Sutton TAYLOR

View in collection He was born in Yorkshire and trained as a teacher, he worked in Manchester before moving to Jamaica where he lived and worked.  He met the potters Cecil Baugh and Madge Spencer, and travelled Central America, Mexico and the USA until 1970, when he returned to England. He set up his first pottery in Yorkshire before moving to Leeds where he produced stoneware and porcelain and experimented with laminated clays. IN 1974 he set up a wood fired kiln back in Yorkshire and began to experiment with raku, low fired glazes and on-glaze pigment reduction using local clays and earth pigments.  He developed the ancient Persian technique of lustre, decorating pottery with metallic surfaces, and exhibited his first series of lustre pots in Leeds in 1976 and from then on, exhibited internationally.  He was the joint winner of the Grand Prix de la Ville de Vallauris 9th Biennale in 1984. He uses the landscape as inspiration for his work and lives and works in Cornwall.

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• Dates: b. 1943