Artists' biographies and links
Kate Baxter
Kate Baxter is based in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex.
Richard Baxter
Based in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex – the St Ives of the east – Richard Baxter first worked with terracotta as a student at Loughborough College of Art and Design where he studied with David Scott and Martin Smith. His main influences are English and Japanese country pottery although he seems to have an interest in every aspect of pottery including glaze recipes and even ceramic musical instruments. In his spare time he sings and plays (non-ceramic) melodeon and saxophone with folk band The Famous Potatoes.
Ben Brierley
Ben Brierley has a fascination with wood-fired kilns having built three, two in Cambridgshire and one in the ceramics department of Loughborough University School of Art and Design in Leicestershire where he is currently a tutor. Ben's working knowledge of the potential of wood-fired kilns has a direct influence on his work as he explains:
There is no wall separating the fire from the work and through the duration of the firing the ash from the fire lands on the pots and at top temperature this ash melts to form a natural ash glaze.
www.ben-brierley-woodfired-ceramics.co.uk
Carole Glover
Based in Stafford, Carole gained an HND in Studio Ceramics from Derby University in 1994. She has worked with potters Svend Bayer, Nick Collins and Clive Bowen and makes her distinctive domestic pottery at home, throwing the pots on an home-made momentum wheel in her studio at the back of the house and firing them in a home-made woodburning kiln in the garden.
carolegloverpottery.co.uk
Sean Gordon
Sean Gordon graduated from the University Of Wales Institute, Cardiff with a BA in ceramics in1999. He set up his workshop in St Anne's Church Hall, Nantyglo which he shares with the local karate club and where he fulfils an ever-increasing number of orders including, in 2004, trophies for the Welsh Business Awards and commissions from leading British galleries.
seangordonceramics.co.uk
Janet Halligan
Janet is a graduate of Stourbridge College of Art and divides her time between France and Nantwich in Cheshire. She specialises in incredibly detailed trompe l'oeil works and cites among her influences the American pop artist Claes Oldenburg and the French surrealist Rene Magritte.
janethalligan-ceramics.co.uk
Hannah McAndrew
Hannah McAndrew graduated in 3D Design from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2000. After working as an apprentice potter to Jason Shackleton she set up her own pottery in 2003 in Lochdougan, South West Scotland with a grant from the Prince's Scottish Youth Business Trust.
www.thebarmpottery.co.uk
Janine Mannion-Jones
Janine studied pottery and art from the age of seven at the Penmore campus of the Chesterfield College of Art. Tutors included Chris Yensen and Don Yarrington. Janine has been working as a full time stoneware potter since 1996. In her work she aims to make beautiful, colourful and useful pots which are a joy to look at and to use.
Janine's pottery and shop are based in the Brampton area of Chesterfield which was home to over a dozen potteries at the end of the nineteenth century specialising in saltglaze.
http://www.jmjpottery.com
Lea Phillips
Lea Phillips was born in 1960 in Poole, Dorset, studied with Peter Studley at Bournemouth College and completed her studies at Harrow College. Lea came to Devon from Guildford in 1999 to spend a year working at Dartington Pottery and has remained in Devon as a self-employed potter ever since. In 2002 she set up her workshop at Coombe Park near Totnes.
leaphillips.co.uk
Liz Riley
Liz Riley graduated in 1988 with a degree in Ceramics from the University of the West of England. Her company – Love Unlimited Ceramics – is based in Clevedon, North Somerset.
Les and Sally Sharpe
Les and Sally are based in Corsham, Wiltshire where Les was tutor at the Bath Academy of Art after graduation from Harrow College.
