What’s the difference between a ceramicist and a potter? “An MA,” Keith Brymer Jones says without hesitation, letting out a belly laugh. “Art school.” He puts on a posh accent: “ ‘Oh no, I’m a ceramicist.’ There’s no difference, really! A potter’s just a bit more real, I would say. But then I would say that.”
It’s true, he would. As a long-time judge on the televised competition The Great Pottery Throw Down, and in the decades he’s been making his own ceramic homeware, Brymer Jones, 56, has committed to an unpretentious approach. He began working as an apprentice aged 18 before starting his own pottery business in his twenties. His signature line of mugs is white, with a word or phrase printed on the side in typewriter font; his bestseller is “love”, but he also sells “hundreds and hundreds” of one that says “c***”.
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