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I live in St Chloe, a small village in the Cotswolds. Potting has been a passion of mine since childhood. I recall my teacher and friend, Steve Sheridan, saying to me; "be careful to clean the clay from under your nails, or it'll get stuck there for ever...". It took me a few years to fully appreciate his meaning but I do now.
I make a range of functional cook and serve ware for the table and home. My work is high fired stoneware, using a small range of my own glazes derived from iron, copper and wood ash. I enjoy making simple enduring forms that have function and purpose and that can bring joy to daily routines of eating, drinking and sharing. I am a thrower, making all of my pots on a McMeekin momentum wheel. I make functional stoneware for the table, oven and sideboard with an emphasis on the ceremony of eating and drinking. My work is focused on creating beautiful, useable ceramics; Vessels, containers and forms that have a robust yet refined aesthetic. My work is high fired in gas reduction using a simple pallet of wood ash, white and tenmoku glazes often with expressive slip decoration. I work in South Gloucestershire where I have also established an open access ceramics makerspace; The Clay Loft adjacent to my studio. I trained under Steve Sheridan as a schoolboy at Bryanston School in Dorset. Careers in the Army and in business in the Middle and Far East have finally surrendered to the inexorable call to ceramics. |
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Photographs by Ben Boswell
I split my time between making my own work (to sell online, at shows and in galleries), and running to ceramics related ventures: The Clay Loft and Gallery 1673. Oh, and I make potter's tools and equipment too!!
The Clay Loft is a modern open access ceramics maker space. We offer studio membership, classes, workshops and masterclasses in a bid to build an ever stronger foundation of knowledge, love, skill and appreciation for this wonderful material and craft. The professional development of the members and studio users is augmented by the regular events and exhibitions held in Gallery 1673.
If you have never been, then please come and visit. If you have please don't keep it a secret!! Share the love and joy of clay!
The Clay Loft is a modern open access ceramics maker space. We offer studio membership, classes, workshops and masterclasses in a bid to build an ever stronger foundation of knowledge, love, skill and appreciation for this wonderful material and craft. The professional development of the members and studio users is augmented by the regular events and exhibitions held in Gallery 1673.
If you have never been, then please come and visit. If you have please don't keep it a secret!! Share the love and joy of clay!
