Antonio Campos is the last potter in Triana, a neighbourhood of Seville home to workshops which, at one point, produced skilled pieces of pottery for the four corners of the world. His workshop, the last one, is found, as it could be no other way, on Calle Alfarería (Pottery Street). He learned the trade in […]
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Miguel Ángel Torres, a master potter moulded since childhood
When he was just a boy, Cordovan Miguel Ángel Torres knew that he wanted to be a ceramist and a potter. Today, at the age of 50, he has the Master Artisan Card awarded by the Andalusian Government. He received this recognition in 2014. In his workshop in La Rambla, in the province of Cordova, […]
Baldomero García, artisan mastership to mould the future of pottery
He grew up surrounded by potter’s wheels, vessels and mud; and when he was only five years old, he began to play with what would become his profession and his passion, pottery. Baldomero García is part of the seventh generation of a potter family from Níjar, Almería. He claims that he is sad because there […]
Matthew Weir, unique pieces to reclaim the artistic status of pottery
More than 20 years ago Matthew Weir arrived to the village of Níjar, in Almería, from London. This artisan could have never imagined that he would find his professional future in the tradition of this place. Soon he got interested by the secrets of ceramics and learnt how to use the potter’s wheel in the […]