Eddie Curtis employs simple shapes and undecorated surfaces but the intense and varied nature of the copper red glazes precludes his ceramics being regarded as austerely minimalist. He wishes his work to ‘whisper, not shout’.

All the work is wheel thrown, some altered, beaten

or planed at various stages of the drying process.

With his wife Margaret, who is also a potter, they built their own down draft oil fired Kiln. In the latter part of the firing stages, a reduction atmosphere is maintained in order to achieve the elusive and lucid copper red colours, creating works of a singular character.

Eddie has been awarded bursaries from the Arts

Council England to travel. Trips to Japan since 1999 have contributed enormously to the development of his work. He has exhibitied extensively throughout the world.

Recently Eddie has been exploring the possibilities

of stoneware, which is a much coarser and gritty

clay to work with. This is evoking different intensions.

“Here, manifested in clay, the very substance of

landscape itself were fractals of mountains,

crags & fissures”.