Obituary: Other lives: Grahame Clarke

My father, Grahame Clarke, who has died aged 72, was a potter, Royal College of Art ceramics lecturer and collector. In a career spanning 50 years he founded two potteries, Highland Stoneware in Lochinver, Scotland, with two colleagues, and Grahame Clarke Porcelain, a solo venture, in Norfolk. He fo...

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Published inThe Guardian (London)
Main Author Clarke, Will
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London (UK) Guardian News & Media Limited 27.01.2015
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Clarke, Grahame
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Summary:My father, Grahame Clarke, who has died aged 72, was a potter, Royal College of Art ceramics lecturer and collector. In a career spanning 50 years he founded two potteries, Highland Stoneware in Lochinver, Scotland, with two colleagues, and Grahame Clarke Porcelain, a solo venture, in Norfolk. He focused on producing excellent, usable and entirely handmade tableware. In 1991, he set up Grahame Clarke Porcelain in a garden studio in Hadley Green, north London, before transferring to larger premises in East Tuddenham, Norfolk. Inspired by the historic and natural environment, his work combined the durable porcelain body, modelled on 17th-century Chinese pottery, with a free hand-painted style inspired by the Delftware and Lowestoft blue-and-white decorations of the 16th and 17th centuries.
ISSN:0261-3077