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potters at the Old Forge

Anthony Abrahams

I throw stoneware pots, and concentrate on pots for domestic use, with a variety of decorative coloured glazes.

Nemo Chapman

Julia Dromgoole

Malcolm Moor

Adrian Moyes

Adrian took up pottery four or five years ago, under the tuition of Gill Hedge. He still regards himself as very much a beginner, relying on fellow potters at the Old Forge for help and advice.

In 2006 he helped to set up the Old Forge pottery workshop in Eynsham with Sue Raikes (see below). Currently he is experimenting with decals (like transfers) which he "paints" on his computer.

Sue Raikes

I manage The Old Forge Pottery on behalf of the sharers - and gain hugely from the experience and support of the group. I experimented with hand building for some time at evening classes then with Adrian "learnt" to throw at private lessons with a potter friend. I now do both.

The biggest challenge in the last couple of years has been to get to grips with the firing and glazing - I had no idea how many varieties and variables I would need to grapple with and we are still on the learning curve! These are two successful glazes that we have made up in The Old Forge.

Eva Smith

I have recently joined the Old Forge pottery which is a great space to extend my ceramic hours!

I have been going to pottery classes at Sunningwell School of Art for the past 9 years, as well as about 3 years also attending their Sculpture class with models.

I work in many different ways: handbuilding large abstract as well as more figurative pieces and sculptures; learning to throw and then (as in the photo),

engraving pots, altering them, adding bright glazes to parts etc. I love the process of working with clay (which can also be at times very frustrating when things go wrong: (regularly happens in this temperamental art form!) and often do so more instinctively and spontaneously, to see what happens, than with a specific plan.

I will join some other potters at the Old Forge in the Eynsham Art Weeks when anyone can come along and see what we're up to.

Ros Weatherall

I've been potting part time for years and years, but taking it seriously since completing an HNC in Ceramics in Oxford, two years ago. All my pots are thrown on a kick wheel, it's more environmentally friendly - except that firing the pots cancels this out.

I'm currently experimenting with using slip-trailing techniques to layer one glaze over another.

Denise Allen

I've been working with clay for nearly 3 years and everytime I settle down at the wheel I think about the words of a famous indian philosopher - Sri Aurobindo - 'Working with clay is a nameless movement, an uncaught idea, it is something that wishes but knows not quite how to be' and so I allow the clay to speak to me and dictate where I go with the form.