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[...] ware we sell in our shop and my contemporary work I exhibit across Wales. What has been your proudest moment? I feel a sense of privilege and pride being the eighth generation potter of the Jenkins [...]

[...] my appreciation of that luck has driven me not to waste the opportunity. What has been your proudest moment? For my work I have a moment frozen in my mind – I am standing in the bar at the top of a [...]

[...] I was shown how to make a 8 page fold book, even I can do 8 pages. What was your proudest moment? After I graduated I made a book called ‘Where’s My Dictator’ to send to art [...]

[...] my heart, made mistakes on the way and seized great opportunities What has been your proudest moment? Building my own website, launching my business – making it happen from scratch all [...]

[...] talk about their five favourite books accompanied by a photo of their shelves.... here are graphic designer and illustrator Supermundane's.... and here are mine... We always try and keep the shelves [...]

[...] receptionist for a magazine, page layout and design for a magazine, photographers assistant, graphic designer, waitress, lecturer in photography and art, tutor for young adults with learning [...]

[...] whilst growing up so it just seemed natural for me to become a potter. What has been your career path? I was taught to throw by my father and spent most of my childhood practising the craft in the [...]

[...] and it brings me joy to wear it in chilly London-evoking memories of India. What has been your career path? Pretty dogmatic. I worked exceptionally hard at school and college and dived straight in [...]

[...] printing in the darkroom; I was hooked – I have never looked back. What has been your career path? HA HA, the path I have been down did not have any signs on it there were clearly no [...]

[...] months back and I was awestruck. What makes you happy? Creativity. What's the best advice someone has ever given you? 'Keep two legs in one stocking' said my Grandmother.  I didn’t [...]

[...] you? Travelling. What makes you happy? My children and painting. What's the best advice someone has ever given you? Life is a game of inches. What advice would you give someone who is [...]

[...] ordinary, the smell of roses, making jam, simple pleasures really… What's the best advice someone has ever given you? My Nan she said that you can’t do anything without your health   [...]

[...] I love love love Rinko Kawauchi's photos, when you see them individually they don't have much power and always look a bit [...]

[...] on 5 favorites is tricky....so these are my go to books when I need some inspiration. 1. Rinko Kawauchi, Cui Cui I stumbled across this beautiful book while in Toyko years ago and immediately feel [...]

[...] : Society, Studio and Street which is on until 30 May. Not only are there some amazingly glamorous photos of filmstars and celebrities from the 1920s and 30s but Hoppé also took the most amusing [...]

[...] , to find out that Caitlin was an eighth generation potter and her family had been running Ewenny Pottery, famous for it's distinctive blue and brown mottled glaze, since the 17th century. She is one [...]

  I first met Caitlin Jenkins over 15 years ago in Cardiff where we were both studying for our Ceramics degrees. It was immediately clear that she [...]

[...] to throw by my father and spent most of my childhood practising the craft in the pottery along-side him. I studied Ceramics at Cardiff College of Art 1995–8 and the Royal College of [...]