As you walk to the back of Contemporary Ceramics Gallery to find the current exhibition, you pass square white-painted cubby holes. Each one shows the work of a selected member of the British Craft Potters Association. What a feast of inspiration! We're told that there are over 150 of these accomplished member artists so there must be a system of rotating the spaces over the…
Saturday October 14th was spent in Central London. I'd had an idea of contacting Lisa Hammond and trundling out to Greenwich to meet her, but decided instead to go to the Gallery of Contemporary Ceramics on Great Russel Street (as I always do when in London). I was sure to see the very best of many different kinds of ceramic work, including some of Lisa's.…
I always try to make my way up to Tottenham Court Road tube station when I'm in London. The Contemporary Ceramics Centre Showroom is a short walk from there, right across the road from the British Museum, so is easy to find. This collection of photos shows work that grabbed my attention, either because I have met the potter and/or I'm really impressed…
I've prepared another Picasa album. This time it includes all the splendid ceramics I photographed when I was on a brief trip to England last September. Earlier I posted work seen in Cambridge but I never got around to assembling these for you pottery fanatics to see. They certainly make a big contrast to the ancient Mexican work I posted recently. I see the British…
Now this is an interesting invitation! Jane Hamlyn's new work will be shown in the brand new Contemporary Ceramics Gallery across from the British Museum from May 12th - June 4th, 2011.