Pottery page
As a hobby Eveline and I run a pottery from a shed in our back garden. We initially met on a pottery course in France and since then have set up potteries in two homes in Reading, one in Somerset and now finally in Hampshire. This web site contains out curriculum details and pages containing pictures of pots we have made. We will add to and expand the range of photographs as time goes on.
Eveline Chamberlain
Eveline's interest in clay began with pottery evening classes in Holland, where she then lived. These inspired her to train as an apprentice at pottery "De Vogelpot" in Utrecht before setting up her own workshop in Schalkwijk. In 1991 she married an English potter, Tom Chamberlain, with whom she now shares a pottery workshop and two children in Hampshire.
She throws domestic type pottery in white or flecked stoneware and occasionally porcelain. She also likes to do some figurative work in raku. All work is gas fired in reduction to up to 1300 C. Work is glazed with a range of crystalline glazes.
Eveline finds inspiration in the elegance and natural fluency of Art Nouveau and Jugendstil, but also in the mathematically precise unending movement of Celtic knot work, which she uses to decorate leather hard pots.
She and her husband sell their work through Art and Craft shops and at Art fairs.
Tom Chamberlain
| I was initially drawn to clay at school where through many
hours of self-teaching he learnt to throw on the wheel. He set up his first
pottery in 1989 in Reading where he started making domestic stoneware. Over
the years he has moved the pottery several times and developed his skills
through attended short courses. In 1991 he was elected a full member of the
Craftsmen Potters Association and from 1990 to 1992 he was chairman of the
West Forest Potters Guild.
He now makes domestic pottery using white stoneware fired in reduction to 1300'C in a gas kiln. Pieces are glazed with white or coloured base glazes decorated with over-glaze trailing and painting. Decorations are inspired by plant material in the garden. Work is continually evolving with test glazes and test pieces in most kilns. The aim is to make work that can be used, enjoyed and admired. |
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The pottery process
A collection of pictures showing different parts of the making process, the kiln, wheel and other equipment, to the pots being thrown and then decorated and finally fired in the gas kiln.