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Keith Brymer Jones (born 3rd June 1965) [1] is a British potter and ceramic designer who produces homeware with retro lettering and punk motifs. He is an expert judge on Channel 4 television programme The Great Pottery Throw Down .
British Ceramic Tile (BCT) is the largest manufacturer of ceramic and glass tiles in the UK, based in Devon. The company has been in operation at the Heathfield site, Newton Abbot since the 1850s. In September 2009, a major expansion of the BCT factory was completed, [ 1 ] making it the largest and most efficient tile-making plant on one site ...
Elizabeth Fritsch CBE (born 1940) is a British studio potter and ceramic artist born into a Welsh family in Whitchurch on the Shropshire border. [1] Her innovative hand built and painted pots are often influenced by ideas from music, painting, literature, landscape and architecture.
Richard Slee (born Carlisle, 1946) is a British ceramic artist.. He studied at Carlisle College of Art and Design (1964–65), the Central School of Art and Design (1965–70), from which he graduated with a first-class honours degree in ceramics, [1] and the Royal College of Art (1986–88).
Nearly 2,000 Chinese ceramics worth £1bn are to be donated to the institution by a charitable foundation. British Museum given its most valuable gift ever Skip to main content
The Great British Sewing Bee The Great Pottery Throw Down is a British television competition programme that first aired on BBC Two from 3 November 2015 to 23 March 2017. It was then moved to More4 from 8 January to 11 March 2020, and has been broadcast by Channel 4 since 10 January 2021.
Leading trends in British studio pottery in the 20th century are represented by Bernard Leach, William Staite Murray, Waistel Cooper, Dora Billington, Lucie Rie and Hans Coper. Originally trained as a fine artist, Bernard Leach (1887–1979) established a style of pottery, the ethical pot , strongly influenced by Chinese, Korean, Japanese and ...
Portmeirion Pottery began in 1960 when pottery designer Susan Williams-Ellis (daughter of Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, who created the Italian-style Portmeirion Village in North Wales) and her husband, Euan Cooper-Willis, took over a small pottery-decorating company in Stoke-on-Trent called A. E. Gray Ltd, also known as Gray's Pottery.