Stephen Parry

Couple of wood fired bottle vases by Stephen Parry, 2015.
He said the first is fired on shells, and that the spiky bits on the second one mirror the peaks found on wind blown sand in his native Norfolk.

Here's my one Naomi :

Stephen Parry guinomi, Oxford Ceramics Fair, 2017

These days I don't buy as much pottery as in the past but I thought that I ought to start this thread, as last year during a visit to Norfolk we called in on the potter, Stephen Parry.


Stephen trained at Dartington in the late 1970s and since 1981 he has been making stoneware plus some porcelain pots that he wood fires at his pottery at Little Ryburgh near Fakenham.


He's his mark




Entwined S and P with a dot.

Here's a mug that Stephen made, which has become my "mug of choice" for when I drink real coffee.




It is stoneware with ash glazes and generally speaking wood-firing gives a "zing" to a glaze that isn't found when fired with gas or electric.

I also bought a wood-fired teabowl, which was made using a different stoneware body and was fired unglazed, with the glaze and ash built up from the wood used during the firing.

These were at the London Contemporary Ceramics shop in May 2017.