Free John Maltby Prize draw - 24 October 2007

To express our appreciation of our VIP mailing list customers, we have selected a John Maltby ceramic sculpture to be given away through a free prize draw. Invitations have been sent out for our solo exhibition of the paintings of Martin Decent. Each invitation has a personalised card explaining the John Maltby offer. VIP Mailing List customers are being invited to bring their card into the gallery any time during November to be entered into the prize draw.  The draw will take place on 1 December which is the opening of our Christmas exhibition 'Chill'

"Figures and Rocks" by John Maltby, signed and dated 2006 and valued at £375

Born in Lincolnshire in 1936, John Maltby studied sculpture at Goldsmith's College, London. He worked with David Leach at Bovey Tracey from 1962-64. In 1964 he established his own workshop in Devon. Over the years John has gained a distinguished reputation for his distinctive ceramics. He has won numerous awards and his work features in many public collections, including the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, The Crafts Council, London, The State Collection, Belgium, and The Museum for Kunstegewerbe, Hamburg. Solo exhibitions include the V&A Museum, London, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Beaux Arts, Bath, Seibu, Tokyo, Galerie Krempl, Munich and the Museum of Modern Ceramics, Deidesheim.

John Maltby is a member of the Craft Potters Association and the British Crafts Centre. He is also Advisor to the Leach Archive at Holborne and of the Menstrie Museum, Bath. Since 1976 john Maltby has made only individual work, mainly in oxidised stoneware, often with enamel glazes. Recently the work has been mainly sculptural about English subjects and each piece is an evolution, one from the other. They are handbuilt, with coloured slip-glazes, and are usually fired three times.

The John Maltby free prize draw has been arranged to co-incide with the solo exhibition of paintings by Martin Decent which opens on Saturday 3 November 2007 and runs throughout November.

Martin Decent "Erosion of Memories"