Join Clive Bowen in conversation with Mike Goldmark. Among other things, they talk about Clive’s early start as a painter, his apprenticeship with Michael Cardew, his love of music and improvisation and his success in Japan. We also see shots of his beautiful pots in situ at his Goldmark exhibition celebrating his 80th birthday.
Clive Bowen
Folk Roots, New Routes
Now in his 80th year, Clive Bowen ranks as the finest slipware potter working in Britain, feted in Japan and collected internationally. Alun Graves, senior curator at the V&A, takes stock of a career spanning over 50 years. For more than fifty years, Clive Bowen has made slipware at his pottery near Shebbear in north … Read more
Spontaneous Drawing
Geographically Clive Bowen seems more than appropriately sited as a potter – living and working at Shebbear, in the remoter Devon valleys near Great Torrington. He is close to where the great earthenware tradition of the North Devon coast once thrived, where he learnt to make pots at Michael Leach’s pottery at Yelland, and to … Read more
Documentary | Clive Bowen | Born, Not Made
Now in his early seventies, Clive Bowen is without equal in Britain as a maker of slipware. His pots are collected and used worldwide.
Filmed on location in Devon, this documentary follows Bowen as he prepares for his 2014 ceramics exhibition at Goldmark Gallery.
The film follows Bowen at work in his studio. It shows him throwing, glazing and decorating platters, jugs and store jars, press moulding tiles and opening his kiln.
Bowen discusses his life as a studio potter and the challenges involved.
Profile | Clive Bowen: ‘Born, Not Made’
To coincide with the arrival of a new batch of pots from Devon, we’re featuring our feature-length ceramics film on renowned slipware potter Clive Bowen as this week’s Profile.