Katherine Kingdon

fatbellypots

For all your ills,

I give you laughter

Rabelais

Each piece is full of character and storytelling. The figures seem to be caught mid action and a sense of playful ambiguity draws you in and challenges your imagination. The more you look, the more you begin to question, and that’s where the fun begins.


Katherine has a firm grounding in ceramics and teaching, making and mending and poking about in museums. She also keeps a lively sketchbook. All this feeds into her clay work. She studied 3D Design (Ceramics and Glass) at Leicester Polytechnic, has an MA  in Applied Art and Visual Culture from London Guildhall University and a PGCE from Westminster College, Oxford.


 ‘My work is a celebration of ‘in the moment’ creative decisions and storytelling. I like to leave an element of ambiguity in the surface imagery. To suggest a narrative, but to leave enough space for the viewer to dream’




GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Craft, Bath

Sota Gallery, Witney

Fitch and Fellows,Thame

Bluestone Gallery, Hay-on-Wye

Studio Vault, Settle

Byard Art, Cambridge

Cove Gallery, Weymouth

Brightwater Gallery, Alnwick



CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS 

Celebrating Ceramics, Waterperry Gardens    - 11th-13th July 2025

Open Studios WBNH - Studio open 16-19 May

INSIGHT at the Base - 10-26 May

September Ceramics 2025 - 18-28 Sept (Thur-Sun)


WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS & TALKS 

please contact the providers for details and to book

Clay Skills for Kids,  City Arts:

April/May

June/July


Clay Animals for Children, City Arts:

15 April 2025


Illustrated Pots, City Arts:

21 June 2025


Demonstration - Dacorum and Chiltern Potters Guild:

9th January 2026



I also take commissions for both sculptures and vessels (examples below).

All it takes is a chat, a few photos and some ideas about the people or theme involved.

Contact me to find out more.

Vessels Figures About