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A Life in Ceramics – Jon Barrett-Danes April 15, 2021 Ceramics was always something my parents did, and when I was growing up it was just something that was happening around me. Although I did have an interest, I was far more interested in other things as you would expect from a teenage boy. Most of my

From first pinch pot to the Sussex Guild – Kate Hackett April 15, 2021 My first experience of clay was with my Mum, who was an artist and weaver, but decided to take a course in pottery at our local college in Chichester. Following this, our family all got the clay bug and my sister and

Plant Based – Lisa Katzenstein April 15, 2021 I spent my early childhood in Rome, and the early influences of colour and pattern have informed my craft ever since. I went to the Central School in the latter 1970s, a time and a place where old conventions of what “craft” was about were being overturned. Out

A moment in Time – Jessica Jordan Ceramics April 15, 2021 My career as a ceramicist began when I was still in school. I had a wonderful tutor who was interested in clay – she was so passionate about it that I was drawn to the medium too. It was something about the clay and its flexibility, and the seemingly endless

Why I do What I do – Andrew Hague April 15, 2021 I think it’s part of being human to want to make things. Often people who become professional designer/makers have had an influencing figure in their lives who made them aware of it as a possibility. For me it was my Grandad, although everyone else

Creative Knitwear – Sophie Cadogan April 15, 2021 Cadogan Cardigans – so named as I thought it was good alliteration especially as cardigans were exactly what I made when I initially started my knitwear business. That has now developed into the production of jumpers, tunics and lots of accessories such as mittens and scarves too. People ask

A Life with Mud – Stephen & Caroline Atkinson-Jones April 15, 2021 I have been producing ceramics in my various workshops since I was 17…I’m still doing that – it’s a lifetime’s work and interest, although I have been involved in a great variety of other pursuits over the years. After working and training in business

Sue Scullard – Wood Engraving March 8, 2021 Wood engraving must be one of the slowest ways of creating an image.  It can take up to 6 weeks to complete one, even something the size of a postcard, so it doesn’t lend itself to tight deadlines, but at least after all that work an edition of

How did it start? – Jonathan Chiswell Jones February 15, 2021 Anyone who has ever picked up a piece of clay and rolled it between their fingers or hollowed it in the palm of their hand, is a maker. My introduction to the lure of clay was rather more extended.  On the banks of the Hoogli