Home of Stoneware & Porcelain

As a potter, teacher and designer for thirty years, my ideas for pots are based on images from travel and the immediate environment of my garden.

The study of plants and observations of their growth and habit; the actual leaf or stem and more general observations of decay and change of the seasons give ideas for pots and sculpture.

My aim is to make pots and sculptures which have the same complete ‘rightness' that is found in plants. Each plant has a structure and habit unique to it and any deviation from that would be immediately apparent. Containers for plants which relate in form, colour and texture to plants and their natural environment are a mainstay of my stoneware production. Some pots are about the material itself. How clay reacts to pressure when soft or hard is a recent theme.

Other work is about process; of the effect of smoke and fire on the clay; of shine and mat; opaque or transparent; thick or thin. I have made boxes for as long as I can remember. I like their covetable forms and the element of surprise when some ‘gem' is found inside. The location of the lid and the quality of the fit is of continual intrigue to me. Pots are made in series sometimes evolving over months or years.




Poplar Grove Summer Shows


 You and your friends are invited to

 

ALENTEJO BLUE

 

An exhibition of ceramics, collage and mixed media

 

New stoneware, garden sculpture and porcelain by Gordon Cooke

 

New collages by Ian Chapman

 

Mixed media work by invited artists

 

Priority booking for pottery courses

Including new walking and pottery courses in Portugal

Prizewinning garden              Free admission

 

PREVIEW : THURSDAY 31 MAY 7-9pm

 

The exhibition continues EVERY DAY until 10 June 2 -5 each day

 

17 Poplar Grove, Sale, Cheshire. M33 3AX

 

0161 969 9816

gordoncooke.ceramics@virgin.net or gordoncooke.ceramics@gmail.com

Image: Stoneware wall piece by Gordon Cooke 2012

Collage detail by Ian Chapman 2012

 

National Garden Scheme

 

CHARITY GARDEN OPENINGS

 

19 & 20 May 2-5 each day

£3.50  Children free

 

Home made Teas and Plants for sale

Please observe parking restrictions if attending on weekday afternoons

There is unrestricted parking in Clifton Rd (extension of Poplar Grove)







Porcelain, Stoneware & Garden Exhibitions