Championing the very best independent ceramic makers for over 60 years

Contemporary Ceramics gallery and shop exhibits the greatest collectable names in British ceramics along with the most up and coming artists of today. Our distinguished makers are all carefully selected members of the Craft Potters Association.

 

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Meet Our Makers

All of our makers are members of the Craft Potters Association and each of them have a story to tell.

Ömer Öner
Ömer Öner

Ömer is a Turkish artist whose practice explores transformation through ceramics. He holds BA and MA degrees in Medieval History and previously worked as a lecturer and researcher in Turkey before relocating to London to study Ceramic Design at Central Saint Martins. His practice is shaped by historical awareness, material curiosity, and a fascination with the overlooked potential of found objects.

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Carol Sinclair
Carol Sinclair

Carol works from her home studio in rural Angus, with views out to the foothills of the Cairngorm mountains that offer daily inspiration. She is a ceramics graduate of Grays School of Art in Aberdeen and has been running her ceramics studio since 1991. For 15 years she ran her hand made tile studio and gallery in Edinburgh, gradually developing her practice to become an exhibiting artist.

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Jude Jelfs
Jude Jelfs

Jude undertook a foundation course at Somerset College of Art & Design, then gained a Dip. AD at Gloucester College of Art & Design in Fine Art (Sculpture with Painting). At art school, Jude worked mainly in bronze. She married John Jelfs in 1972 and became a potter. Jude and John live and work at the Cotswold Pottery, located in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, UK.

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Chris Keenan
Chris Keenan

Chris started his ceramics journey in 1995 as Edmund de Waal’s first apprentice, working with him for two years, learning the techniques he still uses in his own studio today. Thrown and turned by hand on the wheel using Limoges porcelain, Chris specialises in pieces for interior spaces – designed for functional use and for decoration.

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Peter Black
Peter Black

In his youth Peter collected (mainly damaged) Chinese Kangxi and 18th Century European porcelain, regularly visiting Portobello and Bermondsey Market at 6am.  His making came later, but is influenced by the pieces he bought, studied, and has loved over the years. These pots have of course been themselves influenced by earlier ceramic, silver, and pewter forms. 

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Wendy Johnson
Wendy Johnson

Wendy’s work is characterized by playfulness, gentle colour palettes, and illustrative qualities. She crafts both functional and non-functional pieces, drawing on a versatile foundation of slab building, pinching, and wheel throwing. Wendy’s recent practice focuses on intuitive, freehand mark-making across slabbed and thrown forms. By layering slips and glazes, she creates rich patterns and a painterly surface depth that celebrates the spontaneous interaction between form, colour, and texture. Wendy is a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association, having first joined as a student member after graduating in ceramics from Derby College in 1990.

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