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A random selection of images of the potter, his pots and his processes.Â
Multiple thrown small lipped dishes.
Goblets thrown for his daughter's wedding celebration.
The display of ancient pottery replicas, 10 years ago!
Burnished and smoked wares and "axeheads".
One of many open bonfire firings of prehistoric replica pottery, these are beakers.
Some amphora vessels, not a line that caught on.Â
Display at the Artyfacts exhibition in 2004 at the Dorset County Museum, Dorchester.
At the Ancient Technology Centre, Cranborne, primitively firing pots in an open bonfire.
Back at the ATC, unloading a simple kiln made of turf.
Screwing the millennium ammonite to the wall in Bridport Arts Centre, made by members of the Dorset Pottery Group.
A radially brushed glaze decoration.
A batch of replica pots made for Bournemouth University's Archaeology Department.
A small soda fired jug, made at Corfe Castle. Decorated with a sprigged head.
Pots being lifted out of an actual Roman kiln, rebuilt at the Bestwall Quarry archaeological site. See more at https://www.beakerfolk.co.uk/activities/bestwall-bbw-firing
Raku fired globes 2011
Demonstrating to the public how to make urns at Ancient Wessex Network events.
A wall poster bio from a couple of decades ago.
An Upwey Potters poster from 2005
An ancient potter decorating a collared urn.
Acting dead for an American TV documentary!
An early version of a modern take on a "Maiden Castle War Cemetary Bowl" black burnished ware.
A crazy Raku fired urn.
Raku pots at a DVA event at Kingston Maurward House.
Birgit loading Woden.
A batch of beakers, thrown and fired in Woden, the wood fuelled kiln.Â
Health and Safety whilst firing the Raku kiln.
Opening the first firing of Woden.
Opening the fifth firing of Woden.
Raku firing at night.
Peter Woodward learning how to make urns.
An early publicity shot of the Upwey Potters.
The Upwey Potters, a few years on.
And few more years on...
A Dorset Evening Echo cutting from a few years ago!
Close up of the WC sealing wax stamp, found on all genuine pots!
One of the best teapots ever made in the beakerfolk style!
The Ridgeway Potters in action at Sculpture by the Lakes.
The Ridgeway Potters posing after a hard day's work!
Lucy's brilliant image of the raku treasure chest.
Naked Raku pots
Urns for cremations.
Pots thrown during annual Upwey Potters exhibition.
Soda fired vase
Sarah and Woden's chimney.
Richard loading Woden.
Nikki, the catering division.
Fame at Last!
Soda fired "costrel".
Pots made while at school.
Helping Jenny Hanrahan with pit firing.
Naked raku vases.
A still from an American TV documentary. These are the hands of a demented potter!
A batch of mortaria.
A clamp firing at Winterborne Monkton.
Neolithic pots made during project at Hambledon Hill.
A rare sighting of handles! Made to celebrate a birthday.
Replica pottery made for the Hengistbury Head Visitor Centre, complete with video of firing.
Urns being fired in a bonfire at the English Heritage Festival of History.
Diane tending the fire at Durrington Walls open day, during ground breaking archaeological dig.
The ancient sugar bowl.
Teaching pot making at an early Ancient Wessex Network event at Maiden Castle.
The next generation learning to throw at the age of 3.
An Upwey Potter hanging banner.
An artistic reassembled raku vase, open used as a donation collecting pot.
Hot Raku Pots. A much used publicity image!
A lock-down experimental piece, never to be repeated.
Burnished and smoked wares.
"Something Vaguely Flaglike" 2000 Dorset Art Week flag.
A jar fired at Bestwall Quarry dig, in a reconstructed Roman kiln.
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