David Roberts
Black on Black Vessel ,
Raku fired ceramic
David Roberts
For the past two decades English Ceramicist, David Roberts has devoted himself to the making of large coil built and Raku fired vessels.
David Roberts is one of the first British ceramacists to specialise in high quality contemporary Raku, the making of which he has helped popularise, as a serious discipline within contemporary British ceramics in the many exhibitions, workshops and demonstrations he has held throughout the UK, Europe and the USA.
David Roberts lives and has his studio in the Yorkshire Pennine mill town of Holmfirth.
His work investigates the clay bodies interaction with smoke-marking and deep carbonisation. The resulting vessels are strongly evocative of David’s increasing engagement with the natural world and the contours and stratification of stone and landscape