Sarah Rooms-Heaphy

Sarah Rooms-Heaphy, Hertfordshire, via Potfest 2023 at Compton Verney

Thanks very much for these photos Naomi. As ever at a lot of these shows, some very nice work. I wonder if we are seeing any stars of the future here?

I think there are some worthy replacements for the old guard of Malone, Dodd and Bayer. And exciting new work from James Hake, Tim Copsey and Sarah Rooms Heapy. Christy Keeney is on my wish list. A couple of new names I’d been following online but they work ‘in the flesh’ was disappointing; not enough practice throwing, or way overpriced. 
Iit’s a shame there’s no ‘unifying’ show like Hatfield Art in Clay any more. Instead there are now 8 Potfests around the country; I hope they rotate the potters so we don’t have to travel too far to see them all.