Current Work

Hand-built decorated functional earthenware.

Work generally available from:
This is a list of galleries who from time to time stock my work. As much of my work is made for exhibitions and private commission, no gallery is guaranteed to have work in stock. Those which I supply more regularly are marked with a *.

Brook Street Gallery, Hay-on-Wye* 01497 821026;.
Primavera, Cambridge* 01223 357708
Cirencester Workshops 01285 657181; Contemporary Ceramics * 0207 4377605

Hitchcocks, Bath 01962 734762; Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh 0131 5571020
Mid-Cornwall Galleries, Par, Cornwall.
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Oxford Gallery 01865 242731
Simon Drew Gallery, Dartmouth* 01803 832832; Alpha House, Sherborne 01935 814944
Summer House,nr,San Francisco* 001 415 383 6695; Tufted Puffin, B.C.,Canada 001 250 537 9939
Terra Viva, Uzes, France* 0033 66 22 48 78

Other information:
Available for lectures, visiting lecturing, demonstrations and workshops

Technical Information

All work is handbuilt, using a variety of coiling, pinching, scraping and modelling techniques. Inlaid with black glaze, painted with underglaze colour, dipped in lead or leadfree glaze, fired to 1085 deg.C.

History

1957 - Born, London.
Sep 1976 - July 1977- Hertfordshire College of Art and Design. Arts foundation course.
Oct 1977-July 1980 - Bath Academy of Art, Corsham,Wilts. BA Hons 3D Design (Ceramics).
Oct 1980-March 1983 - Resident at Fosseway House Workshops,Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. Residential craftworkshops and gallery
Mar 1983 - Helped to set up new group workshop at Makers, Stroud, Glos.
Aug 1984-March 1985 - Part-time creative studies teacher for Shire Training Workshops YTS scheme.
Feb 1986 - Visiting lecturer, Sunderland Polytechnic
Jul 1986 - Elected member of Craft Potters Association.
Elected member of Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen (Presidents Prize Winner 1988).
May 1988 - CPA Summer Camp - guest demonstrator.
Jul 1989 - Moved to Chapel Road, Steeton, W.Yorks and set up new workshop.
May 1990 - Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award - Certificate of Merit (New Zealand)
May 1990 - Patrons of Pots seminar: demonstrator
Sep 1990 - CPA Top Class,Derby University: lecturer, demonstrator
Nov 1990 - Dacorum and Chiltern potters group: demonstrator
Jun 91 - Potterycrafts seminar: demonstrator
Oct 91 - June 92 - Course adviser and part-time lecturer: Bradford and Ilkley Community College (BTEC Ceramics)
Nov 1992 - Lecture (San Francisco) and exhibition: Summer House,California
May 1993 - Southern Potters Group: demonstator
Oct - Nov 1993 - Visiting lecturer: University of Derby
Feb 1994 Bradford and Ilkley Community College: lecture
Feb - March 1994 - Visiting lecturer: University of Derby
May 1994 - Swalmen Potters Market, Holland
Sep 1995 - Visiting lecturer: Forest of Dean College
Oct 1995 - Northern Potters exhibition: selector
Dec 1995 - CPA Christmas Potters Market
Jun 1996 - Birth of daughter Hester
Mar 1997 - Bradford Girls Grammar School: workshop
May 1998 - West Country Potters: demonstrator
Oct 1998 - Forest of Dean College: visiting lecturer
May 1999 - Yorkshire Arts Artists Support Grant (for exhibition at Terra Viva, France)
Feb 2000 - Move to Junction Workshop, Crosshills
Apr 2000 - Midland Potters 2000: demonstrator

Awards

1981 - Craft Council Setting Up grant
1984 - Craft Council workshop assistant training grant
1988 - Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen President's Prize
1990 - Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award: Certificate of Merit
1999 - Yorkshire Arts Artist Support scheme

Public Collections

Salisbury Art Gallery
Southampton Art Gallery
Cleveland Craft Centre
Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
Middlesborough Townley Hall, Burnley, Lancs
Pinchen Collection, City Museum and Art Gallery, Hanley, Stoke on-Trent

Publications

Sculptural Ceramics by Ian Gregory
Potters Directory of Shape and Form by Neal French
The Complete Potters Companion by Tony Birks
The Guardian Weekend: feature 14.12.96
Ceramic Review no 145, Jan 94 & Ceramic Review no 169, Jan 98
Coiling by Betty Blandino
Setting Up a Pottery Workshop by Alaistair Young
The Potters Guide to Ceramic Surfaces by Jo Connell
The Complete Practical Potter by Josie Warshaw
The Art of Handbuilt Ceramics by Susan Bruce
Animals in Clay by Michael Flynn
Pots in the Kitchen by Josie Walter

Selected Exhibitions

1981 - New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Hants; Chelsea Craft Fair, London
1982 - Prescote Gallery, Cropredy, Oxon; Chelsea Craft Fair; British Craft Centre, London.
1983 - Katherine House Gallery, Marlborough, Wilts; Chelsea Craft Fair
1984 - Falcon House Gallery, Boxford, Suffolk; Chelsea Craft Fair
1986 - Amalgam, Barnes, London; Simon Drew Gallery, Dartmouth, Devon
1986-1993 - Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen
1987 - Cecilia Colman Gallery, London; Laurimore Gallery (formerly Falcon House); CPA Gallery, London. New members show.
1988 - Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh.
1989 - Amalgam, Barnes, London
1990 - Contemporary Ceramics, the CPA Shop and Gallery; Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh.
1991 - Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh; Simon Drew Gallery, Dartmouth, Devon.
1992 - Amalgam, Barnes, London; Summer House, Mill Valley, San Francisco,USA
1993 - Oxford Gallery, Oxford.
1994 - Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh; CPA at V&A Museum, London.
1995 - Cecilia Colman Gallery, London; Terra Viva, St.Quentin la Poterie,Uzes, France; Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh.
1996 - Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield; Cleveland Craft Centre (touring exhibition)
1997 - Summer House, Mill Valley, California,USA: Mid Pennine Arts, Burnley, Lancs. (showcase)
1998 - Oxford Gallery, Oxford; Galerie du Don, France; Primavera, Cambridge; Yew Tree Gallery, Slad, Glos; Mid-Cornwall Gallery, Par, Cornwall.
1999 - Printemps des Potiers, Bandol, France; Galerie Terra Viva, France; Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh;
2000 - Simon Drew Gallery, Dartmouth*;
2002 - Contemporary Ceramics, London*; Brewery Arts, Cirencester, Glous;
2003 - Alpha House Gallery, "Top Twenty"
2004 - Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh*; Alpha House Gallery "Humour in Ceramics";
2004 - Rufford Craft Centre & touring Europe; "Pots in the Kitchen";
2004 - Woodbury Gallery, nr Exeter; Galerie Terra Viva, France*;
2004 - Shipley Gallery, Gateshead; Bothy Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield;