A List of Ceramic Artists

Here is a list of some ceramic artists I found while surfing Pinterest. Feel free to use them in your Artist of the Week blog posts.

Adam Field
Hsinchuen Lin
Mike Dodd
Ann Van Hoey
Hsin-Yi Huang
Pilar Wiley
Jun Kaneko
Wendy Hoare
Alyson Cook
Peter Christian Johnson
Penelope Withers
Mel Griffin
Renee Brown
Katharine Morling
Warren MacKenzie
Margaret Kinkeade
Rachel Boxnhoim
Beatrice Wood
Mark Peters
Gail Kendall
Chris Staley
Kate Malone
Lesley D McKenzie
Diana Fayt
Gary Jackson
Fenella Elms
Ah Leon
Terri Kern
Terry Hogan
Marge Margulies
Ryota Aoki
Joanna Mozdzen
Laura McNamara
Karen Karnes
Nathalie Choux
Judit Varga
Greg Payce
David Burnham Smith
Nuala O’Donovan
Sakiyama Takayuki
Tanoue Shinya
Ute Grossman
Beryl Hole
Sally & Neil MacDonell

MORE Ceramic Artists

 15th Century

Luca Della Robbia, Italy – relief

Donato di Niccolo Bardi – portrait busts

Donatella, Italy – portrait busts

Andrea del Verrocchio, Italy – portrait busts

 

16th Century

Chojiro, Japan – tea bowls

Andrea della Robbia, Italy – Madonna and child

Cipriano Piccolpasso, Italy – first glaze book? L’arte della ceramica secondo

Bernard Palissy, France – relief platters, added texture

 

17th Century

Pierre Chicaneau, France – dutch blue

John Dwight, England – earthenware jugs, busts

David Elers, England – red, functional, raised textures

Sakaida Kakiemon, Japan – classic, colorful glazing on white

Louis Poterat, France – dutch blue

Ri Sampei, Japan – classic vases

 

18th Century

Johann Friedrich Bottger, Germany – porcelain figures

Franz Anton Bustelli, Germany – porcelain figures

Johann Joachim Kandler, Germany – porcelain figures

Peter Reiniche, Germany – porcelain figures

Josiah Wedgewood, England – greek-like vessels, relief surfaces

 

19th Century

Charles Avisseau, France – platters and sculptures with detailed textures, natural scenes

Ernest Chaplet, France – earthenware bowls and urns, pitted glaze

Theodorus Colenbrander, Belgium – vessel, intricate glazes

William Frend De Morgan, England – early Arts Deco, William Morris

Albert Dammouse, France – bowls, vivid blues

Theodore Deck, France – early Japanese style

Paul Gauguin, France – bowls with wrapped figures and animals

James Hadley, England – figurines

Ogata Kenzan, Japan – tea bowls, rustic

Ogata Korin, Japan – tea bowls, silk paintings

Arnold Krog, Denmark – watercolor-like surface

Pietro Krohn, Denmark – dutch blue, silk screen?

Berta Nathanielsen, Denmark – porcelain

Alf Wallander, Sweden – vases, sculpted surfaces

Jules-Claude Ziegler, France – vessels, sculpted surfaces

 

20th Century American

William Grueby – jade pottery

Adelaide Alsop Robineau – vessels, sculpted surfaces (Slab)

George E. Ohr – structured and collapsed wheel pieces (Wheel)

Viktor Schreckengost – blue and black sgraffito

Robert Arneson – whimsical self-portrait busts (BIO)

Rudy Autio – organic forms with figurative painting

Clayton Bailey – “head” jars and whimsical sculptures

Frank Boyden – pit fire/soda ash earthenware

Tom Coleman – altered wheel pieces

Val Cushing – wheel, repeated patterning on surfaces

William Daley – large-scale vessels, geometric

Stephen de Staebler – totemic work

Ruth Duckworth – abstract vessels, porcelain

Mary Frank – figurative works

Ken Ferguson – altered wheel, footed vessels

Viola Frey – colorful large-scale figures

Andrea Gill – cubist vase forms, intricate surfaces

David Gilhooly – whimsical frog sculptures (BIO)

Maurice Grossman – “head” jars, rustic

Maija Grotell – wheel, structured glaze patterning

Vivika and Otto Heino – wheel, pit fire

Tony Hepburn – large-scale abstract sculptures

Wayne Higby – landscape inspired pottery

Richard Hirsch – earthenware, pit fire

Jun Kaneko – monumental portrait busts, abstracted, patterning

Karen Karnes – altered wheel thrown pottery

Susan and Steven Kemenyffy – figurative glaze work

Lucy Lewis – classic Native American pottery

Warren Mackenzie – wheel, soda ash

Maria Martinez – coil, highly burnished, pattern (BIO)

John Mason – abstract, geometric sculptures

Jim Melchert – tiles and masks

Ron Meyers – incised surfaces, rustic

Ron Nagle – abstract, colorful sculptures (BIO)

Otto Natzler – wheel, balanced foot

Dennis Parks – raw glazing and oil firing

Susan Peterson – wheel vessels

Kenneth Price – abstract sculptures, geometric meets organic (BIO)

Don Reitz – altered wheel, primitive

Daniel Rhodes – ancient inspired pottery

Jerry Rothman – Bauhaus/Baroque

Richard Shaw – trompe l’oeil , hyper-realism (BIO)

Kataro Shirayamadani – vases, glaze control, crystalline

Paul Soldner – abstracted, rustic, primitive

Robert Sperry – “cracked” sgraffito

Toshiko Takaezu – large, bulbous vessels

Robert Turner – altered wheel, rustic

Peter Voulkos – large-scale totems, primitive (BIO)

Patti Warashina – disproportioned figures

Kurt Weiser – vessels with figurative glazing

Marguerite and Frans Wildenhain – soda ash fire

Beatrice Wood – wheel thrown, metallic

Betty Woodman – altered wheel thrown, Matisse-like glazes

Elsbeth Woody – large-scale organic forms

 

20th Century English

Alison Britton – complex slab work, vessels and pitchers

Alan Caiger-Smith – wheel, free-brushwork glaze

Michael Cardew – pottery, simple glazing

Michael Casson – pottery, simple glazing

Hans Coper – minimalist vessels (Noguchi-like), altered wheel thrown vessels

Jill Crowley – abstracted human forms

Harry Davis – functional pottery

Bernard Leach – pottery, simple glazing (BIO)

David Leach – pottery, fluted sides

Janet Leach – pottery, altered, rustic glazes

Magdalene Odundo – warped vases, high gloss

Lucie Rie – wheel thrown vessels with wide rims and small feet

Mary Rogers – “scrunched” vessels

William Staite Muray – pottery, simple glazing

 

20th Century European

Josep Llorens Artigas, Spain – pottery, graceful forms

Arne Ase, Norway – intricate surfaces

Mac Chagall, France – painting style on platters and vessels

Antoni Gaudi, Spain – mosaics with architecture

Josep Maria Jujol, Spain – mosaics with architecture

Pierre Caille, Belgium – pottery, tiles, Dada (Miro-like)

Lisa Larson, Sweden – cat pottery

Joan Miro, Spain – painting style on vessels

Pablo Picasso, Spain – altered jugs, with painting style (BIO)

Gilbert Portanier, France – abstract glazing

Georges and Suzanne Ramie, France – 1950s pottery

Georges Rouault, France – painting style on pottery

Axel Salto, Denmark – vessels with rich texture! (BIO)

Lilo Schrammel, Hungary – abstract sculptures, minimal

Alev Siesbye, Denmark – bowls, turquoise glazing

Heidi van Veen-Kiehne, Netherlands – minimalist porcelain

Carlo Zauli, Italy – abstract, organic sculptures

 

20th Century Japanese

Toyozo Arakawa – rustic tea bowls

Shoji Hamada – tea bowls and vessels (slab)

Toyo Kaneshige – pit fired pottery

Shinobu Kawase – altered pottery, celadon glazes

Kosei Matsui – coil built vessels, glaze patterning

Kimpei Nakamura – abstract sculptures, eccentric

Shiro Otani – coil-wheel combo, large-scale vessels

Kitaoji Rosanjin – tea bowls, rustic fires

Kazuhiko Sato – organic vessels

Muneyoshi Yanagi – rustic pottery

 

Contemporary Ceramists

Stephen Benwell – vessels and figures with erratic glazes

Emma Clegg – white vessels with added flowers

Jose Drouin – eclectic sculptures and rustic colors

Tammy Garcia – Maria Martinez-ish, but carved

Christine Giffiths – animal pottery

Lisa Larson – simplified animals

Carol Long – vessels, high detail and complexity

Nick Mackman – detailed animal sculptures

Ricky Maldonado – stippled texture (BIO)

Randy O’Brien – bright colors, crackled surfaces

Magdalene Odundo – asymmetrical coil and wheel pottery, matt black glaze (BIO)

Gustavo Perez – vessels, altered and sliced

Susan Phillips – simple, abstract pottery and sculptures

Rimas Visgirda – underglazes, details