 Edward Baldwin gained a first class honours in ceramics at Cardiff School of Art and Design in 2010. Since then he has exhibited widely and has gained many notable achievements. In 2011 Edward gained a 'Grants for the Arts' from the Arts Council England and support from his local authority, Worcestershire County Council for development of his practice...
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Peter Eugene Ball was born in Coventry, Warwickshire on 19 March 1943. He was educated at a local boys’ school and from 1957 to 1962 attended Coventry College of Art. , were born.
From an early age, the powerful visual images of paintings, sculptures and architecture made a deep impression on Peter Ball...
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 Clint cannot remember a time when he was not drawing. His first pictures were of crocodiles with toothy grins so it could be seen from an early age where an artistic career would take him.
Where’s he from?
When he was at school in Billericay he was interested in natural history, fishing, pottery, acting and - to his horror now - collecting birds eggs and butterflies...
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 Ceramics has been a family tradition spanning four generations at least. The earliest records show a pottery at Hoo in Kent in 1834 where even the street was named after my forbears. Each generation has produced their own particular style of work and responded to the changing needs of society...
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 Hayne says "
"The unintended result, often misread as a mistake and so dismissed, is one of the most fertile sources of new ideas. The trick is not to fool with clay's inherent desire to be expressive.
Pay attention to the clay, not only for the sake of each piece, but because the clay will offer - or impose - its own suggestions of new forms and ways to work...
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 I produce sculptural forms comprising of multiple elements that address the relationship between the formal qualities of line, scale, shape, material, colour and texture. This body of work is influenced by architecture and the minimalist approach to form. I am particularly inspired by Modernist structures, with their clean sharp lines, simplicity of form and innovative use of materials...
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"I was born in Israel and having completed a BA in History of Art and English Literature at the Hebrew University, came to England to study ceramics. I became deeply interested in functional domestic ware during the HND Ceramic Design course at Harrow College. For many years I have been making tableware for every day use...
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 Jo trained as a potter in 2 workshops - Coldstone Pottery and Campden Pottery in the Cotswolds. She started and ran Deddington Pottery, Oxon before marrying and moving to Hampshire.
Jo uses a potters wheel to "throw" domestic and decorative pots in high-fired red earthenware with painted, wax resist and slip decoration, also oven - proof dishes and some stoneware items for the garden....
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Pascale was born in Tulle (Correze) France and always loved drawing and painting even as a child, on anything and anywhere, paper, stones, walls and doors.
Pascale studied Architecture in Clemont-Ferrand and joined the evening classes at Les Beaux Arts where she used charcoal and sanguines in her drawings...
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 Inspired mainly by Japanese ceramics and the natural world, Alan combines throwing, hand-building and carving in the creation of individual pieces that are usually both decorative and functional and have an Oriental feel about them...
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 Karen Bird is a portrait and figurative Sculptor/ Ceramic Artist working in clay and casting in bronze, ciment fondu and plaster of Paris. Portrait sculpture has been Karen Bird’s main artistic interest and passion for over twenty five years. She has undertaken many private commissions in portraiture and life sculpture...
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 Cambridge based potter Matthew Blakely, graduated from Southampton University with a BSc in Psychology in 1984. BY 1993 he had acquired a Diploma in Ceramics (State Medal) Distinction from the National Art School East Sydney TAFE in Sydney, Australia...
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 Working in stoneware both at home locally and here at Bevere, Dave makes a range of wheel thrown pots and individual pieces.
They are reduction fired in a gas kiln. Using both modern and traditional wood ash and “Jun” glazes Dave aims to make traditional pots with a modern feel.
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 Farnham UCA
Objects can tell stories. At times the narrative may be clear and overt, at other times, intangible or obscured. Elaine aims to evoke this sense of narrative through the ceramic objects she makes and arranges. Collections and groups of objects are central to her practice. As a collection, these objects begin to develop connections between them and with the space they occupy...
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 As a mature student, Joy Bosworth studied Ceramics at Wolverhampton Polytechnic, now the University of Wolverhampton, where she gained First Class Honours in 1987. Since that time, she has worked as a Technician/Demonstrator and then as a Teacher on Foundation Courses at a number of colleges. She was later to become a Part Time Lecturer on BA courses at Birmingham University...
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 Charles Bound was born in New York City in 1939. After graduating from Union University in 1962 with a degree in English Literature, Charles spent the next three years teaching at secondary level. From 1965 to 1971 he worked for a publishing company, dividing his time between the USA and Africa...
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 Catherine Bowdler is a printmaker who grew up in Worcestershire and is now based in the West Midlands. Catherine graduated with a degree in printed textiles but in recent years has moved away from printed fabric to make original and affordable prints on paper...
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 liz says
"The work I produce is hand made stoneware tableware intended for everyday use.
The main focus of my work is placed on function, form and surface; I am still exploring the perfect balance of function and form, possibly the reason for my passion for teapots.
The surfaces of my pots have developed over a long period of time...
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Since graduating she has worked as writer, designer, illustrator and art teacher. Lara now concentrates on her artistic practice, documenting the plants, flowers and fruit that she has both established and inherited in her garden. Recently she has also turned her attention to formal gardens and allotments, and landscapes passed through on road trips...
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Work is slab built using clay (St. Thomas’ body).
"My linear slipware decoration is an innovative constantly evolving technique.
Strong forms have free and vibrant linear patterning creating all-over images of rich complexity."
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 She gained a place on a foundation degree to study applied arts at Plymouth College of Art and Design. Through her studies she encountered glass and her artistic practice moved away from ceramics.
During the first year she gained a place on a Master class at Northlands and felt that this was the turning point that enabled her to create glass past the blown form...
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 Ben says -
"My ceramic work is wheel thrown and altered using stoneware and porcelain clays. Forms seek to utilise and respond to the malleability of the material and work is altered and assembled while still wet. Current work includes bottles, jugs, vases, platters and bowls.
The work is wood fired to 1400 degrees centigrade in an anagama kiln, for three to five days...
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 Artist Valerie Briggs
Valerie has had a long association with Bevere Gallery; she is a self taught artist and first joined the Bevere Vivis Art Group in the early 1980’s to help her get the measure of her talent and build up confidence in exhibiting. Since those first days she has been closely involved in the evolution of the group into the Bevere Gallery as it is today...
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 Mike was originally a painter specialising in colourful acrylics
He says-
"In 2008 I began working with potter Richard Godfrey at his studio in Devon. Approaching ceramics as a painter, I started working with slips and was amazed by the whole process...
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 SANDY BROWN
Born in Tichborne, Hampshire and trained for four years in ceramics at Daisei Pottery, Mashiko, Japan, Sandy Brown has become an internationally recognised ceramic artist. Her organic forms and painterly decoration have been important features of the ceramic landscape for the last three decades...
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Alexandra says
"I have been exhibiting for over thirty years. Since moving to Ceredigion at the end of 2003, I’ve been concentrating on painting and pastels.
My work now centres on exploring the essence and pulse of the beautiful Welsh landscape, using colour and form to fire the imagination of the viewer."
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Dick Bruna (1927) is one of the few living Dutch artists to have achieved worldwide fame among young and old. He started drawing in 1940 and among the books he illustrated was the series entitled Zwarte Beertjes (Little Black Bears). Bruna has spent his later career developing his skills within the picture book genre, creating characters such as miffy...
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 “Adam has imposed on himself the strict discipline of the simplest and purest of geometric forms. Don’t expect his spheres of fired clay to be standoffish or predictable though.
Yes Adam makes white porcelain moon jars as chaste in their beauty as the old Korean dal-hang-a-ri vessels that first inspired him...
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 "All my work is individually hand crafted, thrown on a wheel and each piece totally unique.
I draw upon ideas and sources from ancient world history to create works with a sense of preciousness, grandeur and flamboyance."
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Recently the emphasis of my work has shifted from the sheds and fishing boats of Dungeness and Hastings to vessels of a different kind...
My work reflects the world around me, whether it be the places I visit, the contents of my fruit bowl, my ceramics collection or bits and pieces from the beach or garden...
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