works with clay and wire to re-create images and memories garnered from a childhood spent on the Isle of Wight.  Often fires the piece many times to acheive subtle and complex glazes.

A mastery of the technique of Raku defines Peter Levy's  work, with its rich, crackled and smokey glazes. The technique involves  removing ceramics from the kiln during the firing process, whilst they are still hot causing them the glaze to craze. They are then placed into flammable material such as woodshavings or sawdust, which ignites and smoulders against the crazed glaze, thus creating distin...

Molly Attrill first trained as an apprentice with Michael Leach at Yelland Manor Potter, North Devon, and then at The West Surrey College of Art & Design, Farnham, under Henry Hammond (1974/77).  

After working as a ‘journeyman’ thrower in studios in France and Canada, she set up her own pottery in 1982 in an old grain barn at Mersley Farm, Newchurch, Isle of Wight where she worked exclusively...

"Using hand building methods means each piece evolves slowly, enabling it to develop its own character, to become individual while still retaining evidence of the maker. The technical challenges of working with clay and fire provides an endless fascination, each piece I complete proves to be the catalyst for the next.

Numerous other cultures and artists have influenced and inspired this body of wo...

Light hearted designs from the newly established IW studio of Kirstie & Paul Hayler.  Kirstie trained at Brighton School of Art, gaining a BA Hons. degree in fine art painting. She loves working with clay, "my body and my mind have to be utterly focused in the creation of this perfect, and gloriously messy, form".  Paul is expert at the technical processes of mixing glazes.

Ceramics for cooks and kitchens.  Highly funtional ceramics with gorgeously colourful, high gloss glazes.

New to Yarmouth Gallery this year. Exquisitely hand crafted Raku fired ceramic vessels and bowls inspired by sea and coast. 

Every piece Dennis Fairweather makes has great originality.  His vaguely amorphic lamps are absolutely unique, each with its own experimental glaze.  Dennis just never stops experimenting and innovating.

Hand built from a variety of stoneware clays, the slab built bottles are thinly rolled to create finished pieces that are light and elegant. Coiled bottles are spherical in form, but differ due to the nature of the construction method.  
The bottles are reminiscent of human forms having defined shoulders and narrow necks.  Glazes and decorations evoke landscapes, beaches, seascapes: I use a dry tu...

 Uses a mix of handbuilt, press mould and thrown techniques  inscribing lines and text into the surfaces  and applying slips and oxides

Hand thrown and decorated domestic stoneware with rich copper red and cobalt blue glazes, some with the addition of precious lustres

Handcrafted to a very high level of detail, life-size ceramic birds and animals.  Frost proof and colour set, many of her clay sculpted creatures can be shown out of doors in garden or on patio.

IW potter making colourful slab built, raku fired ceramics with the feel of the Island's coast, sea, cliff and shore

smoke is used as part of the decoration of these pots.  Rags, wires, seaweed, plant fronds and salt have all been used to colour the smoke that impregnates the ceramic body to create random markings

Colourful slipware inspired by his seashore environment

known for his restrained blue-grey glazes and sea themed motifs.  He has more recently added a broader range of designs, including hare and flower motifs

hand rolled and individually decorated with Jane Maddison's unique, whimsical designs

Vivienne Rodwell-Davies produces an individual range of functional stoneware and porcelain ceramics, both thrown and handbuilt. She combines strong tactile shapes with silky glazes – black, white and soft greys with accents of recycled glass.

Her inspiration comes from drawing and looking at the landscape and coastline.

Uses hand-building, especially coiling with super white raku clay, decorated with thin washes of cobalt oxide and green underglaze to create a watercolour feel aimed at reflecting the atmosphere around the Connemara coast where she has spent time living.

delicate porcelain lamps and tea lights inspired by pollen, pods and more recently, woodland scenes with birds

Northumbrian potter making functional domestic ware.  Bold, contemporary design combined with traditional skills

Thrown clay bottle forms and bowls with simple, eggshell like glazes inspired by the colours of nature, sea, sky, earth

makes tiny, jewel like pairs of shoes which she mounts in groups to create framed wall hangings

delicately wrapped ceramics with luxurious and vibrantly illustrative surfaces dripping with gold and mother of pearl lustres

Dorset artist who spends many hours creating her fine hand drawn designs

works with porcelain, using sumptuous bronze and turquoise glazes a to create a range of pots with a sea shore theme, reflecting her IW home, also creates miniature pots and a range of jewellery. 

Sculptor Sally Dunham created the lovable Mister Herbert, a stylized figure with gangly limbs and a long face with minimal features; much of the character exudes from the body language.  She says,"I have great fun thinking up new adventures for Mister Herbert and hope that the pieces bring a smile to the onlooker."