conservator of ancient monuments at, among other places, Arundel Castle and Harewood House…

Palin, Andrew
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View 'Ap19 Large Manganese Thrown Bowl'

Andrew was born and brought up in the coastal Northwest of England but has now lived in Warwickshire for six years.
It was during his scientific career, researching his PhD in mammalian genetics and chromosomal biology at Cambridge, that he discovered ceramics and began a long fascination with the art form, both making and collecting…

Palmer, Jitka
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View 'Jp2  Pure'

I was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
I work both in clay and on paper,
combining drawing skills, with my knowledge of human anatomy and clay technology.

Pargeter, Richard
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View 'Sailing Boats'

Born in the Midlands in 1976, Richard’s artistic leanings were obvious from an early age. As a child he dreamed of being a painter, and he regards himself as one of life’s lucky ones, gifted with the talent to turn dreams into reality…

Partington, Janine
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View 'Jp98 Small Enamel'

I am a designer-maker based in Bristol combining the traditional craft of enamelling with fresh, clean, contemporary design.
Enamelling is the art of fusing glass onto metal. Watching an enamelled copper panel emerging from a kiln glowing red hot after being fired at a temperature of 800°C is always an exciting experience. As the metal cools the true colours of the panel emerge…

Paterson, Pauline
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View '206 Pp10 Squared Dish'

Pauline was born and educated in North London. She left school at fifteen and worked as an Assistant Stage Manager and actress in various repertory companies as well as in the West End of London, film and television. Pauline eventually became a television Production Assistant and worked her way up to Assistant Producer…

Pearson, Isla
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View 'Threshold 2'

Artist based in Gloucestershire

Peel, Rob
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View '116 Rp12  Firle Park'

COMBINED PROCESS ON PAPER
‘A painting is an accumulation of time apprehended instantaneously’ Peter Lanyon
In the continuous framework of experience over time, the past and present find their equivalents within a working process, where a kind of alchemy takes place…

Percival, Anja
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View 'Interior Light 3  6/50'

I am a printmaker, and the majority of my work combines collagraph and etching techniques to build up multilayered imagery with rich, textural surfaces. My prints utilise both representational and abstract elements, to produce images that portray my experience of the landscape.

I am fascinated by the different atmospheres that light creates in both our rural and urban environments…

Perring, Susie
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View 'Night Birds - Artist's Proof'

Nowadays I work almost entirely in aquatint (images made up entirely of tones, with no drawn lines) or make monoprints painted directly on the printing plate.
I love aquatints for the range of contrast possible, and for the velvety effect it gives, especially with darker colours…

Phelps, Barbara
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View 'Bp1 Plaque  - Wirescape'

After a career teaching, Barbara graduated recently as a mature student in Visual Arts.
Her work both in ceramics and painting refers to the influence of man on the environment. Changes in colour and shape of the earth are remnants of industry which can be represented by oxides and volcanic glazes or by textural surfaces.

Phethean, Richard
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View 'Rp2 Articulated Jug Form'

Richard is an established professional potter whose work has been exhibited throughout the UK and can be found in collections internationally. He is a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association, and is on the Crafts Council of Great Britain’s Index of Selected Makers.
His latest work primarily focuses on honey and clear glazed finishes…

Phillips, Jonathan
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View 'Jph4 Yunomi'

“My work is made to be used and enjoyed. It is all thrown using a stoneware clay. I keep the forms as simple as possible, working on the subtle variations and contrasts that highlight one form from another.
For the surfaces I layer slips and glazes, to create a rich and varied effect, and use a combination of dipping, pouring and hakeme to make spontaneous marks which compliment the form.

Pollex, John
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View 'Jp28 Teapot'

John Pollex has worked in all areas of slip-decoration since the early seventies. In the mid eighties he developed a range of highly coloured slips which he now applies to his work with a variety of sponges and brushes.

Popham, Amanda
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Amanda Popham. September 2008

Narrative ceramics which may seem, at first glance, decorative and playful but, like all good stories, can be ambiguous or sinister or have an air of thoughtful melancholy…

Potts, Tracey
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View 'Tp41 Tiny Pot 5'

2009 Graduate Potter

Powell, Joanna
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View 'Winter Landscape, Worcestershire'

Artist

Praed, Michael
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View 'Morning Oranges, Newlyn'

Michael Praed’s work ranges from large canvases of landscape and sea to smaller paintings depicting familiar, friendly scenes of Cornishmen at work; from long, lonely beaches on the Isles of Scilly to the bustle of the Newlyn fish market; but always illustrating the observational and technical skills of the artists to marvelous effect…

Ramp
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View 'Ra08t Large Jug'

All the ceramics are hand-made; thrown on the wheel by Rupert Johnstone and then hand painted by Alice Hartford. The current range is fired at earthenware temperature. Colour is first applied using various clay slips. When the clay slip is drying, scraffito tools are used to incise lines through the colour and create specific designs…

Read, Alison
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Alison is from Lincoln and specialises in hand made original prints in a variety of methods; Screenprints, Etchings/Aquatinting and Linocuts.
The subject matter is quirky, fun and mainly animal humour, but always different.

In the main, Alison is a known as a printmaker, although she has had commissions in bronze. She studied at Newcastle University, completing her B.A.(Hons) in Fine Art.

Rees, Nick
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View 'Nr21 Fluted Tea Bowl'

Nick Rees
Born 1949, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset
Nick Rees works as master potter for John Leach at Muchelney Pottery, hand-throwing a repeat range of stoneware kitchen pots and everyday tableware, as well as making individual signed pieces, mainly bottle and bowl forms in wood-fired stoneware.
Nick has worked with John Leach at the Pottery since 1972…

Richards, Andrew
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View 'Ar1 Yunomi (teabowl)'

” I have been making pots for over 20 years and exhibited all over Britain. My work has evolved and matured and followed many different styles and techniques, but eventually I have returned to my first love Wood Firing.”

Andrew uses local materials- clay, rocks and ash. He has built 2 kilns enabling him to produce a variety of work which reflects his own style

Richards, Christine -ann
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View 'Large Urn - Fire'

Christine-Ann Richards trained at Harrow School of Art and Technology with Mick Casson (1971-73), then worked with David Leach. In London, she started her own workshop as a member of the Barbican Arts Group (1975-83) and in 1976 was elected to membership of the Craftsmen Potters Association and the Society of Designer Craftsmen…

Richards, Nicola
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View 'Nr11 Bowl  - Multi Pattern'

For many years I had been getting increasingly tired of the constraints of slip casting and glazing and had been searching for a freer way of working. Since 2000 two events have been central to my new way of working. A Jane Perryman five-day course and a trip to Malawi, working with Malawian potters, changed my whole outlook and presented me with a wealth of new possibilities…

Robinson, John
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View 'Self Portrait As A Musician (2)'

While studying art in 1999 John won the Peter Spicer Student of the Year award. Part of his prize was an exhibition of his work at the Bevere Vivis Gallery in Worcester UK which was the forerunner of the Gallery at Bevere.

John paintings are documents of a strange unknown performance. Narratives are subtly unraveled and then contradicted…

Robison, Jim
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Jim Robison’s primary focus is the creation of ceramics with sculptural and architectural applications. These are often slab-ware vessels, which are individual pieces and sculpture commissions.

He is a frequent demonstrator and is well known for his lectures and courses. He is an elected Fellow of the Craft Potters Association…

Rogers, Phil
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View 'Pr17 Nuka Faceted Bottle'

My work is divided approximately equally between two kilns. About half is Salt Glazed in a 60 cu.ft. kiln that is fired with propane gas and the other half in my old and trusted oil fired kiln of 75 cu.ft.
Salt Glazing is an exciting, but often less than predictable, method of firing pottery. As the kiln approaches the height of the firing the temperature has risen to a white hot 1260C…

Ross Thompson, Sarah
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View '25 Cloud Menagerie 1/20'

Sarah Ross-Thompson is a Fine Art Printmaker specialising in hand-inked, original collagraph prints inspired by the Dorset landscape.
Using carefully built collage blocks, her work combines the vibrant colours of oil-based printing inks with the textural qualities of the materials she uses. This combination produces a distinctive look that makes her work instantly recognisable…

Ross, Vivienne
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View 'Vr36 Mug'

All Vivienne’s work is made using red earthenware clay, which is decorated using coloured slips and underglazes. Her interest lies in making pots which act as containers for both objects and ideas. Each piece is unique; hand-made, individually decorated and signed…

Rossman, Fritz
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View 'Fr11 Vessel Form'

In this exhibition he works with porcelain with a red slip, creating characteristic horizontal banding with contrasting glazed and unglazed areas.
His forms are decidedly contemporary, bearing little resemblance to any ceramic traditions.
Fritz is a skilled thrower as anyone seeing his demonstrations will confirm.

Ruggiero, Nici
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View 'Nr7  Pucker  Pot 2 ( Small)'

“Ambiguity surrounds my work, through which I strive to sensitively engage the viewer.
Thrown, altered and nurtured on the potter’s wheel or meticulously hand built using coils, my sculptural monochromic vessels are Raku fired and then left naked without glaze, only dressed by delicate decoration painted in smoke…

Saba, Suleyman
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View 'Ss5 Katakuchi ( Spouted Bowl )'

“I was born into an Australian musical family. Dinners were eaten from plates that had been glazed in eucalyptus ash and wood-fired in a climbing kiln built by Col Levy in New South Wales, Australia. We still have those plates.
Subsequent, and formative influences were kindled by Geoffrey Whiting, who introduced me to the ideas of Bernard Leach and the Sung aesthetic…

Saddington, Patricia
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View 'Ps10 Carnyorth, Pendeen'

SaddingtonAlthough my ideas and inspiration come from the Cornish landscape, especially West Cornwall, people often say my paintings remind them of other landscapes, usually a place or a time that has a special meaning for them.

This is not unexpected as when we look at an abstracted image we bring to it our visual memories. So for each of us it has its own meaning.

Salt, Michael
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View 'Snowdonia'

Michael Salt was born in 1955 in North Worcestershire and studied at Stourbridge Art College.
After working in Jersey and Wales as a Graphic Artist, he returned to his own town of Stourbridge, to concentrate on painting.
He finds inspirations in varying subjects, the British countryside, whether rural or coastal, buildings, railways and aircraft…

Sawtell, Lily
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View 'After Klimpt The Kiss-'

Lily studied sculpture at Harrow School of Art in London, and her figures have gone to collectors as far afield as the U.S., New Zealand and Australia, as well as throughout the U.K. and Europe. Lily’s love of African and Oceanic art is clearly reflected in her work and the early influence of Brancusi and Modigliani have contributed to the special character of her figures…

Schloessingk, Micki
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View 'Ms16 Tea Bowl'

Micki lives & works in the beautiful environment of the Gower Penninsular, South Wales, where she makes wood-fired, salt-glazed ceramics.
As one of very few potters in the UK making contemporary wood fired salt glazed work.
Micki explains
“The packing of a salt kiln is very intricate and time consuming…

Scott Martin , John
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View 'Jsm23  " Marielle " Sailing Into The Sunset'

John Scott Martin RSBA
John was born in Nottingham and studied painting at Nottingham College of Art in the 60’s. He lives in rural Warwickshire, just about as far from the sea as you can get. This doesn’t stop him from making frequent trips to the coast to build his picture library…

Scott, Paul
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View '105 Ps4 Scott's Cumbrian Blue ( S )  Bowl No 3'

My work involves the digital manipulation of established vocabularies of printed motif, pattern and image from industrial ceramic archives and engraved book illustration. Cloning and collaging these, sometimes with photographic elements, I create contemporary artworks in ceramic and printed form.

Sellars, Karinna
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View 'Ks3 Splash'

Karinna is a contemporary artist / maker with a passion for creating unique objects from hot glass.
Using traditional glass blowing and hand forming skills combined with modern design, Karinna creates elegant pieces ranging from luxury giftware to one off art forms…

Shaw , Vicky
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View 'Vs35 Untitled Porcelain Print 3'

Vicky holds a BA (Hons) and A Masters degree in ceramics from CNAA, Staffordshire Polytechnic, now Staffordshire University.

Vicky is noted for her work in porcelain, particularly for her expertise in porcelain finishes and her distinctive use of colour and form…

Shread, Peter
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View 'Ps15 Valley In Wales'

Peter says
“I was born in Birmingham and trained at Moseley School of Art and Birmingham College of Art…

Sleator, Jane
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View 'Jas4 Wood Knot'

Intricate beauty and hidden details of nature play a central role in my work, coupled with a love of throwing as a means of making.
Beautiful markings and fascinating features, created by the forces of nature, are taken directly from the bark of trees to distort and subtly texture the surface of my finely thrown bowls…

Smith, Daniel
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View 'Ds 54 Small Oil Bottle'

Daniel Smith produces a wide range of hand-thrown porcelain tableware. His honest and simple approach results in an understated elegance. The weight of the porcelain in the hand combined with the pure delicate forms makes each piece a delight to hold and use.

Smith, Mark
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View 'Ms4 2 Pebble Boats On Abstract Groins'

Each piece of work by Mark Smith draws inspiration from the sea, and each has it’s own unique appearance and story to tell.
Objects found on travels or by shoreline often become part of the work.
Mark uses a variety of techniques to achieve the finished look of a piece, focusing mainly on decay and repair…

Smith, Trevor. A.
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Author of “Sketching Wild Birds”
Trevor combines a career in wildlife conservation with his passion for wildlife art. He has been painting for 25 years, working from life whenever possible; the British countryside and its wildlife providing the inspiration for his work…

Sparke, Stephen
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View 'Ss11 Wood Fired Vase'

Stephen makes and fires much of his work in West Wales with Joe Finch. However he is also becoming something of a travelling potter working in Gloucestershire, Ireland, and wherever else the opportunity to woodfire exists.

He is passionate about wood firing…

Spence, Emma
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View 'Es1-5 Group Of Five Small Standing Figures'

“My interest in ceramics started over twenty years ago in Cornwall where I grew up. I spent summers in my father’s Gallery in Padstow observing and selling crafts to the holiday makers whilst he painted. After leaving school I studied at Plymouth College of Art and achieved a Higher National Diploma in Ceramics…

Stafford, Dan
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Dan makes hand-built architectural ceramics using earthenware, slips and glazes.
He trained to be a ceramicist and spent a number of years as an education technician at Camden Arts Centre.
Dan now works from his own studio and is exhibiting and selling work around the country…

Steventon, Brian
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View 'Bs6 Evening Light Afon Gwaur Estuary'

Brian Steventon . RBSA . MBA. BA Hons
Brian explains “I am inspired by the abstract element within the subject, very often atmospheric and light conditions enhance the abstract quality that I am seeking…

Stringer, Jonathan
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View 'Short Flight'

Jonathan graduated in 2009 from the BA (Hons) Artist Blacksmithing course at Hereford College of Arts.
Jonathan’s work consists of abstract outdoor sculptures and innovative indoor furnishings, manufactured through a blend of traditional Blacksmithing techniques and modern manufacturing processes such as water-jet and computer CNC laser cutting.

Sullivan, Frances
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Through a long-term passion for horses, Frances has gained a deep understanding of their Character and conformation, and in recognition of her expertise in this field, has recently been promoted to an Associate Member of the Society of Equestrian Artists (ASEA).

Summers, Emma
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View 'Es4 Sock'

Through the use of familiar objects including a bag, a food tin, baby clothes and a house my work explores known conventions in storytelling, literature and photography, as well as more experimental, theatrical concepts of performance and installation…

Swift, Dionne
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View 'Ds15 Devoré Velvet'

Dionne says

Using a mostly monochrome palette I investigate the world from unique and unusual angles. Photographing and drawing lost corners; finding intriguing compositions by viewing them from a different perspective.
Order gets disrupted and angles are skewed as I play with texture, techniques and processes to create a collection of abstract mixed media wall pieces…

Takahashi, Kyoko
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View 'Kt3 Blue Flat Form'

Kyoko is influenced in her work by forms found in the natural world. The shapes she creates are like eggs and seeds, which are created organically to protect life from the elements (air and water), or like pebbles which are shaped by those same elements, through the forces of erosion…

Talbot – Greaves, Paul
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View 'Between Showers - Patterdale Landscape'

Paul has specialised in painting watercolours for the last fifteen years and his inspiration is drawn from strong tones and contrast found within the landscape. An avid walker and mountaineer, he is constantly recording the effects of light and shade within his native British Isles…

Tatebayashi, Kaori
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View 'Kt16 Kurocha Plate'

KAORI TATEBAYASHI
Kaori grew up in a family who traded in pottery in Kyoto, Japan a city renowned for its ceramics. From a young age, then, she was surrounded by the simple, elegant forms of Japanese tableware. Following her studies in Kyoto and the RCA in London she has exhibited frequently in London and Japan…

Taylor, Jonathan
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View 'Jt33 River Severn'

Since becoming a professional artist in 1988, Jonathan has concentrated on trying to capture the impact light and weather can have on cityscapes and landscapes and the way they can transform a scene, using watercolours and pastels.
He is always keen to convey mood in his paintings and likes to use a full range of tones to create strong, atmospheric pictures.

Taylor, Sam
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View '39st Big Tumbler'

Sam has a pottery in Westhampton, Massachusetts. He makes woodfired stoneware pottery which is functional and decorative.
Sam makes everything on a Leach or treadle style wheel. He particularly likes to throw pots and then alter them, using a knife to cut facets or a paddle to change the form…

Thijs , Toon
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View '54 Tt11a Klein Vitalis 1'

Holland
Toon Thijs’s reputation is based on his remarkable designs and their underlying concepts. As well as his one-off pieces, he also makes limited series of unusual practical and decorative objects. The pots are austere in shape, with a great sense of detail and colour. They are made i n earthenware and fired electric to 1080º C.
Toon was born in Belgium…

Third, Moira
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View 'Mt12 Perfectly Still6   2/50'

“My current practice explores
the notion of perceived
reality. I am interested in
the multiple identities that
exist in things and how
folklore, religion and
superstition in conjunction
with social experience have
helped to form these.
Imagination and its ability to
transform the ordinary into
the extraordinary is of
primary concern to my work.”

Thom, Yo
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View 'Yt52 Plate'

Yo was born in Tokyo and after a degree in English Language in Japan she came over to Britain and started a 3D design course at the Kent Institute of Art and Design.
During her introductory course, she was hooked on ceramics and decided to take a BA in Ceramics. She also started assisting Lisa Hammond whilst at college and carried on as a full-time apprentice with her after obtaining an MA.

Trotman , Andrew
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View 'Unzipped Bench'

Combining a background in structural engineering and a passion for working with wood, Andrew’s designs explore structured and goemetric forms which interpret the landscape; and express characteristics of balance, stress, light and texture…

Tudball, Ruthanne
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View 'Rt30 109 Small Jar'

Manipulating soft clay on a revolving wheel and feeling the material respond to the merest touch is like setting out on an exciting journey for me. The dialogue that goes on between the maker and the clay is carried out through the use of the pots. You pour, you eat, you store, you serve and you drink from them, and sometimes you just contemplate them…

Underhill, Craig
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View 'Cu3 Red Field Landscape'

A predominant influence in this work is the landscape, but not a static landscape, instead a landscape in time; where things grow, the land moves, geological deposits are built up and most importantly where humankind has intervened and our repetitive, methodic actions have left lasting visual effects on the environment…

Veevers, Joanna
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View 'D! & D2  Rectangular Hands Brooch'

Joanna says
“A degree in textiles followed by an MA in ceramics at the RCA in 1985 reinforced a fascination with pattern and surface which permeates all my work whether it be ceramic slip cast tiles and panels, porcelain jewellery or mosaics.
Using a fine line scratched into plaster I lay down my imagery with slips in a sedimentary and modular way prior to casting…

Vlassopulos, Tina
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View 'Tv3 Turquoise Whorl'

Artist Statement:-
Tina is a studio potter based in London producing one off hand built ceramics.
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“The pots are all made with an eye to the possibility of function, although this is always balanced by the sculptural strengths of the forms. They are pots made contemplatively, for contemplation…

Volk, Patricia
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View 'Pv5 Blue Head And Shoulders'

Heads have become an obsession to me.
My work represents the search to create modern icons, whether flawed Heroes, outwardly noble and courageous but nevertheless a victim of sorts, or ambiguous Virgins, the symbol of perfection but also of female repression. Both of history and of now…

Wake , Cat
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View '46 Cw Large Open Pewter Vessel'

Cat creates decorative and functional vessels from pewter, which are hand-raised using traditional silversmithing techniques to create the organic qualities inherent throughout my work.

Her work is influenced by natural forms, including acorn cups and seedpods, which are reflected throughout her vessels…

Wale, Peter J
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View 'Worcester Friar Street'

Peter, born in Worcester is a versatile multi-media painter matching medium to subjects – the figure, portraits, boats, harbours, seascapes, caricatures and cartoons. He also likes the freedom and interesting effects of semi abstract painting. His connection with the ballet stems from his time as a pit musician playing for the shows…

Waller, Carole
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View 'Cw3 Figure - 2   Glass Panels'

Carole is an internationally renowned textile artist.
She makes painted clothes, and paintings on veils of cloth’ which become installations in three dimensional space.
Recently she has developed a way of working with glass to enclose the fragile fabric membrane in a tough monumental material…

Walter, Josie
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View 'Jw36 Jug'

Josie read anthropology and following graduation in 1972 taught social studies for three years. However by 1979 she had completed ceramic training at Chesterfield College of Art and set up a workshop and retail outlet in Derbyshire.
Josie’s distinctive functional pots have been a feature of the British studio pottery scene for over thirty years…

Walton, Gary
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View 'Boats And Lighthouse (1)'

Gary was born in Worcestershire in the early 60s where he lives with his wife and daughter.
He is a self taught artist who works in watercolour and pen using his vivid imagination to create a world of realistic fantasy.
His subjects range from individual businesses, aeroplanes, boats and cars to anything his mind takes a fancy to….

Walton, Sarah
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I have worked in saltglaze for more than 25 years. Landscape is a theme in my work. I have walked, drawn and painted it since childhood and this lies behind the evolution of my Birdbaths, made since 1984.
Bird Baths, Sculptural pieces, Tiles, mugs, beakers, plates and bowls, all in saltglaze, comprise my current range of work…

Ward, Camilla
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View 'Cw2 Ceramic Form'

My work is linked to painting.
I use the ceramic surface as a canvas for my response to a literal and abstract, personal landscape. I love the spontaneity and mark making quality of clay. I hope to make the work approachable and tactile, in opposition to the “hands-off” and precious association of fine ceramics. Hence, the tension of a matt exterior against the glazed interior. …

Wason, Jason
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David Whiting described Jason’s work as ‘making no concession to popular taste.
His deep investment in the clay is about his dialogue across the centuries, to civilisations where man made art for very functional purposes, and where he was in far more accord – in step – with the earth and its cycles…

Weight, Amanda
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View '25 Aw3 Still Life Sketch-'

Amanda’s work stems from a fascination with human nature and our ability to communicate without words.
She takes inspiration from the complexities of relationships and the qualities that make each of us individual, both physically and emotionally…

Wesselman, Frans
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View 'Fw35 Owl 26/75'

I grew up and studied photography and printmaking in Holland. In England I worked for many years as a painter and print maker.
One day, on a visit to Salisbury Cathedral, I was particularly struck by “The prisoners of conscience” window, painted by Gabriel Loire…

Westermann , Gilda
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View 'Gw6 Mug 2'

Gilda Westermann works in porcelain. She is known for the fine craftsmanship of her work and is recognised as one of the UK’s leading potters working with porcelain. The pots have a quality of throwing which is fluent, soft and creative…

Whapples, Sarah
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I am a glass & enamel artist & work from home in Solihull,
West Midlands.
I have been working with stained glass for the past 7 years & more recently with enamel for 3 years.
I relish in all forms of glass, therefore I enjoy using different mediums in my canvases & leaded panels…

Wheeldon, John
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View 'Jw4 Vessel'

The last few years have seen him return to using lustre, this time applied to a terra sigillata surface, raku fired and smoked. The combination of gold and smoked polished terra sigillata is irresistible – a rich sensuous surface.
He feels that above all he is a potter who responds primarily to materials and processes…

White, David
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View 'Construction In Blue'

After a career in teaching art in Midlands’ Schools, David White retired early and became a full-time artist in 1996.

David is an elected Member of The Easel Club, The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and The Birmingham Art Circle of which he is currently Vice-President.
Much of his recent work has used geometric man-made forms alongside organic qualities in landscape…

White, Jane Alison
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View 'Jw109 Egg Shaped Vessel'

As soon as I discovered the process of pit firing I knew that it was a way of working that I strongly identified with, and I felt that I had found my creative direction…

White, Steve
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View 'Blue Yacht With Five Fenders'

A Kandinsky exhibition in London provoked Steve into art. He reacted, as many people do when they see abstract art – ‘I could do that’. He became a big fan of the semi abstract style of artists such as David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Fernand Leger, Tom Wesselmann and Bob Kessel.
After ten years perfecting his art Steve stumbled across Reflexionism on a sailing holiday in Croatia….

White, Tom
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View 'Friar Street'

Inspired by the ordinary, my interest is in taking a snapshot of everyday urban
life and preserving the beauty of something that is often overlooked, using canvas and paint.

My paintings range from impressionistic to photo-realistic, the latter being the style selected for the show in Worcester, in order to most effectively translate that freeze-frame moment onto canvas…

Whittall, John
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View 'Pint Roses'

John is an established artist living in Wimbledon, London, with works in permanent collections in the National Portrait Gallery and Westminster Abbey.

Leaving art school I remember a tutor asking me what I planned to do, “Paint” I said and that’s been my life ever since…

Whittington, Gilly
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View '/ Gwh 2  Twist Vase'

Potter who specialises in thrown and hand built pieces using crater glazes

Wickham, Kate
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View 'Kw3 (5)  Three Candles'

“Originally from Yorkshire, I trained at Camberwell School of Art and the R.C.A., and now live and work in Sussex. I am the head of the Ceramics Diploma course at City Lit in London.
I make hand built vessel forms exploring a number of ideas and themes ??“ landscape, memories, symbols, people, meanings and associations beyond literal representation…

Wightman, Kathryn
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View 'Kw1  Eye Candy'

Kathryn blows hot glass! She is an award-winning artist, designer/maker of quality/quirky, funky/fresh, stylish/sassy handblown glass.
Her products include one off art pieces, functional objects created for an interior led market as well as a stunning range of glass ‘art for wearing’…

Wilhelm, Christiane
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View 'Cw17 Grey Vessel - Silver Leaf- Pot Of The Month - August 2010'

Since 1987, Christiane has lived and worked in Munich in her own studio. This is where her ceramic objects in stoneware and porcelain, vessels and sculptural work, are created.

Williams, Catherine
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View 'Winter Woodland'

Catherine studied Fine Art at the University of the West of England, graduating in 1997 when she received the Rebecca Smith Award for Printmaking. In 2001 she completed a Master’s degree in multi-disciplinary Printmaking also at UWE, and received a Printmakers council award in her final year of study.
Her inspiration primarily comes from the textural qualities of landscape…

Williams, Pierre
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View 'Ppw5 Seated Male Nude'

This new body of work has been inspired by many recent visits to Hereford Cathedral, which I have been rediscovering. The skills of the craftsmen who created this work of art and that are also being matched in the restoration work is something I try to replicate in my own work, all be it on a smaller scale…

Willis, Rod
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Rod’s is primarily conerned with capturing the effects of light and atmosphere. His watercolour work consists of delicate washes to convey an often ethereal effect, while his olil paintings, though more detailed display an eye sensitive to the changing landscape…

Wong, Sue
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View 'Sw3 New York Vase 1'

“My work is about the urban environment. I am taking objects and imagery that are present in the city and putting them into ceramic form.
I use slab hand building as my method to construct my forms.
The surfaces are treated with brightly coloured underglazes, transfers,glazes, oxides and mark making techniques.”

Wood, Gary
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View 'Gw6 Tea Bowl'

As a ceramics student in the eighties, I was fascinated by a statement from “The Unknown Craftsman” by Soetsu Yanagi :
“When you are doing your work, you and your work are two different things, but when you become the work and do the work, true work becomes possible”…

Wood, John
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View 'Jw6 Aboard Th E Pleasure Boat'

John Wood MCSD, FSAI, RBSA
John was born in Birmingham with a talent for art and an early apprenticeship in heavy engineering. His introduction to the arts as a profession began with Calligraphy, Heraldry and hand drawn lettering…

Wood, Rachel
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View 'Rw15  Bottle'

Rachel says
“I love to explore the rhythm and movement of throwing clay on a wheel, excited by the freshness and spontaneity of the results. My personal intuitive touch is an integral part of my pots. This is evident by a wet hand on a soft form fresh off the wheel, through to an individual hand or fingerprint emphasised by the glaze…

Woodhead, Steve
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Stev has been potting since 1980 and became a fellow of the Craft Potters Association in 1993.
Steve makes a range of hand thrown domestic stoneware. The great chefs on TV have created a move back to the kitchen to enjoy great food and have fun preparing it. His new range of classic domestic ware has been designed to embrace this new environment…

Wright , Hollie
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View '62 Hw8 Small Box With Drop Down Door 2'

Hollie is a designer and craftswoman who uses reclaimed wood and fittings to make quirky functional furniture. Her influences come from the allotment and smallholding lifestyle she grew up with in rural Oxfordshire.
Chickens have always been a central part to her daily life, and so have become the leading characters of her work…

Yasuda, Takeshi
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View '39 Ty02 Porcelain Bowl'

Takeshi Yasuda is one of the most celebrated potters working in Europe today. Born in Tokyo, he was apprenticed to the Daisei-Gama pottery in Mashiko between 1963-66, and established his first studio there. He settled in Britain in 1973, combining his creative work with teaching for Art Schools and Universities across the UK…

Yates , Alan
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View 'The Malverns- Hope End View Colwell'

Alan Yates BWS
Alan’s interest in watercolour painting was revived around 1990 when he enrolled in a Watercolour Painting course run by Ray Whitehouse, a landscape artist and article writer for Leisure Painter magazine…

Yates, Claire
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View 'Ready To Wash'

Claire is an artist and illustrator, working in enhanced watercolours, pastels and acrylics, with a solid background in art and design.
She is probably most renowned for her floral paintings that seem to capture a moment in time.
Her enchanting pet portraits have become a favourite with the artist and sought after by pet lovers at home and abroad…

The Gallery at Bevere, Worcester
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