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As it is getting more spring- like and birds will be flying back home soon, here is a little reminder of what we could be doing soon - birdwatching! This is an automaton by Peter Markey ‘Birdwatchers’...Something playful to brighten up grey morning: Peter Markey’s Can-Can and Vase Argenta designed by Wilhelm Kage for Gustavsberg.
Tag Archives: Studio Pottery
Form and Function: Geoffrey Whiting’s Teapots
Geoffrey Whiting’s teapots are the forms for which he remains best known, having achieved a design that is at once highly functional, but also good to look at as a piece of working sculpture. It is one that combines all … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century Design, Ceramics, Crafts, Modernism
Tagged David Whiting, Exhibition, form, form and function, Geoffrey Whiting, Mid-century Modern, modernist, porcelain, Pottery, Studio Pottery, teapot
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Geoffrey Whiting: a potter and a painter
Geoffrey Whiting had an important parallel activity as a watercolour painter, but this is a lesser known area of his art. His great knowledge of the natural world underpinned all his creativity. It was there in the coloration of his pots, … Continue reading
Geoffrey Whiting’s Candlesticks for Canterbury Cathedral
You can find candlesticks made by Geoffrey Whiting in Canterbury Cathedral It is always gratifying, but still all too rare when potters get major commissions. In 1982 Geoffrey Whiting was commissioned by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral to … Continue reading
A Pioneering Ceramic Studio
Behind every successful man, there stands a woman. A Pioneering Ceramic Studio There is a very old and famous saying, ‘behind every successful man, there stands a woman’, and Geoffrey Whiting had Anne Whiting. After the second war she co-founded … Continue reading
Making Useful Simple – Geoffrey Whiting at the KSC
1st October – 14th December Our latest show at the Ken Stradling Collection highlights the art of making beautiful items for the home through an examination of the work of potter Geoffrey Whiting (1919-1988). The exhibition is totally Covid-19 friendly. … Continue reading
A Taste of Sunshine
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Sally Nash, the daughter of William Newland and Margaret Hine, artists who’s work is featured in the current exhibition at the Design Study Centre Of Brush and Clay: Painter Potters of the 20th … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century Design, Ceramics, Crafts
Tagged 1950s, Bill Newland, ceramic bull, Mid-Century, Picassiettes, Picassoettes, Slipware, studio ceramics, Studio Pottery, William Newland
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