Graham Fern - Porthleven Pottery

That swipe across the front of the pot is typical of Graham Fern's style of decoration,

Mark is the same, decoration is the same... no doubt.

Very nice large Graham Fern Bowl.

Can anyone help identify the potter here, please?







To my eyes, the mark looks like ST - Saint?

It stands about 24cm tall.

Many thanks,
Greenie

Thanks Naomi! Spot on as always.

Google images has a pot which, although a different shape, has very similar construction, decoration and stamp:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/175077504242359515/

I must confess I only bought it because it was very cheap but, sitting on our mantelpiece for the last 7 or 8 months, it has really grown on me.

Once again, thanks.

Google "Porthleven Pottery You Tube" to see a short video which includes Graham Fern at work.
Tim Chapman

Here's a vase that's just over 8" tall...

Scarce Fenella Fern pottery vase made at the Porthleven Pottery and I think she still uses this design in New Zealand. I have done some research below and I don't know how accurate the info is here as there is no history here regarding her time in the UK before Fenella and Graham left for Zew Zealand. So any input or corrections welcome.


New Zealand Potters


Waikato Society of Potters

The Waikato Society of Potters was formed in 1972.

The Society is a non-profit making organisation and the committee (all volunteers) meet once a month and consists of a President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary and committee members.

Members are from the greater Waikato and include people who are interested in pottery as a hobby, as well as professional, full-time potters. In addition there is a part time manager employed to oversee the studio facilities and arrange the teaching calendar.

Location

The Society’s rooms are located at Ward Park Art Centre, corner Ward Street and Seddon Road, Hamilton. Equipment for use by members includes electric kilns, one gas kiln, wood kiln, raku kiln, 12 electric potter wheels, a slab roller, extruders, glaze spray booths and moulds, library, office and kitchen area. Fenella in brackets.


Committee members
Wendy Thomson
Caryl Ginever
Gill Pritchard
Yasmin Davis
Susan St Lawrence
(Fenella Fern)
Burns Macaskill
Ron Pedder

Four small vases - each stands about 13cm tall...



...and three cylindrical vases, the tallest of which is about 25cm tall. The left one is unmarked.

potterymad62 wrote:Graham Fern pottery tankard. He set up his pottery in the small seaside town of Porthleven near Helston in Cornwall UK. The pottery was very short lived and I think ran through the 70s & early 80s and closed in the mid late 80s. His daughter Fenella also a potter, never seen or came across any of her pots. They closed the pottery and moved to New Zealand and a great friend of Norman Taylor of the Bolingey Pottery.

There's not much details & info on the pottery. However I still doing the research on the pottery. The tankard below is one of Graham's fine Soda Glaze designs & his gf base marks.

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I would just like to update the family relation between Graham & Fenella Fern. A while back on my blog page I wrote a short history on the Fern pottery, Porthleven. Not long after, a very close friend of the Fern family contacted me regarding some of the info in the blog. The information he gave me as follows, Fenella is Grahams daughter and not is wife. I have corrected the details above.

Thought I would just share this info with all here interested in the Fern Pottery.

Ernest

Hello

This vase is approx 11cm in height and has what appears to be a lower case 'f' on the bottom. Does anyone recognise? Thank you! Apologies that the pictures are to the side - I'm not sure why this has happened.

It's by Graham Fern for Porthleven Pottery Cornwall.

Thank you so much!

Pick up this nice piece of Graham Fern oil/vinegar cruet jug. I really like his wares, picked quit a few over the years.

See also Sonia Sjoholm’s thread. She worked as assistants to both Cheney and then Fern in the 60s-70s

https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t30520-sonia-sjoholm-porthleven

There are a dozen of Graham's pieces in the exhibition here in Taiwan...

Picked up this bowl today, now I'm very confident knowing my Graham Fern and his marks but would like some more opinions on the mark on this bowl, no Porthleven incised mark accompanying the gf. I have pencilled in for clearer view of the mark, Yes or No that's the question, cheers again.  

Looks right

Graham Fern, Porthleven. Graham’s gf mark

It looks like his daughter's decorated the jug going by glaze. Graham would make the pots and his daughter occasionally decorated them and sign the pots with an F for Fenella. She also throwed pots.