When is a Teapot not a Teapot?
Oliver Kent2022-02-09T12:10:30+00:00As part of a short series exploring objects in the Collection, UWE History student Holly John reviews the work of potter Oliver Kent.
These exuberant teapots are a playful twist […]
Stradling Collection’s Automata on Antiques Roadshow!
Oliver Kent2021-06-16T14:51:35+01:00
Julia Donnelly spills the glass beads! All you need to know about lampworking
Oliver Kent2021-06-17T15:52:16+01:00Glass jewellery maker Julia Donnelly writes about the making of her delightful beads. Lampwork is an ancient skill and a process ideally suited to small workshop practice. Her work is featured in the […]
Getting Hooked on Glassblowing
Oliver Kent2021-06-14T16:43:17+01:00Our Christmas window show celebrates the potential of glass to brighten our lives. Not everyone knows our KSC Manager Julia Donnelly is also a glass-artist. Nowadays she makes glass jewellery – here she […]
Making Joy – Fire and Ice
Oliver Kent2022-03-04T19:59:55+00:00Making Joy – Fire and Ice is our latest Covid-19 safe, street viewable, show at the Stradling Collection in Park Row, Bristol. It is on from 17 December 2020 – 28 February […]
Form and Function: Geoffrey Whiting’s Teapots
Oliver Kent2021-06-14T16:44:30+01:00Geoffrey Whiting’s teapots are the forms for which he remains best known, having achieved a design that is at once highly functional, but also good to look at as a piece of working […]
Geoffrey Whiting: a potter and a painter
Oliver Kent2022-02-09T13:29:10+00:00Geoffrey Whiting had an important parallel activity as a watercolour painter, but this is a lesser known area of his art. His great knowledge of the natural world underpinned all his creativity. It […]
Geoffrey Whiting’s Candlesticks for Canterbury Cathedral
Oliver Kent2021-06-16T12:36:50+01:00You can find candlesticks made by Geoffrey Whiting in Canterbury Cathedral
It is always gratifying, but still all too rare when potters get major commissions. In 1982 Geoffrey Whiting was […]
A Pioneering Ceramic Studio
Oliver Kent2021-06-16T12:37:28+01:00Behind every successful man, there stands a woman.
A Pioneering Ceramic Studio
There is a very old and famous saying, ‘behind […]