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I know this may be an unpopular view, but I’m a little bit sad that the contestants on the Great Pottery Throw Down are all so good! It seems to me the days of it being truly amateur potters who make some really classic beginners’ mistakes are gone,

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The Leach Pottery is excited to present its first selling exhibition of 2024, 'Colour & Movement', which launched this month, just as the shoots of spring started to unfurl. The group show celebrates contemporary and emerging potters who work with co

Since the pandemic, there have been supply chain issues that have affected many of our glaze materials. Prices have increased so that pottery suppliers sometimes opt for a cheaper material, affecting our glazes. This happened to me recently when I bo

EPISODE 1: Roast dinner set based on your perfect Sunday memories Challenge: Throw down – identical side plates Inspired by the pattern on her Granny’s Wedgwood, Donna’s striking red decoration won her this week’s accolade, with the judges proclaimin

Putney School of Art and Design (PSAD) was originally founded in 1883 and has been in Putney since 1895. The main benefactor of the original Victorian school (with a superb life-drawing studio, complete with vast north-facing windows) was Sir William

I’m trying not to make a habit of this, but I’ve another idea you might be interested in. The first time I wrote to you, I’ll admit, was because I thought it would be amusing if I suddenly appeared in my wife Elaine’s favourite magazine. When you rep

Well, so much for hitting the ground running this year. Three or four days after Christmas, I took ill once again with yet another virus. It felt like COVID, with a high fever for days on end and the most terrible, uncontrollable cough. I tested dail