Eric James Mellon

Eric James Mellon (30 November 1925 – 14 January 2014)[1] was a ceramic artist who specializes in using ash glaze and underglaze graphic drawings of figures.

Trained at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London (1945–47), he was awarded his National Diploma in Design: Illustration (1947).

[2] In 1956 he married the artist Martina Thomas and the following year moved to a house he built at Bognor Regis in West Sussex.

By using ash glazes he joined the tradition of craft potters established in the early decades of the twentieth century by Bernard Leach, followed by Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie.

His work is featured in several books about ceramics, notably Phil Rogers, Ash Glazes - Second Edition (A & C Black & University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003) and Paul Foster (Ed.,) Eric James Mellon: Ceramic Artist (University College Chichester, 2000).