20th, 21st & 22nd August 2021 Windsor Racecourse, Berkshire, SL4 5JJ
Opening Times: Fri & Sat 10:00am - 5:30pm / Sun 10:00am - 5:00pm
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t: 01782 271 200 f: 01782 280 008 Email: [email protected] Artists top left to bottom right: Ian Harris, Wendy Lawrence, Web: www.valentineclays.co.uk Peter Beard, Richard Robinson, Rose Dickinson WELCOME TO ART IN CLAY WINDSOR 2021 Our 27th Art in Clay has not only witnessed We are asking all of our visitors this year to CONTENTS its first online show, in 2020, but has help us by judging the People’s Choice now a brand new location at Windsor Award and voting for your favourite Racecourse. (located by main entrance) all you need Welcome...... 3 to do is use the onsite QR code that will Talks & Demonstrations...... 4 Whilst we were sad to leave Hatfield enable you to cast your online vote during House, we feel thrilled to be part of this Friday & Saturday of the show. We then Clay Creation Zone...... 6 wonderful venue and are grateful to all would like to invite all visitors to join us of Windsor Racecourses support over the on Saturday evening from 5.45pm (Mick Exhibitors...... 8 previous months. Casson Food Zone) for our Exhibitor Award Presentation when we will announce the Event Info & Site Map...... 36 Visitors will get to witness high-end art to winners of the Potters Choice, Mick Casson practical and functional ceramic pieces & Student Awards. We just ask our visitors one last request that are a perfect addition to your home which is to enter our competition or ideal as a collector’s item. Choose from We are again supporting Adopt-A-Potter by providing feedback on your nearly 200 of the Pottery world’s most so please ensure you visit their stand experience at Art in Clay to ensure knowledgeable and experienced potters, (individual marquee 6) and try your luck we can make next year’s event even well-known artists, and up-and-coming out on their ceramic tombola whilst better (pg 6). ceramicists who will be displaying and supporting a great cause. selling their art during the three day show. All that is left to say is a big thank you For additional information and Covid to you our visitor, it’s your support that Listen and watch a great line up of protocol please view pg 36 but if you need makes all of this possible and helps to ceramic artist doing talks & demonstrations help during the show just speak to one of promote the importance of clay to all. (pg 4) including an opportunity to hear the show staff who will be wearing bright from TV’s famed Great Pottery Throw Down blue t-shirts. Hannah Ault judge Keith Brymer-Jones (Saturday 12pm Show Director & 4.30pm) as he discusses his experiences A huge thank you needs to be given to all Art in Clay within the pottery world. Please note these of our helpers, volunteers, staff, sponsors, (Also a Director of sessions are to be booked in advance. and exhibitors. Without their support, time Valentine Clays Ltd & & enthusiasm Art in Clay certainly would LoveClay Ceramics In our Clay Creation Zone (pg 6) you can not be able to take place. Centre) have a go at throwing your very own pot, creating your own ceramic piece of art or experiencing the wonderful world of raku Transport of clays is kindly donated by Browns Distribution Ltd ORGANISED BY glazing. (t: 01782 525300) All information and listings in the show programme are correct at time of the event. 3 TALKS & DEMONSTRATIONS
Richard Godfrey Marquee 3:30pm WENDY LAWRENCE Located at the top of the show ground A journey in clay 25 years as a maker and a teacher. A brief talk about my There is always a great demand for the talks and demos, experience as a maker and a demonstration for hand seating is available, but on a first come first served basis. building techniques and carving.
FRIDAY, 20TH AUGUST 2021 4:30pm PHILIP HARDAKER Stoke-on-Trent is still the centre of our ceramic 11:00am MATTHEW BLAKELY universe. Still producing the finest clays, colour, kilns and related Dig your own glaze ceramic components. Anything ceramic related is available Matthew Blakely discusses how glazes can be made from your within a six mile radius in our city. This is why I decided to move environment. A broad and beautiful range of colours and here over 40 years ago and set up my studio in this magical textures can be produced using found clays, plant ash place. The history and heritage of ceramic production still and rocks. litter this city. My work responds to this special past as I’ve been digging shards and ceramic detritus from this land and 12:30pm MARIE PRETT-PEARSON incorporating it within my work. My practice has become a celebration of the past - women and men have forged our Mertle the sitting Mule creativity and formed our ceramic heritage and history. Marie will being demonstrating how to handbuild a sitting mule using thrown parts, pinching and modelling.
2:00pm RICHARD BAXTER SATURDAY, 21ST AUGUST 2021
How and why 11:00am DANIEL BOYLE Richard Baxter will do a ‘show and tell’ on making and decorating tips. Usually there area logical reasons for the Salt and ash glazed stoneware way tools are used to make things happen in a particular A demonstration of his throwing and assembling techniques way. accompanied by a talk explaining 30 years of salt and ash glaze development, explaining his unique salt and ash
glazed firing methods.
4 TALKS & DEMONSTRATIONS 12:00pm KEITH BRYMER-JONES SUNDAY, 22ND AUGUST 2021 Connection through creativity “I am delighted to be involved in this years Art in Clay. I shall 11:00am ALEX SHIMWELL be on stage on the Saturday talking about Clay, the Universe, and connectivity through Creativity. I will also be throwing a Throwing architecture, and the development of new work few shapes on the wheel. Really looking forward to The basic architecture of throwing and the development of meeting you”. my new work how their made where ideas came from.
1:30pm FELICITY LLOYD-COOMBES 12:30pm NICK MARSH Mixed Media Animal Sculpture My Journey with Clay Felicity will be demonstrating how she makes her animal Nick Marsh will discuss his journey with clay over the decades sculptures using wire, scrim and paper clay. from a 3D Product Design Course to developing his skills whilst working and travelling abroad enabling his own personal direction. 2:30pm ROGER COCKRAM
From the land to the Sea 1:30pm JEMMA GOWLAND Describing how my influences started with the land (countryside in Devon) – and gradually rediscovered my Making the Face of Femininity marine science background – and now centre on how I Our 2019 Student Award winner will take you through her throw, alter, decorate and fire the work – reflecting various journey of the development of her current figurative work, aspects of the sea that I observe. eg spiraling, ovalising, using the properties of ceramic materials to help illustrate painting etc to reflect moments and situations, that I notice. meaning.
3:30pm FREYA BRAMBLE-CARTER 2:30pm NEIL BROWNSWORD Beyond Preservation: Re-evaluating Intangible Cultural Creating a vase, my way Heritage in the UK Ceramic Industry I’m excited to share a view into my world of clay, as I take you Neil Brownsword explores through his artistic practice how the through a demonstration to create a vase. This will include global economics and advances in automation technology have some throwing and assembling, sharing tips along the way. radically transformed the landscape of the UK’s ceramic industry in recent decades. This presentation brings to light some important questions and elucidates Brownsword’s projects which re-evaluate intangible cultural heritage within Stoke-on-Trent’s ceramic sector.
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one WIN of 10 complimentary tickets for 2 Fire your imagination by creating your own ceramic masterpiece in our clay creation area people to next
The Clay Creation Zone is a special area found in the centre of the show ground year’s show! in an individual marquee where both children and adults can have a go designing their own creations using clay provided by Valentine Clays and wheels donated by Love Clay and Gladstone Engineering. Simply fill out our visitor survey THROW A POT HAND MAKE RAKU and you will be entered into On a potter’s wheel
with guidance from an & BUILD GLAZING a prize draw to win 2 tickets Your very own creation – with Raku Rob from experienced potter. from age 4 years Whitfield Kilns to next year’s show: £3 a go £2 for a ball of clay £10 per item
With the Throw A Pot and Hand Building areas although the items won’t be fired www.artinclay.co.uk/survey once dried you can still take them away to put in pride of place in your home. Handmade items are made using air drying clay which can be decorated with acrylic paints and clear varnish.
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Alex Allday Adrian Bates Decorative ceramic wares with Refined and elegant stoneware intricate surface pattern designs ceramics for home and year-round and textures, inspired by the fusion garden display. of traditional patterns and styles, Lucie Rie such as floral motifs, Victorian tiles 01453759830 and ornate architecture. Derek Emms (Newcomer) 07731921250 www.alexallday.co.uk
Pat Armstrong Lindy Barletta Mainly thrown, classically shaped An established potter focusing on raku-fired vessels and bowls using all pleasing ceramics for the home, types of Raku glazes. the table and for display. Thrown David Leach in stoneware and porcelain work 0178044420 includes large scale platters, www.patarmstrong.co.uk planters and pictures in clay. David Leach 07887483275 lindybarlettaceramics.co.uk Lorraine Bates Debbie Barber Woodsetton Designworks Ltd and Naked Raku and Smoke Fired Woodsetton Art Pottery in The decorative ceramics. Bowls, vases Black Country of the UK is home and bird forms are slip cast or hand to designer makers in clay & built and decorated with exquisite metal. Wheel thrown & hand built smoke patterning. stoneware and porcelain since Ian Gregory 1986. 01664434348 Ian Gregory (CCZ) www.debbiebarber.co.uk 01902883429 www.woodsetton.com
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Richard Baxter Peter Black Richard Baxter makes fine porcelain I create salt glazed pots in porcelain wheel-thrown ceramics which are and stoneware, including functional both useful and ornamental. He and one-off decorative pieces. My has developed many colourful and work is mainly thrown and finished unique glazes to adorn his bowls, on the potter’s wheel, sometimes mugs, bottles, goblets, and more. later assembled. Robin Welch Derek Emms 01702470490 07710142060 www.richardbaxter.co.uk peterblack.uk
Peter Beard Matthew Blakely Thrown and hand built one off I make pots represent the geology pieces in stoneware. of Britain, from rocks and clays that David Leach I have collected and prepared. All 01926428481 of my glazes are developed from peterbeard.co.uk these crushed and ground rocks. David Leach 01223811959 www.matthewblakely.co.uk
Benjamin Beckett Steve Booton From the real to the unreal, Reduction fired wheel thrown mythological creatures, Plimps stoneware with simple shino, Nuka, and birds, welcome to the world and ash glazes. inside my head. All my pieces Robin Welch are individually sculpted in white 07706258604 earthenware and hand painted www.stevebootonceramics.com with underglaze. David Leach 079545625589 www.theclayden.com
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Fiona Booy Freya Bramble-Carter I make both sculptural and Father and daughter, share a studio functional items. The former space in London. They anchor their comprising mostly whimsical practice in teaching and sharing anthropomorphic vessels and the craft of thrown and figurative chalices. The latter are highly sculptures inspired by different tactile, with contrasting interiors. cultures. They are to enjoy. David Leach Derek Emms 07956566229 07818060826 freyabramblecarter.com www.fionabooyceramics.co.uk Daniel Boyle Jon Bull Salt and ash glazed stoneware. Thrown Vessels and forms. Vibrant slips and ash glazes - works Derek Emms to be explored beyond their 07904386530 surface. www.jonbullceramics.com Ian Gregory 01570423596 www.danielboyleceramics.com
Chris Bramble Terrence Bunce Father and daughter, share a studio I use a variety of techniques to space in London. They anchor their produce my pottery. To decorate practice in teaching and sharing the pieces I use locally inspired the craft of thrown and figurative glazes and gather clay and sculptures inspired by different minerals from the mountains cultures. of Snowdonia, firing mainly by David Leach reduction. 07810364181 David Leach www.chrisbrambleceramics.com 07928768782 terrencebunceceramics.cymru
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Jane Cairns Jenny Chan Hand built sculptural forms and wall Unique hand-built ceramic panels with a focus on surface. figurative sculptures and wall pieces Ian Gregory Lucie Rie 07811260661 07476720206 janecairns.co.uk jennychanartworks.com
Jacob Chan Charlie Clarke A combination of wheel thrown and Tactile, relaxed crockery individually figurative soda fired forms focusing decorated with folkloric images on the crossover of my cultural or glazed in vibrant, joyous heritage, decorated with found colours. I take my inspiration from objects and materials from around a background in travel, literature, the coastlines of Britain. illustration and nature. Derek Emms Ian Gregory 07742402120 07500162434
Mel Chambers (Alchemy Tiles) Licy Clayden Individually hand carved encaustic, Sketches from the Reef - Hand inlaid tiles with inspiring poetry, built in stoneware and porcelain, quotes and images using ancient my sculptural vessels are inspired 13th Century techniques held by a fascination of corals and the eternally in earth and time. colonies that become vibrant cities Ian Gregory for marine life. 07768193848 David Leach www.alchemytiles.com 07990685874 www.theclayden.com
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Alison Coaten Charlie Collier Hand built figurative sculpture. Stoneware domestic ware - pots Mixed clays, lustre and glass. for use. Wood and gas fired kilns, Robin Welch incorporating local clays and wood 07790384850 ashes. www.alisoncoaten.co.uk Lucie Rie 07825371622 www.charliecollierpottery.com
Roger Cockram Hilary Coole Individual pieces thrown in fine Inspired by her mums 1950s dresses porcelain, sometimes then altered. Hilary’s hand-built, slip decorated, Ideas originally inspired by the sea contemporary vessels and and coast near my home. Also a functional ware capture the fun, range of domestic stoneware. emotion and utopian aims of this David Leach era in their forms and patterns. 07902860466 Lucie Rie rogercockramceramics.co.uk 07851313275 www.hilarycooleceramics. wordpress.com Brigitte Colleaux Jonathan Cox Wood fired useful pots for the White earthenware hand-formed kitchen and the table. bowls, vases and plaques inspired Robin Welch by nature, painted with botanical 02084721446 designs and decorated with www.poterie-brigittecolleaux.co.uk iridescent lustres. David Leach www.jonathancoxceramics.co.uk
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Sarah Cox Neill Curran Colourful, humerous, barium glazed, Thrown vessels and forms fired handmade one, off ceramic exclusively in the Japanese firing sculptures, based on animals & technique known as Raku, a type associated flora & fauna. Larger of pottery traditionally used in outdoor pieces fired to 1280, and Japanese tea ceremonies. smaller gallery work fired to 1120. Lucie Rie Individual 07500163901 07979857623 www.neillcurranceramics.com sarahcoxceramics.co.uk
Laura Crosland Sarah Dalton Laura’s work is wheel thrown using a I create intimately sized Fine Art white stoneware clay and electric Ceramics - inspired by a hybrid of fired using multiple layers of glaze. my wild Pennine surroundings and Her distinctive geometric designs my time spent living and working in are carved by hand after the the Far East. turning process. Derek Emms Robin Welch 07908573045 07952291861 www.northpenninestudios.co.uk/ www.lauracroslandceramics.com originalart Dianne Cross Individually hand built boxes, Tony Dix vases, wall pieces and vessel forms Tony makes wheel thrown and evoking a feeling of the sea shore altered soda fired pots for everyday and coastline with washes of use. Alison makes life size decorative cobalt and copper plus occasional busts and figurative wall pieces ‘pops’ of yellow. using smoke fired, glazes and cold Lucie Rie processes. 01535606814 Ian Gregory 07806094268 anthonyalisiondixceramics.com
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Sally Dunham Roos Eisma Human and animal sculpture, My hand-built sculptural vessels are realistic, yet contemporary and allowed to develop organically, ‘A moment with Mister Herbert’, a using shaping and darting to create stylised human character made to a curved form out of flat pieces of make you smile. clay slabs. Texture is added with slips Robin Welch and dry glazes. 07850286566 Robin Welch www.sallydunham.co.uk 07593257338 www.rooseisma.co.uk
Gin Durham Steve Ellis The inspiration for Gin Durham’s Thrown and altered forms inspired stoneware and porcelain work from travels abroad and the UK. stems from traditions of storytelling Ian Gregory (CCZ) and a life-long fascination with the 07910388580 representation of animals in culture. Ian Gregory 07702862806 www.gindurhamart.co.uk
Ant & Di Edmonds (Tydd Pottery) At Tydd pottery we make large Bob Emmett coiled vessels, decorated with A technical and creative voyage geometric designs in black and that weaves an intricate design white. Our aim is to produce objects journey involving order, randomness which are striking, beautiful and and light. Vessels are wheel thrown, with presence. slip cast or slab built, sometimes Ian Gregory several techniques are used. 07484538643 David Leach www.tyddpottery.co.uk 07722393192
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Judit Esztergomi Jill Ford Wheel-thrown and press-moulded Porcelain bowls, tall Standing tableware from high-firing clays forms and Moon jars, thrown on decorated with various carving the wheel. Decoration focuses on techniques. textural detail using a satin white Lucie Rie glaze or soft black with highlights of 07720966132 bubbly crater. juditesztergomiceramics.com Robin Welch 01757289008 www.jillford.com
John Evans (JEV Ceramics) Chantal Fordham John and Janet collaborate in Contemporary hand built vessels producing sculptural and thrown and sculptural forms. vessel form ceramic art works, finely Derek Emms burnished and marked using smoke 07940174394 and fumes by a variety of low-fired ‘naked clay’ technique. Ian Gregory 07801151255 jevceramics.co.uk Ben Fosker My work is rooted in the English Slipware tradition. People often Karen Fawcett say that it makes them smile. This Ceramic hand built life sized bird pleases me. and animal sculpture, with mixed Derek Emms media bases to create added 07486456855 realism. Lucie Rie 07883284748 karenfawcettceramics.com
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Barbara Gittings Diane Griffin My Nerikomi porcelain pieces are Poetic porcelain sculptures inspired smokefired and waxed. I colour by ritual acts and Diane’s interest in clay, layering different colours, the structures we create to heal and slicing and rejoining to make slabs understand our human experience. of patterned clay, so pattern goes Ian Gregory through the body of the work. 07833449109 Ian Gregory www.dianegriffin.co.uk 07801493452 www.barbaragittingsceramics.com
Sean Gordon Simon Griffiths Hand thrown tableware made from Unique wildlife sculptures, high fired, Porcelain and Earthenware. Sean is suitable for indoor and outdoor best known for his Teapots inspired display. by industrial objects, but with a Individual. creative twist that appeals to all, 07749813722 well most! www.simongriffithssculpture.co.uk Derek Emms 07866497827 www.seangordonceramics.co.uk
Jemma Gowland Kerry Hastings Exploring the way girls are Kerry makes abstract sculptures constrained to conform to an ideal, that are dynamic and emotional in to present a perfect face and their expression alongside sculptural maintain the expectations of others. coil built vessels. As a moment for The disrupted surfaces describe contemplation both bodies of work their vulnerability. fit well in the home. Robin Welch Lucie Rie 07914986486 07714234861 www.jgowland.com www.kerryhastings.com
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Janet Halligan Joan & Jack Hardie Abstract sculpture loosely based Our designs are inspired by on landscape and the built natural forms and “grown” layer environment in stoneware. Also by layer in our self-built 3D clay hand built vessels, mainly teapots printer. Combining our artistry and and jugs, together with trompe l’oeil experience as potters with new sculptures such as bags and shoes. technology produces something Robin Welch special. 01270522416 Derek Emms janethalligan-ceramics.co.uk 07803174120 www.printedpots.co.uk Philip Hardaker My work responds to Stoke-on- Helen Higgins Trent’s special past as I’ve been Ornamental sculptural figurines, digging shards and ceramic detritus free standing and wall hanging, from this land and incorporating featuring a range of quirky animals it within my work. My practice has often wearing a costume or become a celebration of the past. disguise, a mask, a hat, theatrical Ian Gregory make up etc. 01782773493 David Leach www.philhardaker.co.uk 07969186473 etsy.com/uk/shop/HiggsCeramics Sue Hanna Hand built, raku and sagger fired Pippa Hill vessels and sculptural forms which I’ve been passionate about animals are decorated with geometric and clay from a very young age. symbols and rhythmic patterns I make animals in stoneware, present in African art and textiles. coloured with slips, oxides and some Derek Emms glazes. I reduction fire in a gas kiln to 07957449183 1260 degrees c. suehanna.co.uk Derek Emms 01963220367 www.pippahillsculpture.co.uk
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Matt Horne Pottery Alvin Irving All of Matt’s work is hand thrown Original artwork handpainted in porcelain and finished with directly onto raw and bisque thrown crystalline glaze. Crystalline is a tableware. Images created with complex glazing process in which inventive narrative and selected Zinc Silicate crystals form in the historic documentation. glaze during the firing. Derek Emms Ian Gregory 07788799955 07986250397 www.matthornepottery.co.uk
Jaroslav Hrustalenko Anne-Marie Jacobs My creativity is driven by passion Jacobs’ work is caused by her for colour, shape and impression fascination with the Essex salt marsh. of momentum. I appreciate pure Her sculptural slip cast forms, glazes aesthetics of form, expressed in and surface reliefs are inspired clean but complex geometric lines by her aerial photos of her local and proportions of golden ratio. landscape. David Leach Lucie Rie 07896254791 07812687282 www.hrustalenko.co.uk www.annemariejacobs.co.uk Remon Jephcott Holly Inglis Ceramic sculptural fruits and A range of stoneware and spheres, inspired by decay and paperclay sculptural creatures and erosion. Pieces are slip-cast and characters varying from abstract hand build, multi-fired and multi- animals, cartoon birds and mythical layered with oxides. interpretations. Robin Welch Ian Gregory (Helper) 07799052955 07724904296 remonjephcott.com www.hliceramics.com
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Jessica Jordan Jin Eui Kim My work is inspired by aerial views of Creating optical effects by landscape and seascape and takes arranging tonal bands differently many forms like; vessels, bottles, can influence perception of three- bowls, sculpture and wall piece. dimensional form. Ian Gregory Lucie Rie 07795164622 07737895637 www.jessicajordanceramics.com www.jineuikim.co.uk
Adam Johnson Pratima Kramer Finalist of The Great Pottery Throw Pratima Kramer creates distinct Down Adam has continued to ceramic sculptures from her studio explore clay with unique hand in Hertfordshire, UK. The sculptures built creations inspired by magical take form in vibrant, textured worlds, whimsy and under the sea. depictions that celebrate the Robin Welch culture and heritage of India. 07970968508 Lucie Rie www.adamceramic.com 07709270480 www.pratimakramer.co.uk
Tom Knowles Jackson Tony Laverick Tom makes functional pottery for Thrown porcelain vessels decorated the table, sideboard and oven that in multiple firings using glazes, slips is inspired by African and Eastern and metals. Traditions, local materials and the David Leech ceremony of eating and drinking. 079909 30598 Lucie Rie www.tonylaverick.co.uk 07507069566 www.tkjceramics.com
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Wendy Lawrence Susanne Lukacs-Ringel My work is inspired by natural form “Teaceramic, saltglazed tableware, and texture. My ceramic sculptures unique vases, thrown on the wheel, are hand-built and carved to fired in my two chamber woodkiln. create textural forms which are high Made from porcelain and stonware, fired and can be placed in interior saltglazed, natural ashglaze, and exterior spaces. celadon typ glaze. Lucie Rie Robin Welch 07748715596 01629669643 lawrenceceramics.com www.holzbrandkeramik.de Cabby Luxford Julie Leaming Inspiration for my pieces often Hand built stoneware sculptures originates from treasures I find whilst suitable for interior and exterior mudlarking and beachcombing. spaces. Abstracting forms from Shape, form, colour and the ‘story’ familiar landmarks Julies sculptures of the finds inform the pieces which reveal a glimpse of the original. are smoke or raku fired. Derek Emms Ian Gregory 07817461393 07730551011 julieleamingart.com cabbyluxford.com
Felicity Lloyd-Coombes Sheila Madder Figurative Ceramics of British I am a mould maker and slip caster, domestic and wild animals. working in coloured porcelain. Ian Gregory Layers of coloured clay are built 07557338347 up and carved back. The carvings www.lloydcoombesceramics.co.uk represent a hand print on the work. Ian Gregory 07783254221 www.sheilamadderceramics.co.uk
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Karen Marks John Masterton I create abstract porcelain Thrown and hand built porcelain sculptures and aim to evoke with reduction fired oriental inspired memories of time spent at the glazes. My work is designed to be coast. both functional and decorative. The Ian Gregory rich colour of the copper red glaze 07786780014 is often combined with www.karenmarks.co.uk Derek Emms 07875341900 www.johnmasterton.co.uk Adam Marsh My work is individually hand thrown Faye Mayo and is pure and modest in form, Faye’s vessels and figurative work colour and style. The simplicity of present a sense of delicacy. Her the classical shapes are highlighted intention is to draw the gaze of the through sympathetic glazes and viewer to the interior where blue lustres. hues hint at the possibility of inner Lucie Rie renewal. 07595985312 Ian Gregory www.adammarsh.co.uk 07704350408 fayemayo.com Nick Marsh Vessels and sculptures, with textures Kyra Mihailovic and flame painted surfaces. Distinctive hand-thrown and hand- David Leach painted ceramics in porcelain and 07890551215 stoneware. www.nicholasmarsh.com Lucie Rie 0780509750 www.kyraceramics.com
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Darrell Milnes Terry Nason Wheel thrown and hand built Functional ceramics inspired by the domestic and decorative colours, textures and ever-changing stoneware fired in a gas kiln. moods of the Derbyshire landscape. Ian Gregory (CCZ) Hand thrown on the wheel, often 07943255798 with added slip or texture inscribed into the soft clay. Derek Emms 07703656460 www.facebook.com/ terrynasonceramics Sue Mundy Lesley Nason Sculptural hand-built forms created Lesley creates porcelain wall art, from Stoneware clays, textured and decorative hand built vessels and decorated slips, oxides and glazes. distinctive jewellery inspired by Ian Gregory the fauna and flora of the British 07977932824 countryside. Robin Welch 07977934624 www.lesleynasonceramics.co.uk
Ian Morrison (Knighton Mill Pottery) Sabine Nemet Contemporary Salt Glazed Wood fired, soda glazed domestic Tableware. ware. Derek Emms David Leach 01722780128 07534295041 www.knightonmillpottery.com sabinenemet.co.uk
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Andrew Niblett Julie O’Sullivan Raku fired sculptural forms with the Julie presents a body of work addition of battlefield relics. shaped by living alongside the Derek Emms transient beauty of the Thames 01594822658 Estuary. Hand-built stoneware www.andrewniblettrakupotter.co.uk celebrating the tactile. Robin Welch 07765424797 www.julieosullivan.co.uk
Katy O’Neil Debbie Page My contemporary ceramic vessels, Fascinated by the moon, bowls and wall plaques are slabbed compelled to coil clay & to explore formed with black clay. They are the possibilities of colouring with decorated with slips before being glaze and smoke. This season’s work impressed with marks, glazed and is inspired by swirling water and by fired to stoneware. cherry blossom. David Leach Derek Emms 07971662179 07802347943 www.katyoneil.com debbiepage.co.uk George Ormerod Wheel thrown Porcelain and Rob Parr Stoneware using bright coloured Rob creates hand-built animal slips overlaid with glazes. Useable based sculpture that often reflects ware with designs from simple familiar narratives of everyday life. stripes to individually painted figures Robs work is fired to stoneware, and dancing around the vases. uses a range of different ceramic Lucie Rie materials and process. 07982273904 Ian Gregory www.go-ceramics.co.uk 07708334745 www.robparr.co.uk
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Andrew Pentland Tom Peterson Wheel thrown, wood and gas fired Flames, fumes, and smoke are used studio pottery. to decorate my pots using raku and David Leach pit firing techniques. 07522825876 Ian Gregory www.andrewpentland.co.uk 07595331841 www.petersonceramics.co.uk
Ania Perkowska Ania creates functional and decorative pieces inspired by Marie Prett contrasts and opposites. Working Handmade Sculptures depicting mainly in stoneware, she’s using Animals & People. Inspired by the minimum decoration and allowing Circus, Myths & Fairytales with vivid shapes and textures to take the imagination Marie aims to create lead. an infusion of energy, movement & Robin Welch emotion within each piece. 07944017801 Derek Emms aniaperkowska.com 07447722224 www.marieprettceramics.com Lee Pollard The ceramics that I make are in Jane Richardson stoneware and a combination Bringing the garden into the home of functional pottery along with and sculpture into the garden I alternate fire ceramics which are create stories and mini installations more aesthetic in nature - I am from upcycled materials sculpting inspired by the environment around birds to pumpkins creating exquisite me, natural history, geology, and a individual works of art. keen interest in glaze techniques. Derek Emms Ian Gregory 07599355601 07507635236 www.janespottery.co.uk
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Jillian Riley Ian Rylatt Old poison, apothecary and Hand thrown & constructed scientific vessels, slip cast in stoneware. porcelain and parian clay, Derek Emms decorated with oxides, pen & ink 01974 251409 illustrations & text or become more www.rylatt.co.uk sculptural with birds, animals and flora. Robin Welch 07871184973 www.jillianriley.co.uk Marieke Ringel Micaela Schoop I try to tighten the gap between My visually diverse ceramics are humans and other animals, I seek linked by their meticulously hand- to create a sense of essential painted surfaces referencing relatedness between mammals. The international patterns and historical equine and canine subject are of ceramics which explore issues of particular interest to me. identity and multi-culturalism. Derek Emms Robin Welch 07426388583 07931775988 www.mariekeringel.de www.micaelaschoop.co.uk
Tamar Rose Ken & Val Shelton Richly textured decorative hand Ken and Val’s Shelton’s work is hand built porcelain, born of a fascination thrown by Ken and painted by Val, with dramatic forms - their textures, she uses bold colours and free, movement and silhouettes. expressive brushstrokes to create David Leech vibrant works of art. 07961845959 Ian Gregory tamarrose.co.uk 07443116772
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Rory Shearer Mark Smith Reduction fired stoneware and All of my work draws inspiration porcelain vessel forms with an from the sea. Each piece is made emphasis on surface. Also framed to evoke a feeling or memory. I use illustrations on porcelain with an slips, oxides and specialist glaze to additional lustre firing to complete. create the patina. David Leach Lucie Rie 07886397058 01889591311 www.ShearerCeramics.moonfruit. www.marksmithceramics.com/ com home.html
Alex Shimwell Kate Stride Thrown stone ware and porcelain Kate has a keen interest in shape, reduction fired, for domestic and colour and texture. Her coil pots are decorative use. hand built to an average height of Derek Emms 40 cms. 07985 553711 Ian Gregory (CCZ) 07899862372
Pat Southwood Geoffrey Swindell Wheel thrown vessels provide an Very Small and miniature wheel opportunity for expressive forms, made Porcelain, as seen on “The with luscious surfaces referencing Great Pottery Throw Down” last an abstracted landscape. year. Derek Emms Lucie Rie 07985553711 02920512746 www.geoffreyswindellceramics.co.uk
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Hiro Takahashi Jean Tolkovsky Inspired from the nature, rich in I produce unique hand built textures, intricate and narrative. figurative ceramics. These toy like Wabi-sabi principle in functional pieces are inspired by fairy tales, ware and spiritual essence in novels and childhood memories. sculptural work. Stoneware firing, Each piece carries a loose narrative raku and smoked firing. that invites interpretation. David Leach Robin Welch 07803732510 07941083767 www.hirotakahashi.co.uk www.jeantolkovskyceramics.com
Paul Taylor John Townsend Slab built textured terracotta vessels, Eadweard Muybridge meets with extruded and press moulded American Abstract Expressionism additions. Some are smoke fired for functional and sculptural vessels others are coloured using the slip caught in movement. transfer technique. Derek Emms David Leach 07950245446 07703814025 www.townsendpotter.com www.paultaylorterracotta.com
Katie Timson Sally Tully Thrown and handbuilt stoneware I work mainly in Raku and various vessels inspired by natural objects other alternative firing processes. I collecting whilst out walking, such sometimes embellish pieces using as feathers, fragments of bird mixed metal leaf by gilding areas eggshells, rocks, pebbles, seaglass which have been burnished to a and seedheads. smooth surface. Lucie Rie Ian Gregory 07508937899 01736761882 www.katietimson.co.uk www.sallytullyceramics.co.uk
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Nam Tran Sarah Villeneau Gas fired Meteorite inspired forms. Sarah handbuilds organic vessel Creating landscapes through forms and wall pieces which aim textures and glazes. Unearthing to capture the rhythm of nature, clay. echoing movement like patterns in Ian Gregory the sand. It is fired to stoneware in www.cernamic.com an electric kiln. David Leach 07734958310 villeneau.co.uk
Craig Underhill Liz Watts Painterly, slab built vessel forms that Unique pieces primarily in porcelain evoke a feeling of place, landscape but also in terracotta. Each is hand or narrative. In 2020 Craig relocated built and individually freehand his home and studio to Cornwall to painted, and often gilded. The be in the landscape that has been work ranges from bowl and urns to so influential. figurative sculptural pieces. Robin Welch Derek Emms 07855998921 01225852284 www.craigunderhill.co.uk www.lizwatts.co.uk Angela Verdon A graduate of the Royal College Paul Wearing of Art, Angela’s focus has evolved Handbuilt sculptural vessels layered from translucent pierced vessels to with multiple slips and glazes abstract sculptural forms. Her work to render visually complex and is created using fine bone china & textured surfaces. porcelain. Lucie Rie David Leach 07904274715 07964715732 www.paulwearingceramics.com www.angela-verdon.com
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Elaine Wells Peter White A range of simple decorative and I throw and hand build sculptural functional pieces in stoneware. forms, inspiring vessels and Marks made on the wheel and tableware. Each item is individual, additions to the clay body are with no two pieces being exactly enhanced by a white ash glaze. the same. I love that each piece is Lucie Rie unique in its own right. 07810837543 Lucie Rie www.elainewellspotter.co.uk 07740942622 www.woburnsadnclay.com Gilly Whittington Sarah Went Porcelain, thrown and decorated Contemporary wheel thrown with ash glazes coloured by oxides. porcelain domestic ware and vases, One off pieces, boat teapots and decorated with textural accents. jugs, vases and platters, where Using clean lines and a soft colour the glaze is layered to create an palette, I aim for a body of work abstract effect. with a calm and quiet indulgence. Robin Welch Derek Emms 07580733760 07875049828 www.gillywhittington.com www.sarahwentceramics.com Rosa Wiland Holmes Kat Wheeler Nature provides balance and My work is thrown on the wheel inspires all my work. The sweeping using a dark, groggy clay in my waves and rocky cliffs. As well as the studio in St Ives, Cornwall. It is slip beauty of the female shapes and decorated using various techniques curves. It all ignites my imagination. on damp clay, then glazed and Derek Emms fired to a high temperature. 07855480022 David Leach www.rosawilandholmes.com 07890730454 katwheeler.co.uk
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Deiniol Williams Katherine Winfrey Deiniol’s ceramic practice explores Slip decorated earthenware for the dichotomy between rhythm people to enjoy using and to make and discord, balance and disorder them smile. by introducing raw and unrefined Lucie Rie materials into the clay. 07919957696 Robin Welch www.katherinewinfrey.co.uk 07866 266 861 www.deiniolwilliams.uk
Richard Wilson Tessa Wolfe Murray My pots reflect the spontaneity of Slabbuilt and slipcast vessels and the slipware tradition of decoration, wallpieces in white earthenware, with coloured clays on semi-dry decorated with stone impressions pots. Using terracotta clay and and textures, incised lines, slips, white slip, colours are applied in glazes and a controlled smokefiring. different ways. Lucie Rie Robin Welch 07887489900 01308455656 www.wolfemurrayceramics.co.uk www.rwilson-ceramics.co.uk
Kate Windibank Steve Woodhead Sculptural vessels with intricate “Art for Everyday Living” is a range surfaces, undulating edges, fault of traditional & funky domestic lines and fissures. Inspired by stoneware. Steve believes that using geological structures, erosion and hand made mugs, bowls etc. on a the transformational nature of time. daily basis enriches our daily lives. Derek Emms Lucie Rie 07870502460 01788522178 www.firedthings.com www.stevewoodheadceramics. co.uk
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David Wright Paul Young Coil-built, wood-fired, stoneware Domestic and decorative vessels using a coarse crank clay, earthenwares inspired by the simple ash and Shino glazes. Glorious English Folk Arts traditions. Sometimes incorporating wooden Lucie Rie lids. 07711628337 David Leech www.paulyoungceramics.co.uk 01664424333 www.davidwrightpottery.co.uk
Chiu-i Wu Hand built sculptural stoneware, coil Michelle young-Hares and pinch, gas fired. Ceramic sculpture inspired by David Leech the natural world. Work is thrown, 07706746993 altered, hand built and carved [email protected] then multi fired to mid stoneware temperatures in an electric kiln. Lucie Rie 07732659882 www.michelleyounghares.co.uk
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NEWCOMERS STAND 2021 Staffordshire University Derek Emms Marquee MA graduates of Staffordshire University, Karen Henry, Emma Alex Allday, Terry Nason, Rosa Wiland Holmes & Westmacott and Serena Quinn Jane Richardson. combine technique with an individual narrative to create unique ceramic art and design. UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES Robin Welch www.staffordshireuniversity. Cardiff Metropolitan University - co.uk BA (Hons) Graduating students from Ceramics UCA Farnham and Makers Course at Cardiff Met Graduates from UCA Farnham University. include Anthea who explores the primitive that lies beneath Lucie Rie the surface, Bill portraying the www.cardiffmet.ac.uk emotional effects of colour, Helen using free brushstroke and David Leach unrecoverable mark, and Sarah Cardiff Metropolitan University - Post 01252722441 using materials and human fragility Grad www.uca.ac.uk in porcelain. A collection of Post Graduate Ceramics working in a number of traditions and styles, all from Cardif UAL - Central Saint Martins School of Art & Design. Work of students from BA ceramic design at central saint martins. Robin Welch www.cardiffmet.ac.uk
Lucie Rie www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/ central-saint-martins
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All the information that visitors will need before and whilst at the show will be located on our website (www.artinclay.co.uk/visitor-info/)
STAYING SAFE AT ART IN CLAY DOGS Please read the staying safe at Art in Clay posters that Dogs are welcome, but must be kept on a lead. Please you will find dotted around the show ground. This details clean up after your dog. precautions we advise you to take while visiting the show.
Disabled Visitors CASH MACHINE Parking for disabled drivers is next to the entrance of our show. The nearest cash machine point is at the BP petrol station The exhibition areas are all accessible by wheelchairs but further along Maidenhead Road. please take into account the show is on cut grass that is a field not a lawn and is therefore uneven in places. PHOTOS We ask that when taking photos of exhibitors and their Food Zone work that visitors just check with the artists that they are There is a range of festival food available to suit all tastes happy for you to do so. in two Food Zone area including wraps, gourmet burgers, Tacos, Barista coffees, hot & cold drinks, homemade cakes and ice cream. FIRST AID First Aid is available near the rear of the show site (see map) TOILETS There are two locations of toilets at either end of the show ground. LOST CHILDREN AND LOST PROPERTY Please contact the information and organisers marquee at the main entrance.
36 Road to racecourse and water taxi ART IN CLAY SITE MAP Racecourse MAP KEY
Exhibitor & Disabled Car Park INDIVIDUAL MARQUEES
1. David Leach & Robin Welch Main Show Entrance I 9 2. Derek Emms & Ian Gregory 10 3. Lucie Rie F 4. Sarah Cox Mick Casson Food Zone 5. Simon Griffiths 6. Adopt a Potter
4 Visitor 7. Raku Glazing with Raku Rob Car Park 5 1 8. Clay Creation Zone 6 9. Ceramic Review 10. Outdoor Exhibition Area 2 Information & Organisers Tent 8 7 Toilets
Food Zone
F Road Hans Coper 3 Food Zone
Richard Godfrey Talks & Demo’s
Main Gates
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