Ceramics | Films and articles on internationally renowned potters
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February 2020In the 15 years we have been selling ceramics, we have always sold domestic ware: pots made to live in a home, to nourish stomach and soul. -
July 2018American potter Randy Johnston’s expansive vision is constantly bringing together past and present, the conceptual and the formal, in the service of his art.
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June 2018At 94, Warren MacKenzie is still to be found at his foot-powered treadle wheel throwing the loose, lively pots that made him America’s most famous potter.
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May 2018Like wabi-sabi, Ken Matsuzaki’s work loses something in the analysis: it occupies the realm of the inexpressible, where chemistry remains alchemy.
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February 2018In these dishes, produced with Michael Cardew's old press moulds, Doug Fitch distills an intimate bond with the local landscape with a modern touch.
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January 2018These huge square dishes, with rumpled, up-turned edges, become vineyards or lavender fields in miniature: sgraffito scars mimic row upon row of grape vines.
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January 2018Of the many handmade ceramic forms that can enrich one’s day-to-day life, few are as simultaneously humble and enhancing as a handmade mug for tea.
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November 2017Ahead of our major exhibition of ceramics by renowned British potter Walter Keeler, we headed over to Monmouth to meet him in his studio.
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September 2017In the swirling surface of Kang-hyo’s Onggi, the musical tempest thunders on. Vigorous and meditative, they offer nourishment for the soul.
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July 2017Clay College's prospective programme looks to be taking ceramics teaching back to the essential basics, from throwing to firing and glazing.
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July 2017In this intimate interview, British potter and wood-firer extraordinaire Nic Collins discusses his ongoing relationship with fire and clay.
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May 2017Nic Collins is one of the best wood-firing potters in Britain. Here he talks about some of his favourite forms and the methods behind them.