Archives Potters Profiles

Tim Thornton

Most of my pots are decorative or functional domestic pieces, though I am also doing increasing numbers of sculptural pieces. Many of my pieces have loose, organic forms and surfaces. I use the wheel and hand build, and fire in…

Anne Durbin

My work is slip cast porcelain. Some have inlayed pieces of coloured porcelain with other decoration incised at the leather hard stage, filled with coloured slip and scraped back before bisque firing. I sand down to get a smooth surface…

David Taylor

My work has ranged from explorations of classic domestic thrown forms to the sculptural interpretation of mythical creatures, with reference to cultural myths and legends. I am heavily influenced by eastern and African traditions and forms from typical pots to…

Dot & Geoff Crowe

Geoff works full time in Daventry, the throwing-with loud music-which varies with mood, is relaxation time!! Geoff’s ceramic vessels are all thrown; the clay seems to make up its own mind how it wants to shape itself.  Geoff loves working…

Elaine Hind

Elaine studied ceramics at Birmingham College of Art gaining an N.D.D. and A.T.D.  She was in charge of the 3D Design Department at the Bournville Centre, part of the University of Central England, but retired in 2005.  She has exhibited…

Bradley Spencer

My work starts with drawing. Through the physical act comes a greater understanding of what I have been looking at and it becomes part of me.  The completed surfaces of my work are the product of my desire to unite…

Giles Headley

I took up pottery (and woodturning) in 2013 as something creative to do, having worked in the gas industry for 20 years as a multidisciplinary design draughtsman and civil engineer. I joined an evening class at my former secondary school…

Geraldine Reaves

Recently I have been making my own moulds and working with porcelain slip, as well as using St.Thomas’s clay on the wheel.  I love the idea that my work will be used in an every day context, either in oven…