Knucklas based potter Tony Hall is joining the exhibition with a range of his hand thrown stoneware using Tenmoku, Shino and ash glazes. Trained in La Borne, France Tony developed his career at Whichford Pottery in Warwickshire, where he was the chief thrower, before establishing his own pottery studio in the Welsh Marches.
Tony has combined his skill and knowledge with his abiding interest in Ash glazed stoneware. Tony blends his own materials; the ash is made from wood cuttings from the hedgerows, and he makes his own glazes.
The forms are elemental and austere, the decoration part of the body with glaze caught by indentations in the clay. Through a process of reduction and simplification his forms reference historic archetypes.
In 2014 Tony won The Society of Portrait Sculptors prize at the Sladmore Gallery.