About Paul Philp (b. 1941)

Paul Philp has been making pottery for forty years. In the seventies he was a visiting lecturer at the Central School of Art in London and Bath Art School at Corsham. For the last twenty-five years he has lived a simple country life growing his own fruit and vegetables. He has also kept pigs and sheep and made his own bacon and ham. He finds that a reclusive life style helps him to concentrate on his work.

As well as developing his skills and ideas as a potter he has spent much of his time learning to build in traditional ways. He is also interested in literature, in ancient culture, oriental art, geology and the natural world and contributed articles to Ceramic Review International Magazine of Ceramics