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Kentmere Pottery is the home of Gordon and Barabra Fox. After training with George Cook at the famous Ambleside Studio Pottery from 1959-66 Gordon set up his own pottery in the Langdale Valley at Skelwith Fold where he worked for four years before moving to Kentmere.
Situated in the famous and beautiful Kentmere Valley at the confluence of the River Kent and Park Beck, the studio produces fine handmade ceramics of outstanding quality. All pieces are finished and painted by hand, incorporating fine enamels and lustres. Gordon specialises in lamps, tableware, individual pieces, commemorative items and commissions, all of which are fired many times during the course of production. He also makes lamps etc to co-ordinate with clients' own colour and design requirements.
Go to the website http://www.kentmerepottery.com/
Wetheriggs Country Pottery is a 19th Century Industrial Monument steeped in a history of incredible creative spirit and endeavour and the fact that it remains today as the UK's only steam-powered pottery is testimony to that. Now Wheteriggs is the home of many designer-artists whose work is on display.
There's plenty to see and do: you can see the old pottery workings powered by steam and meet Richard the resident steam engineer. Also: make your own pottery, guided tours, and honest food in café Yam.
Go to the website http://www.wetheriggs-pottery.co.uk/
Gosforth Pottery is based in an old farmhouse in the Hardingill area of Gosforth, a small village in Cumbria at the entrance to Wastdale and Eskdale. We started as a working pottery and have expanded to include a shop selling not only our work (including our well known biscuit stamps), but also the work of many other potters; a teaching pottery providing week and weekend courses and two self catering holiday cottages, Potters Barn and Well Cottage.
Go to the website http://www.potterycourses.co.uk/
Quality hand-made ceramics. Abigails designs are decorative and functional, inspired by the changing seasons and a love of food, with harmonious tactile quality. The work is press-moulded or thrown and decorated by hand. This process means colours and shapes can vary and distort slightly, this is an integral part of the work, meaning no two pieces are exactly the same. The work serves as unusual high quality gifts, interior design pieces and hand made tableware.
Go to the website http://www.abijacobs.co.uk/
Contemporary pottery and courses for children and adults. The website provides an online shop and links to outlets for the pottery.
Go to the website http://www.edenceramics.co.uk/
Mary creates a wide range of ceramics, including a range of piereced decorative vases and bowls, earthenware and stoneware dinner services and many other one off items both decorative and functional. She uses a wide variety of clays and glazes to create her unique designs. Mary also undertakes commissions for weddings and anniversaries etc.
Since moving to Wetheriggs Mary has taken up the challenge of making the traditional Wetheriggs Slipware alongside her own ranges. Wetheriggs has a 150 year history of supplying the local area and visiting tourists with ceramics for the home and kitchen.
Go to the website http://www.interludeceramics.freeserve.co.uk/
John Kershaw produces a wide range of work such as stoneware, porcelain and raku, functional and individual expressive work creating strong contrasting textures of clay and glaze, soften using powdered clays on the wet thrown pot to build up a heavily encrusted surface.
Johns work is inspired by ancient and primitive pottery, partly because often the means of production are direct and very simple, but also because ancient artefacts are disconnected from their time and immediate function which gives them great peacefulness.
Go to the website http://www.kershawpottery.com/
Richard and Kathryn Rawson have been creating individual ceramic items here in Cumbria since September 2001. All pieces are individually crafted and are therefore unique. Most are based on a "slab" construction with square corners, flat sides and distinctive natural coloured glazes. The range includes slab bottles, heavily carved containers, "sack" pots, miniature furniture, decorative wall panels for indoor and outdoor use and clocks.
Go to the website http://www.rawsonpottery.co.uk/
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