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.
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Adela worked in electric fired, cone 8, stoneware. The work itself has a strong sculptural quality inspired by nature.
Timeless and elegant sculpture and sculptural ceramics for home and year-round garden display.
Individually hand carved encaustic, inlaid tiles with inspiring poetry, quotes and images using ancient 13th Century techniques held eternally in earth and time.
Unique and contemporary raku jewellery inspired by Art Deco and the designs of the sixties. Made in St Ives, since 1993.
Combining working at the wheel with hand-building Amanda-Sue creates constructed structural works evocative of architectural industrial forms.
Raku fired sculptural forms with recovered relics.
Functional and decorative pieces inspired by contrasts and opposites. Minimum decoration, allowing for shapes and textures to take the lead.
I use stoneware clay and porcelain to create figurative sculptures, vessels, and jewellery, often with the addition of other materials.
A colourful exploration of form with angles juxtaposed with curves representing a vessel for the human soul.
Coastal salt marsh landscape inspired sculptural ceramics. Slip cast white earthenware is hand finished and glazed with a vivid range of colours.
Wheel thrown porcelain domes depicting rural landscapes and tall botanical porcelain lamps, sgraffito’d.
Wheel-thrown and hand-decorated porcelain pots, made with precision and conveying a love for early to mid-20th century European ceramics.
Hand thrown decorative porcelain with an Eastern influence.
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.
I work to evoke the feeling and mood that the seasons create through my glazes. I make wheel thrown vessels and porcelain wall art.
Stoneware domestic ware. Wood and gas fired. Traditional forms incorporating local clays and wood ashes.
Handbuilt, decorative and functional porcelain. Inspired by the landscape and nature. Hand-painted decoration using underglazes and slips.
Hand built sculptural and functional stoneware. Coil and pinch built.
Handmade raku fired animal sculpture, puffins, seals, penguins, hares and more.
A range of functional stoneware decorated with a colourist sensibility - Strong on form and rich glazes. Hand built raku sculpture exploring animal form.
Handthrown studio ceramics, raku fired bottles, vases, lidded pots and bowls.
Influenced by architecture, my work tends to be minimalist with great impact while telling a story and inviting a journey.
Individual hand-coiled forms capturing the quiet beauty, marks and colours of age and weathering, particularly of rocks and stone.
Both strands of Clare’s work – slab-built sculptures and wheel-thrown sculptural vessels – explore the veneers of control we show to the world.
Pierced porcelain and earthstone, thrown and sculpted to echo the ebb and flow of the sea.
Wheel thrown or slip cast vessels exploring rhythm; expressed using pattern and texture in the surface decoration.
Painterly slab built vessel forms that evoke a feeling of landscape and place.
Salt and ash glazed stoneware, thrown pots with fluid and textured glazes. Pots to be explored beyond their surface
Range of hand decorated and thrown tableware with matching cutlery in stoneware and porcelain.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Coiled, wood-fired stoneware vessels and boxes, sometimes including wooden lids and other materials.
Functional thrown stoneware and sculptural pieces that each have their own unique story attached.
Industrial designer and ceramist Denis Di Luca is the brainchild behind the eponymous studio specialising in raku ceramics and sculptures for contemporary interior decors.
Contemporary sculptures featuring contrasting textures of fine unglazed porcelain, rough organic glazes and metallic details.
Handbuilt vases, vessels, wallpieces and boxes evoking textures and colours of the seashore and coastline plus recent moorland hues work.
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.
My handbuilt functional ceramics demonstrate my love of colour and form, mostly inspired by surface patterns found in nature.
Contemporary pieces for everyday use, exploring the use of clay and reduction glazes.
Double hauled, upside down wheelthrown unique pieces. Stoneware decorated with slips and lustres.
Unique handbuilt sculptures and wall pieces inspired by the natural world.
Handbuilt vessel forms, looking at the idea of containment and the point at which something is deemed redundant.
Handmade porcelain lamps, vases and wall panels featuring relief designs of leaves, flowers, thistles and grasses.
Emily creates sculptural representations of the human form by manipulating and stacking vessels thrown on the potter’s wheel.
Hand built sculptural ceramic vessels, concerned with exploring the relationship between colour, form and texture.
Most of my work is functional stoneware but now exploring also sculptural art.
Fiona’s sculptural and functional creations play with bold forms and geological processes, swirling with blended clays and colours.
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.
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.
The inspiration for Gin's ceramic sculptures stems from storytelling. She draws on an imagination shaped by treasured tales and imagery.
Hand-built ceramic sculptures and decorative plates based loosely around the figure and head. Some larger pieces are suitable for outside.
Contemporary slipware focusing on expressive mark making and texture using a mix of throwing and hand building techniques.
Wheel thrown functional and decorative pieces inspired by worldwide travel and my home in Kent.
Sculptural ‘naked’ raku fired pieces all hand-coiled or slab built, created over several days, steadily evolving into individual unique forms.
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.
Functional ware and sculpture. Mostly hand build with rich textures, intricate and have narrative and spiritual aspect.
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.
Wheel thrown vessels and forms with colourful contrasting surfaces and textures.
Hand built ceramic sculpture inspired by the phenomena of the natural world with focus upon wildlife conservation and protection.
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.
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.
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.
Geometrically stylized vessels, inspired by music and dance, often displayed in pairs to emphasize individual character of each gendered piece.
Stoneware pottery, in salt and ash glazes, principally for food and drink, but including pieces for display.
Beautiful hand-built gilded bowls of light, barrel-fired at key energetic dates in the calendar year.
Figurative, often toy-like creations, mainly inspired by childhood and fairy tales, evoke a sense of nostalgia and invite interpretation.
Expressive and detailed porcelain figures exploring upbringing and attitude, using cast doll faces, fired dressmaker’s pins and mixed media.
Figurative tabletop and wall hung sculptures each with their own story.
Salt glazed domestic ceramics with a focus on teapots featuring open handles together with bottles and lidded jars and boxes.
Hand built ceramic sculpture inspired by the phenomena of the natural world with themes of conservation and animal behaviour.
A porcelain and parian clay apothecary with illustrations, text and sculptural elements weaving tales of mystery and ancient landscapes.
Soda glazed, wood fired functional ware made for the home with care, to be loved.
Jon creates individually made ceramic animal-based sculptures which are full of character and humour.
Hand-built vases, bowls and chargers with floral and abstract designs fired in reduction to create iridescent and lustrous effects.
Mainly porcelain, inspired by marine creatures or fungi, my hand-built works celebrate risky fragility and translucency.
Wheel-thrown and hand carved tableware and functional ceramics.
Julie presents a body of work shaped by living alongside the Thames Estuary. Hand-built stoneware celebrating the tactile.
My work is a balance of contrasting textures and forms using a variety of different techniques to achieve a coherent body of work.
Wheel thrown functional and decorative ceramics that has been decorated with slips and fired high.
Hand-built, sculptural, vessels with undulating edges, fault lines and fissures, inspired by the organic forms and textures of nature.
Caught mid action, Katherine’s figures and surface illustrations have a quality which draws you in and captures your imagination.
Sculptural forms for inside and outside your home, inspired by the natural and industrial landscape of Cumbria.
Slab built stoneware vases, wall plaques and bowls created from black clay alongside a range of complimentary ceramic jewellery.
Contemporary country pottery focused on form, function, and surface.
Distinctive wheel thrown and hand-painted porcelain and stoneware exploring form, colour and pattern, creating a strong visual impact.
Agateware functional pots and sculptural candle ware made from black and white porcelain.
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.
Leonie specialises in naked clay and alternative firing techniques including raku and smoke firing.
Hand built porcelain wall art, vessels and jewellery inspired by the beauty and wildlife of the British countryside.
Colourful decorative and functional vessels with a focus on surface pattern inspired by birds, plants, fish, pebbles and coastal themes.
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.
Colourful and fun homewares including vases, clocks, wall decorations, plagues and mugs inspired by ancient civilisations and nature.
Whimsical porcelain sculptures and unusual homeware inspired by imaginary worlds.
Animals and figures inspired by the circus, myths and a vivid imagination.
Slip trailed and brush decorated, Black and White Earthenware. Functional tableware and funky sculptural work with platinum and gold lustres.
Fantastical maritime sculptures made from ceramics and recycled materials
Figurative ceramic sculptures and wall hangings made from stoneware and parian clays finished with oxides and lustre.
Micaela's ceramics combine organic forms with elaborately hand-painted surface design, fusing ethnological patterns and historical ceramic traditions with text.
Using lithography, slips, stains and oxides, a painterly approach creates rich, visceral and personally expressive individual forms using traditional techniques.
Large and small ceramic sculpture inspired by plant forms. Stoneware oxidation.
My work is inspired by textures, patterns and forms derived from found industrial detritus.
Hanna Salomonsson’s ceramics explore the juxtaposition between the wild landscapes of her native Sweden and her now urban London home.
Simon Olley is a potter and ceramic artist who is fascinated by the relationship between man and man’s best friend.
Pottery that captures the ancestry, texture and colour signature of the landscape using local clay and ash glaze.
Wheel-thrown and hand-built pottery. Contemporary designs that are uniquely and expressively hand-painted to explore perceptions of landscape.
Slab built terracotta vessels with coloured slip decoration. Ration.
Handbuilt stoneware sculptural vessels rendered with multiple brushed layers of oxidised slips and glazes to attain depth and texture.
My work focusses on the simplicity of the raw materials revealing the natural textures and beauty of the clay itself.
The inspiration behind my thrown and altered, stoneware glazed vessels is the connection between ceramics and natural landscapes.
Salt glazed porcelain and stoneware, finished on the wheel, sometimes altered and assembled, including functional and one-off decorative pieces.
By building up layers of textured clay combined with burnishing and polishing of surfaces, I try to achieve opposites of rough and smooth.
Architectural and archaeological influenced stoneware forms. Sections of printed and relief decoration with oxides, slip, lustre and glaze used to enhance contrasts.
Slab built vessels with applied ceramic slips which capture the essence of the landscape through abstract studies of colour and light.
Hand-built vessels and sculptures exploring the harmony of natural soft forms, biomorphic rounded shapes and calm colour.
Thrown and altered sculpture vessels, stoneware, rich in glaze and texture.
Nature inspired art pottery including table lamps, chargers and mugs..
Quirky, colourful and loveable handmade pottery that will hopefully put a smile on your face.
Finely thrown porcelain in a variety of beautiful and colourful glazes all developed by me for their particular qualities.
My pots reflect the spontaneity of the slipware tradition of decoration, with coloured clays on semi-dry pots.
Individual work thrown in fine porcelain, inspired by the sea - also a small range of domestic stoneware.
A range of hand thrown and digitally designed then slip cast pieces finished with a range of high flow glazes.
Landscape inspired; a distinctive range of screen-printed and glazed porcelain bowls, sculptures and wall art. Including a range of complimentary porcelain jewellery.
Hand built small, medium and large stoneware pieces, both functional and sculptural, equally suitable for indoors and outside.
Modelling spontaneously with slabs and coils, each piece is unique, expressing an underlying sense of warmth and humanity.
Hand thrown sculptural ceramic objects for home and garden. Fun and colourful but also intended to be thought provoking!
High-fired handbuilt ceramic sculpture that celebrates the expressive and tactile qualities of clay through biomorphic form and texture.
Wheel thrown porcelain domestic ware, slip decorated with textural accents. Collections interplay with colour and pattern.
Highly expressive hand-built figurative sculpture inspired by human experiences and connections with the land.
Unique impressionistic wildlife sculptures, stoneware ceramic birds and animals suitable for garden or interior display.
Sculptural vases and functional bowls inspired by the beauty and healing power of nature, informed by the Fibonacci sequence.
I make a range of funky and traditional pieces in stoneware, which I describe as - "Art for Everyday Living".
Thrown functional carved and textured stoneware with multi-coloured glazes inspired by the rugged landscape of the Peak District.
Slab built and slipcast vessels in white earthenware with stone impressions and textures, incised lines, slips, glazes and a controlled smoke-firing.
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.
Tom makes functional pottery for the table, sideboard and oven that is inspired by African and Eastern Traditions.
Porcelain vessels form a canvas for an abstract collage of colour and texture.
Trevor specialises in hand-thrown reduction-fired decorative and functional items produced in stoneware at his Studio based in Godmanchester, Cambs.
Functional slab built pieces including mugs, jugs and teapots and vases. Decorated with painted slips and floral transfer prints.
Sculptural ceramics inspired by natural form and texture, for display in the home and garden.
Handmade ceramics with a distinctive Art Deco influence, including raku and crystalline glazed pieces. Raku demonstrations.
Stand |
Exhibitor |
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A001 |
Jon Barrett-Danes |
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A002 |
Paul-James Ceramics |
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A003 |
Jonathan Cox Ceramics |
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A004 |
David Wright Pottery |
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A005 |
Chiu-i Wu Ceramics |
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A006 |
Knighton Mill Pottery |
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A007 |
Peter Hayes Sculpture |
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A008 |
Craig Underhill |
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A009 |
Marie Prett Ceramics |
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A010 |
Adrian Bates Ceramics |
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A011 |
Jenny Chan |
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A012 |
Ania Perkowska Ceramics |
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B013 |
Alison Wear Ceramics |
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B014 |
Anna Phillips |
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B015 |
Jessica Jordan Ceramics |
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B016 |
Amanda Ray Raku Jewellery |
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B017 |
Libby Daniels |
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B018 |
Birgit Pohl Ceramics |
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B019 |
Joy Trpkovic Ceramics |
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B020 |
Miche Follano Ceramic Art |
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B021 |
David William Sampson Ceramics |
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B022 |
Emily Dennys Ceramics |
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B023 |
Jayne Tricker Art |
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B024 |
Chris Hawkins |
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B025 |
Chloe Harford |
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B026 |
HeyningWD Studio |
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B027 |
Liz Watts |
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B028 |
Gilly Whittington Ceramics |
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B029 |
Jemma Gowland |
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B030 |
Candice Coetser Ceramics |
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B031 |
Anna Donovan |
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B032 |
Jaroslav Hrustalenko |
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B033 |
Elly Wall Ceramics |
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B034 |
Jack Durling |
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B035 |
Hiro |
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B036 |
Trevor Dyer Ceramics |
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B037 |
Patrick O’Donohue Ceramics |
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B038 |
Cisca Jane |
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B039 |
Lucy Baxendale |
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B040 |
Anne-Marie Jacobs Ceramics |
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B041 |
Beverly Todd Ceramics |
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C042 |
Guy Routledge Ceramics |
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C043 |
Charlie Collier Pottery |
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C044 |
Phil Jolley |
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C045 |
Sarah Michael Ceramics |
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C046 |
Elaine Wells |
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C047 |
Dix Ceramics |
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C048 |
Gin Durham Ceramics |
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C049 |
Claire Lardner Burke Ceramics |
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C050 |
Elaine King Ceramics |
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C051 |
Virginia Graham |
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C052 |
Leonie Rutter Art |
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C053 |
Diane Griffin Ceramics |
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C054 |
Kat Wheeler Ceramics |
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C055 |
Adela Powell Ceramics |
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D056 |
Huw Ceramics |
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D057 |
J Bull Ceramics |
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D058 |
Judit Esztergomi Ceramics |
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D059 |
Jane Sheppard |
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D060 |
Sarah Went Ceramics |
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D061 |
Hannah Staniforth Ceramics |
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D062 |
Bridget Drakeford Porcelain |
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D063 |
Katy O'Neil |
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D064 |
Emily Gibbard Ceramics |
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D065 |
Charlotte Morrison |
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D066 |
Olley Pottery |
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D067 |
Mark Smith Ceramics |
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D068 |
Jim Malone |
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D069 |
Chris Barnes Pottery |
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D070 |
Jane Cox Ceramics |
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D071 |
Timothy Copsey |
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D072 |
JCJ Pottery |
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D073 |
Ellen Rijsdorp Keramiek |
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D074 |
Jillian Riley Designs |
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D075 |
Lesley Nason Ceramics |
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D076 |
Terry Nason Ceramics |
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D077 |
Meg Durham Art |
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D078 |
Rachel Foxwell |
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D079 |
Paul Taylor Ceramics |
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D080 |
Cath Criscenti Ceramics |
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D081 |
Jaeeun Ceramics |
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D082 |
Katie Braida Ceramics |
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D083 |
Clay Evolution - Zelide Edge |
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D084 |
Juliet Walters |
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D085 |
Kathryn Stevens |
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D086 |
Emily Stubbs |
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E087 |
Michelle Young-Hares Ceramics |
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E088 |
Patricia Millar Ceramics |
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E089 |
Micaela Schoop |
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E090 |
Richard Wilson Ceramics |
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E091 |
Sharon Griffin |
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E092 |
Neil MacDonell |
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E093 |
Sally MacDonell |
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E094 |
Daniel Boyle Ceramics |
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E095 |
Paul Wearing Ceramics |
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E096 |
Andrew Niblett Raku Potter |
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E097 |
TKJ Ceramics Ltd |
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E098 |
Peter Beard Studio Ltd |
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F099 |
Simon Griffiths Sculpture |
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F100 |
Jane Cairns |
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F101 |
Jason Braham |
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F102 |
Helen Rondell |
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F103 |
Tessa Wolfe Murray Ceramics |
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F104 |
Kate Windibank |
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F105 |
David Hilton Tableware |
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F106 |
Jeremy Nichols Ceramics |
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F107 |
Sally Dorrity |
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F108 |
Janet Halligan Ceramics |
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F109 |
Kyra Mihailovic Ceramics |
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F110 |
John West Lansdown Pottery |
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G111 |
Amanda-Sue Rope |
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G112 |
Ellul Ceramics |
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G113 |
Sue Mundy |
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G114 |
Dianne Cross Ceramics |
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G115 |
Leigh Pottery |
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G116 |
Rachel Wood Ceramics |
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G117 |
Julie O'Sullivan |
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G118 |
Tony Laverick Ceramics |
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G119 |
Helen Higgins Ceramics |
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G120 |
Roger Cockram Ceramics |
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G121 |
Penny Withers Ceramics |
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G122 |
Wendy Lawrence Ceramics |
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G123 |
Steve Woodhead Ceramics |
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H124 |
Richard Baxter |
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H125 |
Fiona Booy Ceramics |
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H126 |
Sonya Ceramic Art |
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H127 |
Alchemy Tiles |
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H128 |
Peter Black Ceramics |
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H129 |
Sarah Villeneau Ceramics |
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H130 |
Ruth Gibson Ceramics |
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H131 |
Clare Wakefield Ceramics |
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H132 |
Di Luca Ceramics |
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H133 |
Oknytt Ceramics |
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H134 |
Jean Tolkovsky Ceramics |
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H135 |
Ralph Jandrell Pottery |
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H136 |
Katherine Kingdon |
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H137 |
Clare Palmer Ceramics |
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H138 |
Mark Dally Ceramics |
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H139 |
Rachel Peters Ceramics |
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H140 |
Woburn Sands Clay |
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I 01 |
Fliss Rowbotham |
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I 02 |
James Stead Ceramics |
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I 03 |
Rebecca Norris Designs |
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I 04 |
Derek Harbinson Ceramics |
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I 05 |
Helen Baxter Ceramics |
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I 06 |
Loïs Gunn |
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I 07 |
Christophe Ceramics |
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I 08 |
Legacy Craft Pottery |
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I 09 |
Pots From Scots |
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I 10 |
Fabs Ceramics |
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I 11 |
Roynon Ceramics
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