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Sue Jenkins
Although Sue has no formal training or qualifications in ceramics she has
been working in clay since 1974 when she helped to run craft and pottery
workshops in Liverpool.
After having her two children in the early eighties, she attended Adult
Education Classes, which rekindled her interest in ceramics. Initially Sue
started running her own business from a market stall, alongside raising a
family, which she found to be very successful.
Her enthusiasm for ceramics increased when she started teaching in Adult
Education in 1994 and had to find out more about the whole subject, its
different techniques and inspirations Sue also realised that she really
enjoyed sharing her enthusiasm, knowledge, and love of ceramics with others.
Today Sue is a self employed potter who, whilst continuing to teach,
creates wonderful animals and garden stoneware full of humour and character
which she finds to be "the perfect mix of my two great passions; gardening
and pottery!"
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Graham Jenkinson Graham
was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, in 1957. On leaving school Graham
worked as a Textile Engineer but at the age of 39, having been made
redundant twice due to the decline of what was a great industry, Graham
found he had to reconsider his future. He had a long hard think about his
working life taking into account all the different things that interested
him, including the world of art.
Graham soon began to see shape and form in the objects he had been using
for the past 27 years and started to experiment by welding pieces of metal
together. He enjoyed using the tools and pieces of redundant machinery,
objects with a working past, and giving them a new lease of life.
Even in the early stages Graham's talent was clear, and he was finally
encouraged by friends and family to take things further and enter the
Christmas Craft Market in Huddersfield. He was extremely nervous but his
beautiful and humorous sculptures proved very popular and this encouraged
him even more.
Graham says that his inspiration comes from whatever piece of metal he
picks up, seeing what it could be rather than what it actually is. He likes
to keep the original components within his sculptures in the hope that
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