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September Ceramics 2025

Exhibition dates:
Thu 18 Sep to Sun 28 September
Opening Times: 10 am to 4pm
Thursdays to Sundays
Friday 19 September 2025 – 6pm to 8pm (by invitation)

We are delighted to host September Ceramics 2025 at City Arts Newbury!
Organised and curated by Katherine Kingdon, the show is a themed exhibition which takes advantage of our building’s great sense of light and space.

Stallholders are selected from amongst our local ceramicists and potters. This year they will also be bringing their choice of pieces for our ‘Up and Coming’ makers competition.

Prizes are kindly donated by City Arts Newbury, Scarva Pottery Supplies, Bluematchbox Pottery Supplies and Ugly Duckling Pottery Painting Café, with awards for both the stall holders and the Up and Coming makers

Demonstrations, meet the makers and taster sessions take place on Fridays and during the weekends – check full details nearer the time..

EXHIBITORS 2025

In 2025 we welcome the following ceramicists to September Ceramics: Katherine Kingdon, Lizzy McCracken, Ally Keeling, Susie Pots of Hope, Leah Blake, Anne Dalton, John Brazendale and Cait Gould.

Katherine Kingdon

With a playfulness that starts in her sketchbook, the gentle, enigmatic humour of Katherine’s ceramics sets you up for a daydream

A whimsical teapot featuring colorful illustrations of a child with curly hair, set against pastel colors, with a decorative lid topped by a small figure.
Three ceramic mugs featuring illustrated figures in colorful attire, showcasing playful designs and a textured surface.
A collection of ceramic vases and vessels featuring playful illustrations of people in vibrant colors, showcasing various shapes and textures.
A whimsical ceramic sculpture of a seated figure with a smiling face, wearing a red shirt and gray pants, atop a stack of books. The figure has a distinctive, textured head resembling a rocky formation.
Ally Keeling

My work is developed using hand building techniques and is fired to stoneware. I am interested in the relationship between form, textural surface, pattern and colour, distilling visual impressions from my surroundings.

A round ceramic vase with a textured surface in shades of gray and blue, featuring a small green plant emerging from the top.
Close-up of six ceramic vessels with unique surface patterns and openings on top, showcasing a mix of colors and textures.
Anne Dalton

Anne creates designs inspired by nature and uses them to decorate many of her thrown forms, She also likes to contrast surface textures on a single form by leaving significant areas unglazed.

John Brazendale

My recent ‘Clay Paintings’ resulted from drawings made of Hillside Villages in Wales and Italy. Work this year has been based on more local themes, Donnington Castle and various imaginary West Berkshire landscapes.

A ceramic container with a rounded body and an orange-pink glaze, featuring a lid topped with small sculptural forms resembling hills or buildings.
Framed ceramic artwork depicting a landscape with houses and water in abstract colors of blue, green, and red.
Framed ceramic artwork depicting a landscape with a castle and trees, characterized by colorful glazes and textures.
Ceramic container in a glossy blue glaze featuring a lid shaped like a stylized tree.
Ceramic pot and a matching dish featuring a castle design, both with a warm, earthy glaze.
Lizzy McCracken

Since studying ceramics at Uni in Bath my love of making functional pottery continues. I like to throw on the wheel as well as a little hand building. My colour palette, clays and glazes are fairly traditional, cobalt blue and white tin glaze being firm favourites. For decoration, I mostly use a scraffitto technique to create designs inspired by the countryside local to me, scratching back through oxide colours to reveal the clay beneath.

Two decorative ceramic plates with intricate blue and white patterns, one featuring elongated shapes resembling onions and the other with circular and leafy designs.
A collection of hand-crafted ceramic pieces displayed on wooden shelves, featuring various patterns and colors, including blue and white designs.
Pots of Hope, Susie

My ceramics carry mantra to support wellbeing; each piece is a meditation, cherishingly prepared, centred and shaped as a metaphor of ‘hope’. Inspired by sharing the mindful, humbling process of aligning clay, I am immersed in combining the transformation of the four essential elements into objects of function and beauty.

Leah Blake

My work is based on animals and nature, I create sculptures by combining the techniques of hand building and throwing.  I incorporate impressions of fossils and textures gathered and inspired by nature, my materials are stoneware clay, oxides, stoneware glazes and lusters.

Cait Gould

Cáit enjoys playing with clay to create elegant forms to be used and enjoyed in your home. Her practice balances beauty with utility, bringing warmth and intention to the objects we live with. She divides her time between teaching clay classes, spending time with her young family and making work from her local Newbury studio.

Three ceramic figurines styled as animals, featuring a bear on the left, an owl in the center, and another bear on the right, all adorned with blue and white glazes.
A ceramic pitcher with a white glaze, featuring detailed blue illustrations of mountains and a train on a viaduct.
A collection of ceramic vases and pots with a glossy white finish, featuring green drip glaze accents, arranged on a wooden display rack.