W hen Ifirst had contact with ClayCraft (some years ago), Jacqui Atkin suggested writing a piece about my career as a pot ter. For various reasons, this never materialised, but when it was suggested more recently that I could write a monthly column about our new studio venture, summarising our career paths seemed like an impor tant part of the stor y. The outlines of our training, the impact of this on our making and teaching and, ultimately, our decision to open Clay Works, I hoped would be of some interest.
This ar ticle looks back at how I developed my more recent work and ends my retrospective; for now, at least…
When I was accepted onto the two -year Master’s course in (RCA) in 2009, Lauren and I (and our one -year- old daughter Eve) were still living in Devon. Lauren had – for the time being – left her teaching job to become a full-time mum, so working out how to f inance ourselves was trick y. We eventually decided that
