Mike Dodd

by **Potty** June 9th 2013, 9:37 pm

Works mainly in stoneware, producing mostly functional pottery.

Here is a jar (believe it may be considered a "Caddy") from my collection:

Mike Dodd 111

Ash (I believe) glazed stoneware.

I can't show a picture of the mark as it is mostly obscured by the glaze.

More info here:

http://mikedodd.sefol.com/

by **skipposal** June 9th 2013, 9:56 pm

Nice one - love his work too. Got this sizeable piece off ebay last year - ash glazed stoneware 13cm (height) 22cm (diameter), made c1994.

Mike Dodd Id145_10

by **Potty** June 9th 2013, 10:03 pm

Nice bowl, thanks for adding the mark. Most Excellent

by **studio-pots** June 9th 2013, 10:44 pm

Hope that you don't mind me removing "Somerset" from your title Potty but the lad has moved about during his career i.e. various places in Sussex, Cornwall, Peru (west of Cornwall), Cumbria and Dorset before finally settling in Somerset in 1999.

Another point to make is that it is not uncommon for Mike's impressed seal to be covered in glaze, as with the lidded jar above. Therefore if a pot looks like Mike's and the seal is obscured it is likely to be his work.

by **Potty** June 9th 2013, 10:49 pm

No problem SP Happy

by **philpot** June 10th 2013, 5:51 pm

Mile Dodd wrote an autobiography in 2004.published in hardback form by Canterton Books. Entitled AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SORTS.Excellent book,with many fine photographs.
The famed Goldmark gallery have also held several exhibitions of his work,with accompanying catalogues superbly illustrated.Well worth getting hold of. There are also several videos on their website,including several of him talking about his pots,and especially this 23 minute special film on Mike Dodd and his pots.
http://www.goldmarkart.com/scholarship/mike-dodd-potter-film/

Mike Dodd of course is always talked of in the same light as that trio of leading post-war Leach style potters.Phil Rogers,Jim Malone and Mike Dodd. It is an ever interesting on-going debate,as who is the best potter.

by **studio-pots** June 10th 2013, 11:17 pm

A large yunomi/small teabowl

Mike Dodd Dark_t11

by **studio-pots** June 10th 2013, 11:19 pm

Something a little different.

by **studio-pots** June 10th 2013, 11:21 pm

Waiting for Doddy....

Mike Dodd Img_0710

by **studio-pots** June 10th 2013, 11:24 pm

by **philpot** July 23rd 2013, 9:29 am

I must agree with Studio-Pots about Mike Dodd's signature. Never had a potter with so many in-filled glaze signatures. I have several of his pots,and they nearly all have this fault. This is probably the best signature.but still not perfect.

Mike Dodd 03810

by **studio-pots** March 2nd 2014, 11:43 am

Found another of those textured vases under the house. This one is around 33cm tall.

Mike Dodd Dodd_t10

by **NaomiM** March 22nd 2016, 4:26 pm

Mike Dodd chawan

Mike Dodd Image189

by **philpot** April 25th 2017, 9:47 pm

The Mike Dodd Goldmark film quoted in 2013 is now to be found on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKvjOeYWIn8

by **dantheman** April 25th 2017, 11:38 pm

very thought provoking
thanks Phil

by **philpot** March 2nd 2018, 4:15 pm

He does do a very nice Chawan

by **Potty** March 2nd 2018, 5:45 pm

by **philpot** December 22nd 2018, 8:45 pm

by **Davee** August 3rd 2019, 3:35 pm

Bowl with incised and painted decoration, has an impressed mark but I really can't make it out. Depending on which way you look at it gives different results!!!!

hoping somey will recognise the style or he able to decipher the mark.

by **NaomiM** August 3rd 2019, 4:37 pm

Lovely bowl. Maybe Mike Dodd?

by **Davee** August 3rd 2019, 5:16 pm

The quality of the throwing, form and decoration suggest a serious potter. I have emailed Mike to see if he can help. Thanks for the suggestion Naomi. Happy

by **philpot** August 3rd 2019, 5:57 pm

Is there an MJD there tho? Mike Dodd of course does produce a lot of glaze included pottery. Is that obvious here?
A straight M is early Mary Rich? No., too sophisticated Leach style. Then there is Mickey Schloessingk. Wood fired, but not so much Leach style. Certainly a possibility.

by **NaomiM** August 3rd 2019, 6:31 pm

I think there’s a J or Y in the middle, as a monogram rather than separate letters, which could rule out Mike Dodd

by **Potty** August 4th 2019, 5:13 am

Looks like Dodd to me.

by **Davee** August 4th 2019, 5:22 am

There is definitely a long tailed letter in the centre of the mark, hopefully I will get an answer to my email. Either way IMO it's a really good piece that's going to be a keeper.

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