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ClayCraft Magazine www.claycraft.co.uk Kelsey Media The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent ME18 6AL EDITORIAL Editor: Rachel Graham; claycraft.ed@kelsey.co.uk Consultant editors: Jacqui Atkin, Kevin Millward Contributors: Jacqui Atk

It’s a lovely time of year. The sun has some real heat in it, the hedgerows are full of f lowers and I’ve heard my first cuckoo. Last year I was lucky enough to have a turtle dove in the garden and looking back at the photos, I first saw it on the 1s

Over a period of 26 years, from 1991 to 2017, we travel across India and Pakistan in search of traditional potters, ancient cities, and archaeological and architectural marvels in the company of Jane Gibson, physiotherapist and potter, and her husban

If you have a news story, product launch or details of some other topical item you’d like our readers to know about, email claycraft.ed@kelsey.co.uk Now in its 14th year, this free annual event is Harrow Open Studios’ largest exhibition to date, taki

The winners of the 2022 British Craft Trade Fair awards were announced on 11 April in an emotional ceremony that saw the British craft community raise a glass together for the first time since 2019. Three ceramicists were among the winners: The Giftw

A new special exhibition is coming to York Art Gallery, home of the Centre of Ceramic Art (CoCA) for Summer 2022. Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art, curated and conceived by Dr Jareh Das in partnership with Two Temple Place,

Linda Bloomfield is a scientist turned potter. More glaze recipes can be found in her books, Advanced Pottery (2011), Colour in Glazes (A&C Black 2012), The Handbook of Glaze Recipes (Bloomsbury 2014) and Science for Potters (The American Ceramic Soc

April has been a month of bits and bobs, with very little clay finding its way onto the wheel head. I’m not unduly concerned about that, although we do have pressing deadlines and no stock whatsoever, but, after a few weeks of anything but making pot