A 1930's Michael Cardew Winchecombe pottery vase of ovoid form with shallow flared rim decorated with a slip trailed band between incised borders over an ochre and terracotta ground, 1930 terracotta ...
"The last sane man" was a phrase used by Angela Carter to describe the potter, Michael Cardew. "Sane" in this context is associated with a simple life, and the ideal of the human as artist, art and ...
Seth Cardew, who has died aged 81, was a British studio potter who ran the Wenford Bridge Pottery in Cornwall. “My pottery is made to be used, not just collected,” said Cardew. It was an ethos he ...