Marshall Colman MSDC

Ceramics

About Marshall
Tableware and individual sculptural ceramics. Form, colour, practicality and the natural variability of the handmade all feature in his work. He is one of the leading UK makers of tin-glazed earthenware, drawing on the traditions of the Mediterrean, Holland and the Middle East. He is currently changing over his production to stoneware while retaining his interest in the colour typical of earthenware.
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Marshall has been making ceramics for over fifty years, first becoming interested in pottery while he was an undergradate at Keele University, near Stoke on Trent. He then trained with Judith Partridge at the Rodmell Pottery, where he learned the maiolica technique. After a break during which he worked in public administration, latterly as head of local economic development in an English local authority, he took a BA in Ceramics at Harrow, the University of Westminster, subsequently returning to full-time making. His studio in St Albans, Hertfordshire. He also writes about the history of design and the decorative arts.

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1946 - Born

1968 - BA (Hons) History and Politics, Keele University

1971-2 - Worked with Judith Partridge, Rodmell Pottery

1973-2006 - Worked in public administration

1997-2006 - Head of Economic Development, Welwyn Hatfield Council

2009 - BA (Hons) Ceramics, Harrow, University of Westminster

2009 to present - Studio in St Albans

2013 - Winner of the St Albans Museums Trust Prize

2017- Winner of the London Potters Judges Award

His work is featured in: Maiolica, Daphne Carnegy (2011); Contemporary Tableware, Linda Bloomfield (2013); and Surface Decoration, Kevin Millward (2016). His most recent publication is 'Resurrecting the Fame and Glory of the Chelsea figure: English Studio Pottery Modelling in the 1920s and 1930s', West 86th - A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2023.


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