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Contemporary Ceramics gallery and shop exhibits the greatest collectable names in British ceramics along with the most up and coming artists of today. Our distinguished makers are all carefully selected members of the Craft Potters Association.
All of our makers are members of the Craft Potters Association and each of them have a story to tell.
Margaret works with light, smooth clay, either porcelain or white stoneware and combines this with the revealing process of vapour glazing. Her work has always had its roots in function and domestic ware.
Victorian architecture, Greek pots, and the sea are influences for her work. She particularly wants to convey the joy she feels when snorkelling. She delights in the colours and patterns of coral and sea creatures. She takes note of patterns when she travels whenever possible.
Josie became passionate about clay in 1976 when she enrolled on the Studio Ceramics course at Chesterfield College of Art. After three years of throwing, building kilns, visiting potters and generally being immersed in pottery, she opened a workshop in Matlock with a fellow student.
Jude undertook a foundation course at Somerset College of Art & Design, then gained a Dip. AD at Gloucester College of Art & Design in Fine Art (Sculpture with Painting). At art school, Jude worked mainly in bronze. She married John Jelfs in 1972 and became a potter. Jude and John live and work at the Cotswold Pottery, located in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, UK.
Making in her hometown of Stoke-on-Trent, Laura draws from the creative heritage and ambition of the pioneering potters who made the city famous. Her contemporary forms echo the grandeur of 18th century ceramics, she has long admired. Thrown in porcelain, each piece is a unique ‘sketch’ in clay, carefully turned and refined to reveal the precise form.
Suzanne began working with clay while accompanying her husband during their years living in the Middle East in the 1960s and 70s. She came to make clay her home ground and something she could take with her wherever she lived.
She discovered Oribe ware – Japanese tea ceramics associated with the Kaiseki meal and tea ceremony – whose glazes and playful geometric decoration greatly influenced her aesthetic. She ultimately decided to import English porcelain clay so she would have continuity wherever she worked and for the same reasons travelled with a small electric kiln.
Jihyun began working with ceramics in 2016 while studying in the Arts and Crafts department at Sookmyung Women’s University in South Korea. There, she developed fundamental ceramic skills and an understanding of how to plan and execute projects. After graduating, she moved to London to pursue a Master’s degree in Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art.
As a child, her love of doodling and illustration led her to dream of becoming an illustrator. At university, she was mesmerised by the way clay allowed her to transform imagined forms into tangible objects. The process—from building to firing—felt like bringing a living creature to life.
