John GIBSON

View in collection Born in Sheffield, he studied ceramics at Chesterfield College of Art and Design in the mid 1970s. He set up ˜The Countryard Pottery" in Matlock, Derbyshire, with fellow student Josie Walter (1977). His work consists predominantly of domestic tableware using a range of decorative procedures such as brushwork, sgraffito, sponge stamping, slip and resist. Gibson works in Potclays standard porcelain and his decorative influences stem from a variety of sources from the textile designs of traditional Japanese kimonos to Victorian Pottery or Science Fiction stories. He is a member of the Craft Potters Association and in 1987 published "Pottery Decoration: Contemporary Approaches", London, A & C Black.  John Gibson lives and works on the island of Bornholm in Denmark where he is the director of the School of Ceramics and Glass.

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• Dates: b.1952