OR thousands of years the human hand has taken a simple material dug from the ground and fashioned it into objects of beauty and necessity. We are, of course, talking about clay. The earliest known artefacts made from it were not bowls or tools as one might imagine, but expressive statuettes. Despite this millennia of creative endeavour, for a long time in modern society pottery was seen as a ‘lesser’ art form than its sculpture and painting cousins and was given short shrift by the lofty art world. However, for the past decade or so, this has been rapidly changing and
