Tom Knowles Jackson
Tom creates a range of functional cook and serve ware for the table and home. His work is high-fired stoneware, using a carefully selected palette of glazes derived from iron, copper, and wood ash. Tom enjoys producing simple, enduring forms that are both functional and capable of enhancing the everyday rituals of eating, drinking, and sharing.
CR Masterclass by Tom Knowles Jackson. August 2023.
Based in St Chloe, a small village in the Cotswolds, Tom has been passionate about pottery since childhood. He began his training under Steve Sheridan at Bryanston School in Dorset.
He creates a range of functional cook and serve ware for the table and home. His work is high-fired stoneware, using a carefully selected palette of glazes derived from iron, copper, and wood ash. Tom enjoys producing simple, enduring forms that are both functional and capable of enhancing the everyday rituals of eating, drinking, and sharing.
All of his pots are made on a McMeekin Momentum wheel, focusing on functional stoneware for the table, oven, and sideboard, with an emphasis on the ceremony of eating and drinking. His vessels, containers, and forms are robust yet refined, often high-fired in gas reduction with wood ash, white, and tenmoku glazes, sometimes accented with expressive slip decoration.
In South Gloucestershire, Tom has established two open-access ceramic makerspaces: The Clay Loft near Stroud and Clay@The Fold, between Malvern and Worcester. After careers in the Army and in business across the Middle and Far East, he has returned to the enduring call of ceramics, dedicating his life to creating beautiful, useable pottery
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