Marshall Colman Ceramics

Marshall Colman Ceramics Beautiful, handmade ceramics for the modern home. My award winning ceramics make a beautiful addition to the modern home or a unique gift with a personal touch.

My simple, elegant designs are made by hand and decorated with free, gestural brush strokes on tin glaze. I am one of the few ceramic artists in Britain using this old but challenging technique, which I learned at Harrow and the Rodmell Pottery, Sussex. My inspirations include abstract expressionist painting, 1950s textiles and old maiolica.

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29 Flint Way
Saint Albans

Telephone

01727 839659

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My Story

It started when I was nine on a rainy day in the school holidays. Looking for something to do, I browsed in my father’s encyclopaedia and came across an article, “Pottery for Use and Ornament.” The account of how it was made fascinated me. I went into the garden, smashed a flowerpot to dust, mixed it with water and wondered why I couldn’t make it into clay again. (I learned much later: the clay changes irreversibly in the kiln.)

Ten years later, studying history at Keele, near the North Staffordshire Potteries, I found an art room with a kiln and a pottery wheel and started to teach myself. Friends weren’t too happy with the lumpy mugs I gave them, but I’d decided that’s what I wanted to do.

After university, Judith Partridge took me on as an apprentice in her pottery near Lewes, where I learned all the processes of making, firing and decorating pottery. It was a tremendous experience, but it didn’t pay, so I took a long detour into public administration, eventually ending up as head of economic development at Welwyn Hatfield Council. But I kept up pottery in evening classes and built a studio at home.

After early retirement, I re-trained on the BA Ceramics course at Harrow, University of Westminster. Now I work full time in my studio in St Albans, still making pottery for use and ornament.