Emmanuel Cooper OBE (12 December 1938 – 21 January 2012)[1] was a British studio potter, advocate for LGBT rights and writer on arts and crafts.
[4] In the early 1970s, he was also a cofounder of the Gay Left collective,[1] and remained a prominent LGBT rights campaigner throughout his life.
[1] He also published several studies of LGBT art, including The Sexual Perspective and Fully Exposed: The Male Nude in Photography.
In their more extravagant forms though the vessels can be banded or use incredibly vivid colors to great effect including pink, vibrant yellow and deep reds and blues.
His other form of work is much simpler in style using plain glazes, often in egg yolk yellow, occasionally spotted with gold flecks.