CERAMICS
We exhibit the work of around 35 ceramics artists, including some of the Isle of Wight's leading potters, such as Molly Attrill and Neil Tregear, alongside other well established ceramics artists from around UK.
Molly Attrill
Earthenware, majolica & slip
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 on the Isle of Wight in 1982.
Tregear Pottery
Contemporary Domestic Ceramics
Based in Niton in the south of the Isle of Wight, Neil Tregear and his team handmake all the pieces in his coastal inspired collection. They use the finest white stoneware clay decorated with slips and glazes developed by Neil over the years.
Amanda Rachel Toms
Slab built and thrown ceramics
Amanda works with clay and wire to re-create images and memories garnered from a childhood spent on the Isle of Wight. She often fires her pieces many times to achieve subtle and complex glazes.
Firestone Studios
Hand thrown & painted
Light hearted designs from the Isle of Wight pottery 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.
Dennis Fairweather
Sculptural Ceramics
Every piece Dennis makes has great originality, from his amorphic lamps with their experimental glazes, to his closely observed studies of local wildlife such as hares and owls. Dennis just never stops experimenting and innovating from his studio in Freshwater Bay.
Wendy Hayden
Hand Built Ceramic Forms
Wendy is a local, Isle of Wight artist and ceramicist. She's fascinated by the endless possibilities of working with clay and uses hand building techniques to explore form and texture, taking inspiration from the natural world.
Valerie Stacey
Hand Built Hares
Peter Levy
Sculptural Raku
A mastery of the technique of Raku defines Peter'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 the glaze to craze. They are then placed into combustible materials such as wood shavings, which ignite and smoulder against the crazed glaze, creating unique, distinctive surfaces.
Michelle Freemantle
Studio Ceramics
Michelle uses a mix of hand built, press mould and thrown techniques inscribing lines and text into the surfaces and applying slips and oxides, to a beautiful and usable range of domestic ware. She is inspired by the agricultural landscape surrounding her home in the East Yorkshire Wolds.
Andrew Niblett
Raku Potter
Andrew got his first potter's wheel at the ages of 5. His elegant hand thrown pieces are noted for their unusual and distinctive surface finish - created by the ancient and unpredictable Raku firing process - featuring intense depth of colour with the appearance of velvet or suede. Andrew is based in the Forest of Dean.
Richard Wilson
Studio Ceramics
Richard is inspired by the seas and landscape surrounding his studio in South West Dorset. He creates bold abstract designs overlaid with slip trailed patterns and produces a variety of pieces, from domestic wares to 'one off' vases.
Selborne Pottery
Hand Thrown Stoneware
Selborne Pottery was established 35 years ago by renowned potter Robert Goldsmith in the Hampshire village of Selborne. Robert and his team take pride in every piece of their stoneware being hand thrown and decorated using their own handmade glazes and pigments. Selbourne produces a range of timeless pieces, rooted in traditional techniques.
Vivienne Rodwell-Davies
Stoneware & Porcelain Ceramics
Vivienne uses both thrown and hand built techniques to create strong tactile shapes with silky glazes. Other pieces have a more organic feel, inspired by the sea, finished with a vibrant turquoise blue glaze.
Amy Cooper Ceramics
Porcelain Lighting
Amy and Gareth make stunning porcelain lights in their garden studio near Truro in Cornwall. Using liquid clay, the pieces, inspired by organic forms, flora and fauna, are slipcast in plaster moulds with each being individually altered through manipulation when raw, stencilling or sandblasting.