Kevin has now been potting for over 35 years. Following four years training at Leek School of Art he took up a position at Cooper's Pottery in Cheshire, where he worked producing a range of domestic stoneware in a traditional Leech style. Twelve months later he moved to the world famous Gladstone Pottery Museum where he spent the next three years producing a range of traditional terracotta garden ware and domestic ware and faithful reproductions of Staffordshire Slipware and during this time he had the privilege of working alongside David Leech.

Kevin then moved to Harrison Mayer, now known as Potterycrafts, as Craft as Technical Advisor where he worked for three years travelling throughout the UK and Europe promoting Studio Ceramics and acting as a problem solver to individuals, studios and educational establishments. Kevin then set up a studio producing a range of ceramics which has encompassed functional domestic ware, large scale wood fired, salt glazed style garden ware and more recently a range of decorative cream earthenware bowl forms.

However, he is probably best known for his teaching seminars and workshops on all aspects of ceramics. Over the last twenty four years Kevin has taught on B A Honours and M A courses at many of the country's leading universities. He is at present a visiting lecturer at Bucks New University, High Wycombe. Kevin's virtuosity on the wheel, his speed and vitality stand out and many people regard him as one of the finest throwers in the country, whether it be domestic ware, large scale garden ware or thrown and altered forms. He works with a wide range of clays, from coarse hand building to fine porcelains and has provided demonstrations for most of the major suppliers in the UK, as well as most of the potters groups such as Midland Potters, Northern Potters and London Potters, where he is a great favourite, having run three one week workshops and countless one day seminars.

At his workshop, Kevin has been involved in the post-graduate training of students from the United States, Europe and Japan and he has also mentored many of the country's leading potters. This will be his first seminar for North Wales Potters, but some of you will have already seen Kevin demonstrating at Clay Art in Denbigh for Valentine Clays or at the festival of fire two years ago organised by midland potters.

Kevin will be demonstrating a whole range of throwing techniques from domestic through to contemporary altered forms in a range of different clays. If you would like to see a wide range of making and decorating techniques on the wheel, then this is the demonstration for you.