Celebrating Ceramics 2023

Celebrating Ceramics Festival is excited to be back this year. 

You can meet the makers and see their products, as well as enjoying the beautiful gardens at Waterperry.

Don't forget, you can also see a video overview of the show here.

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We hope that you will continue to show your support for the UK’s vibrantly creative craft sector and be ready to come and meet them at our future events.

Alphabetical Exhibitor Listing

Adela Powell Ceramics C055

Adela worked in electric fired, cone 8, stoneware. The work itself has a strong sculptural quality inspired by nature.

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Adrian Bates Ceramics A010

Timeless and elegant sculpture and sculptural ceramics for home and year-round garden display.

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Alchemy Tiles H127

Individually hand carved encaustic, inlaid tiles with inspiring poetry, quotes and images using ancient 13th Century techniques held eternally in earth and time.

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Alison Wear Ceramics B013

Hand-built, smoke fired sculptural pieces.

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Amanda Ray Raku Jewellery B016

Unique and contemporary raku jewellery inspired by Art Deco and the designs of the sixties. Made in St Ives, since 1993.

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Amanda-Sue Rope G111

Combining working at the wheel with hand-building Amanda-Sue creates constructed structural works evocative of architectural industrial forms.

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Andrew Niblett Raku Potter E096

Raku fired sculptural forms with recovered relics.

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Ania Perkowska Ceramics A012

Functional and decorative pieces inspired by contrasts and opposites. Minimum decoration, allowing for shapes and textures to take the lead.

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Anna Donovan B031

I use stoneware clay and porcelain to create figurative sculptures, vessels, and jewellery, often with the addition of other materials.

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Anna Phillips B014

A colourful exploration of form with angles juxtaposed with curves representing a vessel for the human soul.

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Anne-Marie Jacobs Ceramics B040

Coastal salt marsh landscape inspired sculptural ceramics. Slip cast white earthenware is hand finished and glazed with a vivid range of colours.

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Beverly Todd Ceramics B041

Wheel thrown porcelain domes depicting rural landscapes and tall botanical porcelain lamps, sgraffito’d.

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Birgit Pohl Ceramics B018

Wheel-thrown and hand-decorated porcelain pots, made with precision and conveying a love for early to mid-20th century European ceramics.

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Bridget Drakeford Porcelain D062

Hand thrown decorative porcelain with an Eastern influence.

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Candice Coetser Ceramics B030

Candice evokes distant landscapes with her crisp thrown porcelain and handbuilt stoneware vessels. Using brushed and etched glazes with a simple palette of greens, greys and whites. Calming clean lines yet showing depth and subtlety.

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Cath Criscenti Ceramics D080

I work to evoke the feeling and mood that the seasons create through my glazes. I make wheel thrown vessels and porcelain wall art.

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Charlie Collier Pottery C043

Stoneware domestic ware. Wood and gas fired. Traditional forms incorporating local clays and wood ashes.

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Charlotte Morrison D065

Handbuilt, decorative and functional porcelain. Inspired by the landscape and nature. Hand-painted decoration using underglazes and slips.

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Chiu-i Wu Ceramics A005

Hand built sculptural and functional stoneware. Coil and pinch built.

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Chloe Harford B025

Handmade raku fired animal sculpture, puffins, seals, penguins, hares and more.

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Chris Barnes Pottery D070

A range of functional stoneware decorated with a colourist sensibility - Strong on form and rich glazes. Hand built raku sculpture exploring animal form.

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Chris Hawkins B024

Handthrown studio ceramics, raku fired bottles, vases, lidded pots and bowls.

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Christophe Ceramics

Influenced by architecture, my work tends to be minimalist with great impact while telling a story and inviting a journey.

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Cisca Jane B038

Crystalline glazed porcelain wall art and decorative vessels.

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Claire Lardner Burke Ceramics C049

Individual hand-coiled forms capturing the quiet beauty, marks and colours of age and weathering, particularly of rocks and stone.

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Clare Palmer Ceramics H137

Both strands of Clare’s work – slab-built sculptures and wheel-thrown sculptural vessels – explore the veneers of control we show to the world.

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Clare Wakefield Ceramics H131

Pierced porcelain and earthstone, thrown and sculpted to echo the ebb and flow of the sea.

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Clay Evolution - Zelide Edge D083

Wheel thrown or slip cast vessels exploring rhythm; expressed using pattern and texture in the surface decoration.

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Craig Underhill A008 

Painterly slab built vessel forms that evoke a feeling of landscape and place.

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Daniel Boyle Ceramics E094

Salt and ash glazed stoneware, thrown pots with fluid and textured glazes. Pots to be explored beyond their surface

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David Hilton Tableware F105

Range of hand decorated and thrown tableware with matching cutlery in stoneware and porcelain.

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David William Sampson Ceramics B021

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

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David Wright Pottery A004

Coiled, wood-fired stoneware vessels and boxes, sometimes including wooden lids and other materials.

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Derek Harbinson Ceramics

Functional thrown stoneware and sculptural pieces that each have their own unique story attached.

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Di Luca Ceramics H132

Industrial designer and ceramist Denis Di Luca is the brainchild behind the eponymous studio specialising in raku ceramics and sculptures for contemporary interior decors.

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Diane Griffin Ceramics C053

Contemporary sculptures featuring contrasting textures of fine unglazed porcelain, rough organic glazes and metallic details.

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Dianne Cross Ceramics G114

Handbuilt vases, vessels, wallpieces and boxes evoking textures and colours of the seashore and coastline plus recent moorland hues work.

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Dix Ceramics C047

Wheel thrown and altered pots made for use with influences from utilitarian architecture and spirals in nature from fossils to ferns. Work is fired to 1300 degrees in a small kiln with soda fired surfaces created over coloured slips.

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Elaine King Ceramics C050

My handbuilt functional ceramics demonstrate my love of colour and form, mostly inspired by surface patterns found in nature.

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Elaine Wells C046

Contemporary pieces for everyday use, exploring the use of clay and reduction glazes.

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Ellen Rijsdorp Keramiek D073

Double hauled, upside down wheelthrown unique pieces. Stoneware decorated with slips and lustres.

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Ellul Ceramics G112

Unique handbuilt sculptures and wall pieces inspired by the natural world.

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Elly Wall Ceramics B033

Handbuilt vessel forms, looking at the idea of containment and the point at which something is deemed redundant.

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Emily Dennys B022

Handmade porcelain lamps, vases and wall panels featuring relief designs of leaves, flowers, thistles and grasses.

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Emily Gibbard Ceramics D064

Emily creates sculptural representations of the human form by manipulating and stacking vessels thrown on the potter’s wheel.

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Emily Stubbs D086

Hand built sculptural ceramic vessels, concerned with exploring the relationship between colour, form and texture.

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Fabs Ceramics

Most of my work is functional stoneware but now exploring also sculptural art.

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Fiona Booy Ceramics G125

Fiona’s sculptural and functional creations play with bold forms and geological processes, swirling with blended clays and colours.

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Fliss Rowbotham

Combining my skills as an impressionist oil painter with pottery I have a unique and bold style and my ceramics offer both function and art.

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Gilly Whittington Ceramics B028

Porcelain, thrown and sometimes altered. Inspired by abstract expressionist painters the coloured ash glazes are applied with spontaneous brush strokes which. Form and decoration are in harmony, giving a sense of energy and movement.

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Gin Durham Ceramics C048

The inspiration for Gin's ceramic sculptures stems from storytelling. She draws on an imagination shaped by treasured tales and imagery.

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Guy Routledge Ceramics C042

Hand-built ceramic sculptures and decorative plates based loosely around the figure and head. Some larger pieces are suitable for outside.

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Hannah Staniforth Ceramics D061

Contemporary slipware focusing on expressive mark making and texture using a mix of throwing and hand building techniques.

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Helen Baxter Ceramics

Wheel thrown functional and decorative pieces inspired by worldwide travel and my home in Kent.

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Helen Higgins G119

Characteristic sculptures influenced by childhood memories.

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Helen Rondell F102

Sculptural ‘naked’ raku fired pieces all hand-coiled or slab built, created over several days, steadily evolving into individual unique forms.

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HeyningWD Studio B026

HeyningWD Studio stands for the combined work in porcelain by Wied and Diederik Heyning. We make hand thrown white porcelain vessels and thin slab rolled translucent lighting objects decorated with soluble salt colours.

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Hiro B035

Functional ware and sculpture. Mostly hand build with rich textures, intricate and have narrative and spiritual aspect.

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Huw Ceramics D056

Sculptural and figurative forms using thrown and hand-built techniques finished with clay slips and virtuous slips. The pieces have evolved from interests in African sculpture, machines, mechanical forms, architecture and the quality of clay.

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J Bull Ceramics D057

Wheel thrown vessels and forms with colourful contrasting surfaces and textures.

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Jack Durling B034

Hand built ceramic sculpture inspired by the phenomena of the natural world with focus upon wildlife conservation and protection.

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Jaeeun Ceramics D081

My works are slip casting vases using porcelain and expression about the journey of way back home. A concept based on HTP (House-Tree-Person) widely used for art therapy.

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James Stead Ceramics

Glazed inlayed stoneware pottery.

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Jane Cairns F100

Hand built sculptural ceramics with a focus on surface.

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Jane Cox Ceramics D070

Slip decorated high fired earthenware. Jane Cox (MARCA,AWG,CPA Fellow) is known for her elegant shapes and surface pattern. New designs in black and white and blue and green speckle glazes inspired by the isle of Wight coast.

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Jane Sheppard D059

Large scale coiled and smokefired vessels.

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Janet Halligan Ceramics F108

Trompe l'oeil sculptures featuring bags and shoes, hand built vessels, mainly teapots and jugs and abstract sculpture inspired by landscape and the built environment in stoneware.

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Jaroslav Hrustalenko B032

Geometrically stylized vessels, inspired by music and dance, often displayed in pairs to emphasize individual character of each gendered piece.

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Jason Braham F101

Stoneware pottery, in salt and ash glazes, principally for food and drink, but including pieces for display.

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Jayne Tricker Art B023

Beautiful hand-built gilded bowls of light, barrel-fired at key energetic dates in the calendar year.

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JCJ Pottery D072

Reduction fired porcelain lustre, brush decorated.

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Jean Tolkovsky Ceramics H134

Figurative, often toy-like creations, mainly inspired by childhood and fairy tales, evoke a sense of nostalgia and invite interpretation.

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Jemma Gowland B029

Expressive and detailed porcelain figures exploring upbringing and attitude, using cast doll faces, fired dressmaker’s pins and mixed media.

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Jenny Chan A011

Figurative tabletop and wall hung sculptures each with their own story.

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Jeremy Nichols Ceramics F106

Salt glazed domestic ceramics with a focus on teapots featuring open handles together with bottles and lidded jars and boxes.

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Jessica Jordan Ceramics B015

Hand built ceramic sculpture inspired by the phenomena of the natural world with themes of conservation and animal behaviour.

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Jillian Riley D074

A porcelain and parian clay apothecary with illustrations, text and sculptural elements weaving tales of mystery and ancient landscapes.

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Jim Malone D068

Stoneware and sometimes porcelain.

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John West Lansdown Pottery F110

Soda glazed, wood fired functional ware made for the home with care, to be loved.

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Jon Barrett-Danes A001

Jon creates individually made ceramic animal-based sculptures which are full of character and humour.

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Jonathan Cox Ceramics A003

Hand-built vases, bowls and chargers with floral and abstract designs fired in reduction to create iridescent and lustrous effects.

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Joy Trpkovic Ceramics B019

Mainly porcelain, inspired by marine creatures or fungi, my hand-built works celebrate risky fragility and translucency.

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Judit Esztergomi Ceramics D058

Wheel-thrown and hand carved tableware and functional ceramics.

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Julie O'Sullivan G117

Julie presents a body of work shaped by living alongside the Thames Estuary. Hand-built stoneware celebrating the tactile.

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Juliet Walters D084

My work is a balance of contrasting textures and forms using a variety of different techniques to achieve a coherent body of work.

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Kat Wheeler Ceramics C054

Wheel thrown functional and decorative ceramics that has been decorated with slips and fired high.

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Kate Windibank F104

Hand-built, sculptural, vessels with undulating edges, fault lines and fissures, inspired by the organic forms and textures of nature.

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Katherine Kingdon H136

Caught mid action, Katherine’s figures and surface illustrations have a quality which draws you in and captures your imagination.

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Kathryn Stevens D085

Sculptural forms for inside and outside your home, inspired by the natural and industrial landscape of Cumbria.

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Katie Braida Ceramics D082

Hand built earthenware sculptural vessels and forms

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Katy O'Neil D063

Slab built stoneware vases, wall plaques and bowls created from black clay alongside a range of complimentary ceramic jewellery.

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Knighton Mill Pottery A006

Contemporary country pottery focused on form, function, and surface.

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Kyra Mihailovic Ceramics F109

Distinctive wheel thrown and hand-painted porcelain and stoneware exploring form, colour and pattern, creating a strong visual impact.

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Legacy Craft Pottery

Agateware functional pots and sculptural candle ware made from black and white porcelain.

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Leigh Pottery G115

Leighan's work has a simple aesthetic that focuses on functionality and form with textures inspired by natural elements. Contemporary, modest, elegant, tactile and functional.

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Leonie Rutter Art C052

Leonie specialises in naked clay and alternative firing techniques including raku and smoke firing.

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Lesley Nason D075

Hand built porcelain wall art, vessels and jewellery inspired by the beauty and wildlife of the British countryside.

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Libby Daniels B017

Colourful decorative and functional vessels with a focus on surface pattern inspired by birds, plants, fish, pebbles and coastal themes.

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Liz Watts B027

Hand built Sculptures, vessels or combinations, primarily in porcelain, freehand painted, often colourfully, some with gold, platinum or lustre fired on the glaze. Each piece unique in form and colour.

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Loïs Gunn

Colourful and fun homewares including vases, clocks, wall decorations, plagues and mugs inspired by ancient civilisations and nature.

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Lucy Baxendale B039

Whimsical porcelain sculptures and unusual homeware inspired by imaginary worlds.

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Marie Prett Ceramics A009

Animals and figures inspired by the circus, myths and a vivid imagination.

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Mark Dally Ceramics H138

Slip trailed and brush decorated, Black and White Earthenware. Functional tableware and funky sculptural work with platinum and gold lustres.

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Mark Smith Ceramics D067

Fantastical maritime sculptures made from ceramics and recycled materials

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Meg Durham Art D077

Figurative ceramic sculptures and wall hangings made from stoneware and parian clays finished with oxides and lustre.

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Micaela Schoop E089

Micaela's ceramics combine organic forms with elaborately hand-painted surface design, fusing ethnological patterns and historical ceramic traditions with text.

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Miche Follano Ceramic Art B020

Using lithography, slips, stains and oxides, a painterly approach creates rich, visceral and personally expressive individual forms using traditional techniques.

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Michelle Young-Hares Ceramics E087

Large and small ceramic sculpture inspired by plant forms. Stoneware oxidation.

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Neil MacDonell E092

My work is inspired by textures, patterns and forms derived from found industrial detritus.

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Oknytt Ceramics H133

Hanna Salomonsson’s ceramics explore the juxtaposition between the wild landscapes of her native Sweden and her now urban London home.

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Olley Pottery D066

Simon Olley is a potter and ceramic artist who is fascinated by the relationship between man and man’s best friend.

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Patricia Millar Ceramics E088

Pottery that captures the ancestry, texture and colour signature of the landscape using local clay and ash glaze.

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Patrick O’Donohue Ceramics B037

Wheel-thrown and hand-built pottery. Contemporary designs that are uniquely and expressively hand-painted to explore perceptions of landscape.

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Paul Taylor Ceramics D079

Slab built terracotta vessels with coloured slip decoration. Ration.

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Paul Wearing Ceramics E095

Handbuilt stoneware sculptural vessels rendered with multiple brushed layers of oxidised slips and glazes to attain depth and texture.

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Paul-James Ceramics A002

My work focusses on the simplicity of the raw materials revealing the natural textures and beauty of the clay itself.

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Penny Withers Ceramics G121

The inspiration behind my thrown and altered, stoneware glazed vessels is the connection between ceramics and natural landscapes.

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Peter Beard Studio Ltd E098

One off vessels and sculpture in stoneware.

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Peter Black Ceramics H128

Salt glazed porcelain and stoneware, finished on the wheel, sometimes altered and assembled, including functional and one-off decorative pieces.

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Peter Hayes Ceramics A007

By building up layers of textured clay combined with burnishing and polishing of surfaces, I try to achieve opposites of rough and smooth.

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Phil Jolley C044

Architectural and archaeological influenced stoneware forms. Sections of printed and relief decoration with oxides, slip, lustre and glaze used to enhance contrasts.

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Pots From Scots

Coming soon...

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Rachel Foxwell D078

Slab built vessels with applied ceramic slips which capture the essence of the landscape through abstract studies of colour and light.

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Rachel Peters Ceramics H139

Hand-built vessels and sculptures exploring the harmony of natural soft forms, biomorphic rounded shapes and calm colour.

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Rachel Wood Ceramics G116

Thrown and altered sculpture vessels, stoneware, rich in glaze and texture.

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Ralph Jandrell Pottery H135

Nature inspired art pottery including table lamps, chargers and mugs..

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Rebecca Norris Designs

Quirky, colourful and loveable handmade pottery that will hopefully put a smile on your face.

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Richard Baxter H124

Finely thrown porcelain in a variety of beautiful and colourful glazes all developed by me for their particular qualities.

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Richard Wilson Ceramics E090

My pots reflect the spontaneity of the slipware tradition of decoration, with coloured clays on semi-dry pots.

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Roger Cockram Ceramics G120

Individual work thrown in fine porcelain, inspired by the sea - also a small range of domestic stoneware.

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Roynon Ceramics 

A range of hand thrown and digitally designed then slip cast pieces finished with a range of high flow glazes.

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Ruth Gibson Ceramics H130

Landscape inspired; a distinctive range of screen-printed and glazed porcelain bowls, sculptures and wall art. Including a range of complimentary porcelain jewellery.

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Sally Dorrity F107

Hand built small, medium and large stoneware pieces, both functional and sculptural, equally suitable for indoors and outside.

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Sally MacDonell E093

Modelling spontaneously with slabs and coils, each piece is unique, expressing an underlying sense of warmth and humanity.

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Sarah Michael Ceramics C045

Hand thrown sculptural ceramic objects for home and garden. Fun and colourful but also intended to be thought provoking!

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Sarah Villeneau Ceramics H129

High-fired handbuilt ceramic sculpture that celebrates the expressive and tactile qualities of clay through biomorphic form and texture.

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Sarah Went Ceramics D060

Wheel thrown porcelain domestic ware, slip decorated with textural accents. Collections interplay with colour and pattern.

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Sharon Griffin E091

Highly expressive hand-built figurative sculpture inspired by human experiences and connections with the land.

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Simon Griffiths Sculpture F099

Unique impressionistic wildlife sculptures, stoneware ceramic birds and animals suitable for garden or interior display.

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Sonya Ceramic Art H126

Sculptural vases and functional bowls inspired by the beauty and healing power of nature, informed by the Fibonacci sequence.

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Steve Woodhead Ceramics E86

I make a range of funky and traditional pieces in stoneware, which I describe as - "Art for Everyday Living".

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Sue Mundy G113

Hand-built sculptural forms and vessels in stoneware.

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Terry Nason Ceramics D076

Thrown functional carved and textured stoneware with multi-coloured glazes inspired by the rugged landscape of the Peak District.

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Tessa Wolfe Murray Ceramics F103

Slab built and slipcast vessels in white earthenware with stone impressions and textures, incised lines, slips, glazes and a controlled smoke-firing.

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Timothy Copsey D071

Described as beautifully ugly - I hope the work is playful, sometimes jarring; surprising, delightful and ultimately resonant of their materiality and the landscape from which they derive.

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TKJ Ceramics Ltd E097

Tom makes functional pottery for the table, sideboard and oven that is inspired by African and Eastern Traditions.

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Tony Laverick Ceramics G118

Porcelain vessels form a canvas for an abstract collage of colour and texture.

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Trevor Dyer Ceramics B036

Trevor specialises in hand-thrown reduction-fired decorative and functional items produced in stoneware at his Studio based in Godmanchester, Cambs.

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Virginia Graham H123

Functional slab built pieces including mugs, jugs and teapots and vases. Decorated with painted slips and floral transfer prints.

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Wendy Lawrence Ceramics G122

Sculptural ceramics inspired by natural form and texture, for display in the home and garden.

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Woburn Sands Clay H140

Handmade ceramics with a distinctive Art Deco influence, including raku and crystalline glazed pieces. Raku demonstrations.

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