James Campbell was a potter, however he also used charcoal and pastels, played the jazz trumpet and wrote poetry.
From 1959 the Royal College of Art ran a pilot scheme that involved accepting some students straight from school.
[2] Soon he was teaching pot making on a foundation course, the students learning disciplines from ceramics to fashion.
Now gainfully employed, he set up his first pottery workshop near Ross-on-Wye and started exhibiting his pots.
In 2013 Campbell purchased a 16th-century timber-framed house and studio in Gloucestershire, not far from the site of his earlier workshop, and produced hand-built, individual pieces using a Staffordshire red clay.