Ramms Yard, 25 Earsham Street, Bungay, Suffolk NR35 1AF
Telephone: 01986 892685     Email: Clive Davies Pottery

Clive Davies has been working in his new studio at Ramm's Yard for about eighteen months. The conversion of studio & house was completed over a period of two years, working in concentrated spells.

Clive has been a potter for nearly forty years. During that time he has shown his pots in many exhibitions in the UK and abroad. He works with fine textured stoneware clay that is fired in a gas kiln to a temperature of 1300c.

Jugs, bowls, plates and mugs of various sizes are produced and decorated with a variety of coloured patterns. He will design & make fountains small or large to commission and other sculptural pieces.

After the bisque firing

Decorated and awaiting firing

Clive explains:

"I use a fine pale stoneware clay, very smooth and a delight to work. The pots are bisque fired. Base glazes are applied by dipping and pouring after which various coloured glazes are used over to create a range of patterns and effects.

To achieve this I use wax resist, brushes, rollers and sponges. The decorated wares are finally fired to 1300 centigrade in a reducing atmosphere to produce distinctive flowing colours. Decorating the pots is like a continuous experiment, one set of patterns and colours suggesting and nudging, urging on others".

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Inside the kiln

Just a few finished items

About Clive

"By the time I had finished National Service in 19621 knew two things; one was that I was unemployable and two that I was creative, but being untrained, I had no direction and was frustrated. Change came when two friends introduced me to ceramics. In a very short time I gave up my employment rented a cottage in rural Suffolk and became self-employed.

I threw myself obsessively to learning everything I could about pottery I progressed. By 1973 I became a full member of the Crafts Potters Association I developed a range of domestic ware which was plain and simple and finished in a celadon glaze. This work sold well for many years at David Mellors and similar outlets. In 19801 went to the Dordogne set up a small wood firing pottery. This marvellous experience gave me a different aspect on ceramics. On returning to England a year later, I was resolved to serious change. I made a new clay body; fine and smooth and developed coloured glazes to fit. I am fascinated with pattern and colour".

Many different forms of Clives pottery

Various patterns and colours

Exhibitions:
C.PA., Heals, Norwich Castle Museum. Barclay Craft, Yoxford Gallery, Rufford, Aldeburgh Festival, Aspects London, Oral 31 Welshpool, Ceramics 7Greenwhich, JK Hill Fulham, Jonathon pool Gallery, Bath Arts Fair, St James Gallery Bath, Cornwall Gallery, St Ives Gallery, Aberystwyth University, Lancaster University, South Bank Centre London, Manchester Royal Exchange, Bluecoat Display Centre Liverpool, Fermoy Gallery, Boxford Gallery Suffolk, Terrace Gallery Worthing, Round House Gallery Burton on Trent, Crafts Galerie Viena, Crafts Co Southwold, Keramikmuseet Grimmerhus Danmark

Collections in:
U.S.A. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Greece, Japan, Thailand, & India.

Occasional teaching at Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Harrow & Croydon. I was a council member of the Craftsmen Potters Association.