Studio Pottery pot with lid by Ashley Howard

A studio pottery porcelain lidded pot with abstract design with printed potters mark to base by Ashley Howard (b.1963).

15.5cm high

Ashley Howard produces porcelain and stoneware vessels informed by a dialogue between Far-Eastern and homespun pottery traditions. The work draws on his interest in ritual vessels, the spaces they occupy and the ceremonies that surround them. Notions of reverence and transience are also explored in this work.

'The work of Ashley Howard remains extraordinarily fresh. He is an assured but rigorous explorer and celebrant of the past, clearly indebted to a variety of ceramics traditions, but he has been able to absorb these ideas into a very modern, resourceful and uncommonly free language of his own'. David Whiting.

Asley is a Fellow of Craft Potters Association, Trustee of the Farnham Pottery Trust and a Brother of the Art Workers Guild.