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