Contemporary British Studio Pottery - 2023

I'm very pleased to be included in Ashley Thorpe's @pjwe111 latest book - I'm honoured to be surrounded by the very best ceramic artists in the UK today, all of which I admire. Thanks.

Chapter Twenty-Two of “Contemporary British Studio Pottery: Forms of Expression” looks at the work of @timcopseypottery:

“Copsey’s pots are not a glib celebration of the rural idyll. Instead, they are suggestive of a more nuanced human interaction with nature that is almost anthropological in its investigation. His forms express the taut relationship between man-made constructions – be they brick houses or capstone walls – and nature’s complicated, often ambivalent, response to the human piercing of its crust. In this sense, Copsey’s manipulation of clay speaks to the manipulation of the land, whilst his surfaces document sensory experiences of the Peak District landscape, the living matter that grows upon the surface of the clay earth. These documents of experience include not only nature’s serene beauty, but also its uncompromising hostility. Copsey’s work perches on the ‘liminal outskirts of the town’, between the safety of the hearth and the appeal of the wilderness. Refusing to side with the urban or the rural, Copsey’s work conjoins the two in all its contradictions. These are, therefore, very modern pots. For if the twenty-first century has taught us anything, it is that our contemporary relationship with nature is, at best, mired in ambivalence.”