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| John Maltby is a distinguished painter and ceramics maker. He was born in Lincolnshire in 1936. He studied sculpture at
Leicester and at Goldsmith's College, London, then taught painting for two and a half
years before working with David Leach at Bovey Tracey (1962-1964). In 1964, he started his
own workshop at Stoneshill, near Crediton, Devon. He has lectured widely in England, and has been a visiting lecturer at the Bergen Kunsthandverksskole, Norway. In 1987, he was sole judge of the International Ceramic Competition in Auckland, New Zealand, and conducted a two week seminar ("Creativity - the development of a personal style") in Berne, Switzerland, which was repeated in Basle in 1988. In 1989, he was invited by the Galerie Handwerk, Munich, to give a lecture and open the exhibition English Ceramics. He has also published articles in Ceramics Review. He has received a number of awards for his work. He is a member of the Craftsmen Potters Association of Great Britain and the British Crafts Centre, and is an advisor to the Leach Archive at the Holbourne of Menstrie Museum in Bath. John Maltby is widely reprsented in a number of public
collections, including the V&A in London, and others in Edinburgh, Aberystwyth,
Belfast, Exeter, Leicester, Faenza in Italy and Hamburg in Germany. He has exhibited
widely in the UK, Europe and USA. |
