Studio pottery

Notable studios included Brannam Pottery, Castle Hedingham Ware, Martin Brothers and Sir Edmund Harry Elton.

[1] Leading trends in British studio pottery in the 20th century are represented by Bernard Leach, William Staite Murray, Waistel Cooper, Dora Billington, Lucie Rie and Hans Coper.

Originally trained as a fine artist, Bernard Leach (1887–1979) established a style of pottery, the ethical pot, strongly influenced by Chinese, Korean, Japanese and medieval English forms.

She worked in media that Leach did not, e.g. tin-glazed earthenware, and influenced potters such as William Newland, James Tower,[4] Margaret Hine,[5] Nicholas Vergette[6] and Alan Caiger-Smith.

He taught at the Royal College of Art from 1966 to 1975, where his students included Elizabeth Fritsch, Alison Britton, Jacqui Poncelet, Carol McNicoll, Geoffrey Swindell, Jill Crowley and Glenys Barton,[citation needed] all of whom produce non-functional work.

Cranks restaurant, which opened in 1961, used Winchombe pottery throughout, which Tanya Harrod describes as "handsome, functional with pastoral but up to date air".

According to Harrod, "the production potter of the Harrow type had a good innings well into the seventies", by which time the market for this style of pottery was falling away.

[7] From the 1960s onwards, a new generation of potters, influenced by Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design including Ewen Henderson, Alison Britton, Elizabeth Fritsch, Gordon Baldwin, Ruth Duckworth and Ian Auld[2] began to experiment\abstract ceramic objects, varied surface and glaze effects to critical acclaim.

[8] The representative body for studio pottery artists in the United Kingdom is the Craft Potters Association, which has a members' showroom in Great Russell Street, London WC1, and publishes a journal, Ceramic Review.

A major figure in the growth of this movement was Charles Fergus Binns, who served as the first director of the New York State School of Clay-Working at Alfred University.

European artists coming to the United States contributed to the public appreciation of pottery as art, and included Marguerite Wildenhain, Maija Grotell, Susi Singer and Gertrude and Otto Natzler.

Significant studio potters in the United States include George E. Ohr, Otto and Vivika Heino, Warren MacKenzie, Paul Soldner, Peter Voulkos and Beatrice Wood.