Jill Fanshawe Kato graduated in Painting from Chelsea School of Art, London. After a period of teaching she had the opportunity to visit Tokyo in Japan, joined the school of potter Yosei Itaka and began to study Japanese pottery. She subsequently worked with renowned potter Ryoji Koie. Returning to London in 1977, Jill established her first studio. Since then, she has lived and worked in north London. She continues to exhibit in Japan, with 46 exhibitions there, mainly at Keio Department Store in Tokyo but also in Okinawa. She has exhibited widely internationally and across the UK. Jill has recently established a studio in Devon
Irish-born Susan O’Byrne studied Co. Kilkenny before moving to Edinburgh College of Art where she achieved a Post Graduate in Ceramics in 2000. Initially studying textiles, her ceramic work shows influences from this training, showing a fascination with texture, surface pattern and decoration. The work in this exhibition features new developments in surface decoration and for the first time, the use of glaze to reference Egyptian carvings seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the British Museum. Susan lives and works in Glasgow.
Exhibition pieces will be viewable online from Thursday 12th October
This exhibition profiles the works of ten esteemed makers, each of whom have recently been awarded Selected Member status by the Craft Potters Association.
As his working practice approaches fifty years, Jack Doherty’s work has become simpler and more focused. By stripping away what he considers unnecessary, Jack’s process now involves just one clay, one colouring mineral, and a single firing. For inspiration and courage, he looks back to prehistoric vessels, powerful anonymous objects that held both practical and spiritual significance in everyday life. These forms, made before art or craft, speak profoundly of their time and the people who lived with them.
“Simplicity is complexity resolved” - Constantin Brancusi
Lara Scobie is an Edinburgh based ceramic artist specialising in individual slip-cast vessels and bowls made in porcelain and parian clay. Focusing on the dynamic between form and pattern her work explores the cohesive integration of drawing, surface, mark making and volume. The off-center ellipses of the individual forms echo line drawings and decoration applied to the painted surfaces.
“The theme of balance is a constant, significantly underlining my current work in which ideas of dynamic interplay between form and surface develop.” – Lara Scobie
Sue’s work draws on the quiet resilience of trees and bones—forms shaped by time, marked by fragility and carrying memories of growth and decay. Through slow, receptive hand-building, each piece develops as if guided by an internal rhythm. Textured surfaces hold lines like weathered stories, while a soft matte glaze evokes a sense of calmness.
‘My hurt, my joy, my scars, my healing, all shape the work I create in clay.’ – Sue Mundy
