Date: 3rd – 27th November 2011
Location: Oxfam Art Gallery, 10 Catherine Street, Salisbury, SP1 2DA
Artist: Eeles Family Potters

Simple ingredients used with rare skill, provide unusual results. Oxfam Art Gallery is extremely proud to be hosting this exhibition of ceramics members of the Eeles Family Potters from West Dorset. The Eeles Family; David, Patricia, Benjamin & Simon Eeles work as a team and make a wide range of ceramics by hand including stoneware, porcelain and raku. Using basic ingredients such as ball clay from near Poole in Dorset, china clay from South Devon and fine alluvial sand from West Dorset remarkable objects are created.

The work is individually decorated with a variety of clay slips, colours & glazes, which are prepared by the Eeles Family with extensive testing & firing to produce the complete range of textures & patterns that their work is renowned for. Their work is exhibited across Great Britain and many of their objects can be found in public and private collections throughout the world.

Entry to the gallery is free. Open 10am – 4pm Monday to Saturday. 25% of proceeds go direct to Oxfam’s vital work in combating poverty.

“It is always a delight to see the unique work of the Eeles Family Potters. Their unusual style sits beautifully in the gallery” Richard Eveleigh, Oxfam Art Gallery Assistant

You can find out more information about Eeles Family Potters at their website at http://www.eelespottery.co.uk