Daughters of Earth
Work by Liz Mathews, lettering artist and studio potter.
Most recent posts:
A fond farewell to our shop on the Wharf and looking forward to our new gallery
by Liz Mathews
Our Winter collection at Potters’ Yard Arts, with festive pots, paintings, and some sparkling Pots to Wear jewellery
Our Autumn collection at Potters’ Yard Arts, with a new batch of Pots to Wear jewellery and some beautiful paintings of Autumn on the wing
Our summer collection at Potters’ Yard Arts, and a new publication from The Pottery Press: Innerseas by Ferdinand Jónsson
Potters’ Yard Arts celebrates London Craft Week with a special collection of pots, paintings, artist’s books and house portraits
(Gallery talks, February 2025)
Our new new shop is now open on Gabriel’s Wharf, nearer the river
(Digressions, February 2025)
The UK Government’s Copyright & AI Consultation
(Gallery talk, February 2025)
Pots of love and river vessels to celebrate moving to our new shop on Gabriel’s Wharf
(Gallery talk, Winter 2024)
Festive pots, joyful decorations, and year-round pleasures to celebrate the season
(Gallery talk, Autumn 2024)
Seasonal pots in an autumn collection just unpacked from the kiln, alongside artist’s books and paperworks celebrating the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
(Work in Focus, August 2024)
New pots and a summer special collection fresh from the kiln
(Work in Focus, June 2024)
Our summer collection at Potters’ Yard Arts on Gabriel’s Wharf
Potters’ Yard Arts at Gabriel’s Wharf
(Work in Focus, March 2024)
A new shop opening with a joyful Spring collection Spring Tide
(Digressions, November 2023)
A festive pop-up shop from Potters’ Yard
15th November to Christmas Eve
11am – 6pm
open daily except Mondays
A Quartet of Journeys
(Works in focus, August 2023)
Four artist’s books about journeying, in my Singing the Year series:
The Prospect of Happiness
A tour of Liz’s recent exhibition at The Peggy Jay Gallery, Burgh House, Hampstead
6th to 17th July 2022
(Work in focus, December 2021)
Celebrating the year’s midnight, and looking forward to the light.
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Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
(Work in Focus, February 2021)
Snowy London, and the song of the snow, with Virginia Woolf and Jeremy Hooker.
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(Work in focus, February 2021)
A collection of portraits of one lovely Arts & Crafts house – and how to commission a house portrait.
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Walking with Maureen Duffy’s Wanderer
(Gallery talk, November 2020)
A special online event celebrating Maureen Duffy’s work and the launch of a new digital collection, STRANDlines, with an in-depth look at my artist’s book Walking, setting lines from Maureen Duffy’s poem Wanderer.
(Work in focus, May 2020)
For the eightieth anniversary of Dunkirk, a new edition of The Dunkirk Project, a new short film, and new features including a series exploring Dunkirk artworks, and highlights from Dunkirk stories.
(Work in focus, April 2020)
A new poem by Maureen Duffy, and a wake-up call from nature
(Digressions, April 2020)
Some rainbows and uplifting poetry for dark times
(Work in Focus, February 2020)
Two very exciting new books from The Pottery Press (images by me)
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(Work in Focus, March 2019)
An article about my work
in Country Life magazine
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(Work in Focus, January 2019)
A snowy evening,
winter poems by John Clare
and waiting in hope for better times
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Frost, stars, and the consolations of art
(Digressions, December 2018)
These December nights, a Nutcracker and Climate Change
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(Work in Focus, July 2018)
Loving thoughts on John Clare’s birthday.
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(Work in Focus, April 2018)
A new pamphlet
by Jeremy Hooker
from The Pottery Press
and a new artist’s book
inspired by it.
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A Triptych from The Pottery Press
(Gallery talks, April 2018)
An event celebrating our first three pamphlets
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The Blue Hour of Natalie Barney
(Work in Focus, November 2017)
A new book from The Pottery Press
and the premiere of an exciting new play by Frances Bingham
directed by Kenneth Hoyt
with Amanda Boxer as Natalie Barney
at London’s Arcola Theatre
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(Work in Focus, September 2017)
Some new additions to The British Library’s collection
– walking with Virginia Woolf and flying with Maureen Duffy
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Past Present at The Pottery Press
(Gallery talks, Work in Focus, September 2017)
An exciting new publication
from The Pottery Press
and an enormous book
setting a poem/translation
by Maureen Duffy
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(Gallery talks, April 2017)
An international artists’ book fair
and guest blog interview
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(Gallery talks, January 2017)
An artist’s film walking through
the year with Jeremy Hooker’s poems
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House portraits from Potters’ Yard
(Work in Focus, July 2016)
A new website about
30 years of miniature
architectural studies
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(Gallery talks, Midsummer 2016)
A photo-diary of
Hot ice and wondrous strange snow
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Hot ice and wondrous strange snow
(Work in Focus, June 2016)
My summer exhibition
and an artists’ book fair
in beautiful Norwich
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(Work in Focus, January 2016)
A showcase of artist’s books
to accompany new poetry
by Maureen Duffy
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(Gallery talks, September 2015)
Three autumn excursions
with the books
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(Work in Focus, May 2015)
A new Edition of
The Dunkirk Project for 2015
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Paper wings and the material word
(Gallery talks, autumn 2014)
Artist’s book and film
on show at the sixth
Poetry Library Open Day
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(Gallery talks, summer 2014)
A new artist’s book installation
at Enitharmon Press
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(Work in focus, spring 2014)
A tribute to Dylan Thomas on
his 100th anniversary
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In the shade of the plane trees
(Work in focus, summer 2013)
A celebration of summer for
my Singing the Year collection
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(Gallery talks, May 2012)
Reviews and responses to
exhibition at the British Library
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Writing Britain at the British Library
(Work in focus, March 2012)
My artist’s book Thames to Dunkirk
on exhibition at the British Library
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(Work in focus, March 2012)
My summer exhibition at the LCP
in North London
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(Work in focus, January 2012)
Winter Wild, from
Love & Freedom: Burns’ Year
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(Work in focus, December 2011)
New work in clay, handmade paper
and driftwood from the Thames
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(Work in focus, Autumn 2011)
Autumn journeys and
a winter exhibition
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(Work in focus, Autumn 2011)
Autumn journeys and
a winter exhibition
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(Work in focus, Autumn 2011)
Autumn journeys and
a winter exhibition
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(Work in focus, August 2011)
Taking books to Edinburgh
and other festivals
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(Work in focus, July 2011)
Summer evenings by the river
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(Gallery talks, June 2011)
A tour round my exhibition
Watermark
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(Work in focus, May 2011)
Mingling in the warmth of May
in Holland Park
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(Work in focus, April 2011)
Blossomy lengthening days,
and a cottage in a garden
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(Work in focus, March 2011)
A tale of spring, a new book
and an exhibition of new work
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(Work in focus, February 2011)
Spells for the bees and
the feast of St Valentine
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(Work in focus, January 2011)
Pots for midwinter and
Books of Hours
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(Work in focus, 22nd December)
Seasonal pots and wishes
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(Work in focus, 17th December)
(and the city too)
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(Digressions, 11th December)
Driftwood with text by
Vita Sackville-West,
and a soapbox
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(Work in focus, 2nd December)
A snow storm by
John Clare
In another land
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(Work in focus, 26th November)
Wordsworth and Patrick Moore
evoking the Northern Lights
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(Work in focus, 19th November)
Sweeping the leaves and catching
light in the orchard
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(Gallery talks, 10th November)
Thames to Dunkirk goes to
The British Library
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(Work in Focus, 28th October)
Dancing to the music
of the spheres
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(Work in Focus, 8th October)
Apples, blackberries
and leaves of grass
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(Work in Focus, 1st October)
A fountain on the heath,
and a sea breeze
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(Work in Focus, 23rd September)
Flowers and fruit for the
Autumn equinox
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(Work in Focus, 14th September)
Throwing on the wheel and
pots for special times
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A kingfisher and a little elephant
(Work in Focus, 7th September)
An artist’s book on
a different scale
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(Work in Focus, 27th August)
Pots to celebrate the last pleasures
of summer
(Work in Focus, 19th August)
A one-elephant book
celebrating seasonal
delights
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(Work in Focus, 13th August)
A new group of paperworks
including an artist’s book called
Stream
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(Work in Focus, 6th August)
Inspiring colour poems from
the films of Margaret Tait
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(Work in Focus, 30th July 2010)
Summer pots and singing to the bees
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(Work in Focus, 23rd July)
A one-elephant artist’s book with a rivery text from Geoffrey Grigson’s Shell Country Alphabet
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(Gallery talks, 16th July )
About creativity, making art, and secrets
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(Work in Focus, 8th July)
Making plates and celebrating John Clare’s poetry
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(Work in Focus, 2nd July)
A one-elephant artist’s book with a meteoric text by Giovanni Pascoli translated by EJ Scovell
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(Work in Focus, 25th June)
A spell for a heatwave with text by M. Minnaert
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(Gallery Talks, 25th June)
Talking about our perspective on the past, making art collectively, and the next stage of The Dunkirk Project
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(Work in Focus, 17th June)
Strawberry bowls, wine jugs and flowers everywhere
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(Work in Focus, 9th June)
An update on the progress of my interactive online installation, The Dunkirk Project
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(Work in Focus, 30th May)
A little elephant book with a reckless prediction for the weekend, which perhaps I will regret making
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(Work in Focus, on 24th May)
About the making of Thames to Dunkirk and The Dunkirk Project
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(Work in Focus on 15th May)
Introducing my online interactive installation, live online from 27th May to 4th June 2010, the 70th anniversary of the Evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940
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Clay pages and balancing gravity
(Gallery Talks on 7th May)
About making banners and building layered works from small parts
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(Work in Focus on 7th May)
Bluebells and seasonal pots
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(Work in Focus, 26th April)
A one elephant artist’s book
with text and cloud formation
by John Constable
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(Gallery talks, 12th April)
The sky a bowl of stars
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(Gallery talks on 30th March)
Past and future meet in
poetry of witness from
Kathleen Raine
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(Work in Focus on 30th March)
One of the first of my new
One Elephant artist’s books, torn
from a single sheet of handmade paper
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(Work in Focus, 19th March)
Seasonal pots
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(Gallery talks on 8th March)
About the art of lettering on clay
– why, where and how
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(Work in Focus on 2nd March 2010)
Throwing pots, the hidden sphere,
and the magic of the kiln
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