Kevin Akhurst

Art disciplines: Ceramics

Kevin Akhurst has been making functional and decorative stoneware for twenty years, most of that time from his studio just outside Newbury. He prizes complex and subtle glaze effects and for the last ten years he has been using a wood-fired kiln, adding salt and soda to create and modify glazes. Many of his pieces are initially thrown on a wheel and then altered in shape. He likes to accumulate levels of complexity in his surfaces, which reveal their secrets slowly over multiple viewings.
Kevin is Chairman of West Forest Potters, a potters guild based in the area around Reading and Maidenhead. During the covid lockdown he made a video of a kiln firing for the members of West Forest Potters and put this on YouTube. To his surprise this video has now had 30,000 views, prompted correspondence from around the world and been used in tuition at Clay College.

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W: https://www.kevinakhurst.com
T: 01635 580592
E: kevin.akhurst@btinternet.com

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