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David Preston Ceramics Unique hand made ceramics from the heart of The Pennines. Shop on Etsy at DavidPrestonCeramics

09/10/2026

textured bowl with fractured rim.

A new kintsugi-style repair to a large vase. This clay is giving me a lot of headaches as the deep surface texture combi...
22/09/2026

A new kintsugi-style repair to a large vase. This clay is giving me a lot of headaches as the deep surface texture combined with an interior glaze (as the clay is porous) is creating tension during firing. So much so that the piece can’t withstand it. However it’s a great opportunity to use the kintsugi-style repair, which looks particularly good against the black clay. Repair resources from

I love the patterns that emerge when I burnish this clay. Hopefully I’ll get it fired in time for Leeds Indie Market on ...
18/09/2026

I love the patterns that emerge when I burnish this clay. Hopefully I’ll get it fired in time for Leeds Indie Market on the 27th. If not I have more lovely black pieces to take 🙂


05/09/2026

This humble little bowl now lives in the permanent collection at the National Coal Mining Museum. It looks quite modest, but the colour and pattern come from a completely natural accretion of ochre over a period of 4 months. I’ve been working with over the last year or so, to incorporate iron ochre (a waste product from the mine water treatment plant at the museum) into my ceramics. More of that to come later but for now this bowl was selected by SPARK’s (Wakefield’s Cultural Education Partnership), Youth Arts Ambassadors (YAAs) as part of the Fixing Our Broken Planet programme from the
It was chosen largely due to the honest, natural way the colour and pattern formed while it soaked for months in a lagoon of mine water at the museum; recycling and reusing a pollutant and waste product into something useful and aesthetically pleasing – win win!

Huge thanks to the staff at the museum for their help and support.

A kintsugi-style repair on this piece, which took exception to its 3rd firing and cracked through in multiple place. I s...
02/09/2026

A kintsugi-style repair on this piece, which took exception to its 3rd firing and cracked through in multiple place. I suspect it’s because one of the cracks I threw into it went all the way to the rim.

More Tetrapak on clay today with a new image from to play with. I’m trying a new method and have a few more ideas buzzi...
07/05/2026

More Tetrapak on clay today with a new image from to play with. I’m trying a new method and have a few more ideas buzzing around in my head too.

This Saturday 2nd of May is Print Day in May (11am - 2pm) HD7 6LSThere are print workshops, art/craft stalls and open s...
29/04/2026

This Saturday 2nd of May is Print Day in May (11am - 2pm) HD7 6LS
There are print workshops, art/craft stalls and open studios. I’ll be in my studio and will also have a selection of pieces for sale.

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Unit 11 Holme Mills West Slaithwaite Rd
Huddersfield
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