Donovan Palmquist has been making pots for over 45 years. Currently, he makes pots part-time and is the owner of Master Kiln Builders. He received his MFA in Ceramics at the University of Minnesota in 1988. He exhibits his work nationally, and has re-ceived numerous grants and awards. He has served on the Board of Directors at the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, and has taught at the Northern Clay Center and Ano
Zoe Preece was born in South East England in 1973. She now lives and works in Wales, with her studio based at Fireworks Clay Studios in Cardiff. She studied Ceramics in her first degree at Cardiff School of Art and Design (2000), completed a Masters in Ceramics also at Cardiff School of Art and Design (2010), and a PGCE (FE/HE) at Cardiff University (2013). She works as ceramic tutor for UWC Atlantic College. Zoe has
My interaction with clay continues to be inspired by various found /observed forms in the natural world and explores my fascination with organic geometry and a love of colour. I use Stoneware / porcelain clays, depending on the dimensions of the piece, incorporating throwing and hand building techniques to create individual sculptural vessel forms. The surfaces are hand painted with layers of under glazes and geometr
Using clay, Sharon Griffin sculpts the figure and the face, capturing the essence of the universal human condition in its rawest sense. Oxides, slips and glazes are ‘drawn’ into the surfaces of the clay creating textured, multi-layered works of art which are highly emotive and full of energy. Her intuitive gestural mark-making and extensive knowledge of portraiture allows her to play with the human anatomy, specifica
The nomadic life Theodora has led since early childhood makes her a citizen of the world. She studied ceramics in London, Faenza and Geneva. Her work has been shown internationally and has been awarded several times. It oscillates between objects and installations, function and concept, timeless tradition and deconstruction of the form. She now lives with her family and practices her art on the land of her ancestors
Thomas Bohle was born in 1958 in Dornbirn, in western Austria. He originally trained and worked as a nurse but in 1987 he completed an apprenticeship as a ceramist and opened his first studio in 1991. Influenced by a study trip to Japan and exhibitions in Tokyo and Shanghai he experiments with traditional forms and surfaces and is particularly noted for his double-walled vessels in powerful tense shapes and his stunn
Toni Losey’s work hums with an underlying current of rhythm and organisation. The repetition found on the wheel influences her work as Losey intuitively builds sculptural forms mirroring the patterns of growth in nature. These works evolve within a set of rules developed from her personal interpretation of the natural world. As she attempts to marry technical process with conceptual prowess, the work that em
I work in the Slipware tradition. Its roots in North Devon are what drew me to it. Its humble origins of the everyday medieval pot to its vibrant place in today’s studio pottery are what kept me at it. My pots are made for the kitchen, oven and table to celebrate food in everyday life. Although my work is deeply rooted in the North Devon Slipware traditions, it has a freshness that sits well in any modern home
Joe started his pottery career in 1964 with an apprenticeship under his father Ray Finch at Winchcombe Pottery. It was during that time that he gained his first experience of kiln building when helping to build a new two chamber, oil fired kiln. In 1968 he travelled to South Africa where he spent three months with Esias Bosch before moving onto Lesotho where he was sponsored to establish Kolonyama Pottery. Here he d
