Ashley Howard
February 19th, 2019
Ashley Howard studied at Medway College of Art and Design. He built a career combining teaching with making. Howard sees his own research and teaching as one role, each contributing to the other. Howard later studied for his Masters at the Royal College of Art. He has exhibited, demonstrated and lectured all over the world, spending considerable time on solo and collaborative projects in Japan and China. Howard has published articles on technical and aesthetic subjects. His achievements on the national and international stages are recognised though his membership of the International Academy for Ceramics. Howard is represented by JJ Rawlin. Writer and critic, David Whiting has said of Howard; The work of Ashley Howard remains extraordinarily fresh. He is an assured but rigorous explorer and celebrant of the past, clearly indebted to a variety of ceramic traditions, but he has been able to absorb these ideas into a very modern, resourceful and uncommonly free language of his own.
Shibani Radway
February 14th, 2019Shibani is originally from the North-East, spending much of her childhood making clay mice, while her mother made pots at the local studio. She has lived in Farnham for the last 10 years & has a long career in marketing and communications. She is currently a consultant to a variety of types of businesses and local community groups & wished to use this expertise’s the context of a trustee.
Kathy Mason
February 14th, 2019
Kathy Mason is a teacher, community artist and maker specialising in hand building and Raku firing. Teaching at 318 Ceramics and West Street Potters,.
A founder member of The Farnham Pottery Trust, working along side Ashley Howard, Tony Cohen and Ann Watson.
Graduating from West Surrey College of Art and Design now U.C.A. with a BA (Hons) in 3.D. Design Ceramics, she also has worked with local schools on projects as well as taking on private commissions and she values clay and fire as dynamic tools to energise peoples creative spark.