I was born and grew up in South Africa, obtaining my BA (Hons) Fine Art degree from the University of Natal in 1979. After working in a number of studios and a period of teaching I moved to England in 1986 and settled in Suffolk where I continue to live and have a studio at my home. My freethinking approach to pottery has had me investigating the subject of pots from a number of viewpoints. In multimedia and virtual reality when commissioned to produce a CD-ROM in the Insite Arts program, to a Year of The Artist residency where I worked in collaboration with patients at two doctors surgeries using the pot as a vehicle for patients to visualise their medical condition.
Ceramics
3D Ceramic Printing
Pippin Drysdale
An acclaimed International Artist and Master of Australian Craft, Pippin Drysdale's career as a ceramic artist spans 30 years. Her passion for the craft merges with a love of the landscape, which has travelled across continents and in most recent years has focussed on the vivid dessert landscapes of Australia. Her works evoke a timeless and breathtaking sense of space and place within finely crafted porcelain vessels, narrating the mesmorising vastness of colour experienced in the unique Australian landscape.
Elizabeth Fritsch
a British studio potter.[1] Her hand built painted pots are often influenced by music, painting, literature and architecture.[2] Fritsch studied harp and then piano at the Royal Academy of Music from 1958 to 1964, but later took up ceramics under Hans Coper and Eduardo Paolozzi at the Royal College of Art from 1968 to 1971. In 1985, she set up a studio in east London, England.[3] Since her first show in 1972, Fritsch has had a number of solo shows. In 1996 and 2001 she was shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize for Ceramics. Fritschs' work is represented in major collections and museums around the world.[4] and in Britain.[5] Recently a major retrospective was held at the National Museum Cardiff, UK, in 2010, featuring a complete range of her most significant studio pottery and recent pieces where she also considered 'the space between the second and third dimensions', a concept she first described as ‘two-and-a-half dimensions’.[6] 'Dynamic Structures: Painted Vessels' also marked her 70th birthday.[7]
Joanna Bird
Dealer in modern and classic pottery.
Michael Sherrill
The son of an inventor & motorcycle racer and warrior princess homemaker, Michael Sherrill has lived in the western North Carolina mountains since 1974. He considers himself a materials-based artist experimenting primarily in the media of clay, metal, and glass. At the heart of his interest is the intersection of where humans and materials meet in both handmade objects and the natural world.