Walter Keeler: Treasures of the Everyday | Documentary film about UK potter | GOLDMARK
Walter Keeler is a British studio potter, born in London in 1942. He attended Harrow School of Art, London where he was trained by Michael Casson. He established his first pottery at Bledlow Bridge, Buckinghamshire in 1965 then moved to his current studio in Penallt Wales, where he lives with his potter wife Madoline. He was professor of Ceramics at the University of the West of England and in 2007 was named Welsh Artist of the Year.
Keeler makes salt glaze pottery influenced by early Staffordshire Creamware. Writer Oliver Watson described him as 'one of the most important and influential potters of the 1980s'. Keeler's work is held in a number of public collections including Victoria & Albert Museum, National Museum Wales, American Craft Museum, New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA and the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
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Goldmark 2018 Review of Art & Ceramics | GOLDMARK
It's been a BIG year at Goldmark with art and ceramics from John Piper, Randy Johnston, Warren MacKenzie, Ceri Richards, Phil Rogers, Ken Matsuzaki, Marc Chagall, Mike Dodd, John Allen, Pablo Picasso, Christopher P Wood, Elisabeth Frink and more. See you all in 2019...
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Art and Ceramics Review of 2019 | GOLDMARK
Art and Ceramics Review of 2019 |
It's been another busy year here at Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham. A big thank you to our customers who keep giving new homes to pictures and pots.
2019 at Goldmark has seen exhibitions of ceramics by potters, Clive Bowen, Takeshi Yasuda and Lisa Hammond, art by Ron King, Christopher P Wood, David Suff and 3 Armenian artists, Tigran Asatryan, Arthur Hovhannisyan and Ashot Yan. We've also had exhibitons of original artists' posters and Piranesi etchings.
We've published several books this year, the biography of Robert Dawson, A Most Uncommon Man written by David Whiting, a special edition of John Nash Artist and Countryman written by Andrew Lambirth, Michael Rothenstein Artist Printmaker Exploding the Boundaries by Mel Gooding and David Suff's facsimile The River. Not to mention 4 seasonal editions of our quarterly magazine. We have also released a major documentary this year on the life and work of the artist Ron King.
Next year promises to be another packed with goodies. A major retrospective of the oil paintings of gallery artist John Farrington, a final exhibition of pots by the magnificent Svend Bayer and. Publications include a major new work on the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, a special boxed set of etchings and watercolours by Oliver Bancroft and an atmospheric collaboration by Iain Sinclair and Ian Wilkinson.
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Lisa Hammond 2019 Ceramics Exhibition Invitation | GOLDMARK
Goldmark Gallery is delighted to announce the 5th major exhibition of Lisa Hammond ceramics beginning on Saturday 28th September and running for 4 weeks.
For the last 3 years Lisa Hammond, widely regarded to be one of the finest British potters, has been carefully selecting and putting aside the best pots from every firing for this exhibition, which features over 200 stunning pots.
In 2015 Hammond was awarded a prestigious residency at The Mashiko Museum in Japan, the second of its kind and the latest in the development in an ongoing conversation between Britain and Japan that began with Hamada and Leach in the first half of the 20th century. She was invited to spend 7 weeks making and firing using local techniques and materials, an effort to show local potters new ways to interpret their materials and continue to promote that cross-cultural conversation that has become an ongoing tradition. Lisa Hammond is widely recognised to be one of the finest studio potters working today and she has exhibited all over the world. Her work embraces an extensive range of thrown functional ware for the preparation, cooking and serving of food. It is immensely important to her that this work is used in daily life. Alongside the functional ware she also makes a range of work that is more individual and playful. The development of these pieces is a result of time spent in Japan, making, firing and exhibiting.
Her work is authentic, a product of experience, close attention and relentless practise. It invites the art of serving tea, of giving and sharing food and flowers, of looking carefully and reflecting. Michael Tait, 2016 (Commissioning Editor of The Guardian)
Join us for a rare opportunity to view and buy exhibition quality work by this highly sought after potter.
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Warren MacKenzie & Randy Johnston Ceramics Exhibition Highlights
Warren MacKenzie and Randy Johnston | Two Great American Potters
Opens Saturday 23rd June 2018
Major Ceramics Exhibition
This won’t happen again.
This is the rarest of opportunities to acquire work by two of the most important potters in American ceramics: Warren MacKenzie and Randy Johnston.
We have managed to source a magnificent collection of over 100 pots by MacKenzie, the grandfather of American studio ceramics. Having trained with Bernard Leach in St Ives, MacKenzie was the first to bring the great Japanese potter, Shoji Hamada to America and remains the last living link with their generation. A recent New York retrospective featuring similar pieces sold out at significantly higher prices. Our exhibition, complete with catalogue and film, opens in Uppingham on Saturday 23rd June. Pots are now in the UK and are available for purchase.
We will also be showing the latest work of Randy Johnston. Having studied with Warren MacKenzie and Hamada's favourite apprentice, Tatsuzo Shimaoka, Johnston is one of the most exciting and innovative potters working in America today. He is recognized internationally as an artist who has pursued functional expression and brought a fresh aesthetic vision to contemporary form, and for his many contributions to the development of wood kiln technology in the United States. We are delighted to announce that he will be joining us at the gallery on Saturday 23rd June.
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Lisa Hammond: 'A Sense of Adventure' feature film about British potter
This documentary follows top UK studio potter Lisa Hammond as she prepared for her 2012 Goldmark exhibition. Delving into her artistic practice, it provides an insight in to the various stages that go into making her distinctive pieces. We see Lisa at her wheel throwing chawans (teabowls) and a large tsubo jar; firing and unpacking her kiln; and talking about her influences over the years, in particular her love of the Japanese pot making tradition. Also captured on camera is her technique of spraying the soda solution direct into the firebox over a period of three hours, creating the characteristically rich and varied surfaces of her pots.
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Biography - After completing a 1 year foundation course and a 3 year diploma in ceramics at Medway College of Art, Lisa Hammond set up her first pottery in 1980. Aged only 23 she spent the next 5 years establishing Greenwich Pottery Workshop in London. In 1982 as a teacher at Goldsmith's College Hammond was able to introduce soda glaze into her work, its pitted texture still a feature of her pots today.
As well as exhibiting all over the UK, Hammond has had several very successful shows in Japan. She spent 9 months in Sydney, Australia and has held teaching posts at Goldsmith's College and Camberwell College of Art. She has been elected member of the Craft Potter's Association and had her work shown in the National Gallery, London and The Tate, Liverpool.
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A family business started by Mike Goldmark, we've been selling art from the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham, UK for over 40 years and hold over 50,000 items in stock. Explore a wide range of the very best art and ceramics available to you through our website where you'll also find scholarship pages, books, online catalogues and even GoldmarkTV! Enjoy your visit here:
Mel Gooding on the life and work of Michael Rothenstein | GOLDMARK
Born in Hampstead, London, on 19 March 1908, Rothenstein was the youngest of four. He studied at Chelsea Polytechnic and Central School of Arts and Crafts, 1924-7. He had his first one-man show in 1938 and during World War II participated in the Pilgrim Trust Recording Britain project. After the war, he taught printmaking at Camberwell School of Art and was Art Fellow at Sheffield University in 1962.
Rothenstein became one of the most experimental printmakers in Britain during the ‘50s and ’60s. As well as found objects such as wood offcuts and metal debris, he incorporated fresh 20th century imagery into his relief prints, combining photographic material with traditional woodcuts and linocuts. Numerous major galleries currently hold his work and he was made Hon. RE and elected RA in 1983.
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A family business started by Mike Goldmark, we've been selling art from the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham, UK for over 40 years and hold over 50,000 items in stock. Explore a wide range of the very best art and ceramics available to you through our website goldmarkart.com where you'll also find scholarship pages, books, online catalogues and even GoldmarkTV! Enjoy your visit here:
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Warren MacKenzie and Randy Johnston | Two Great American Potters | GOLDMARK
Warren MacKenzie and Randy Johnston | Two Great American Potters. Opens Saturday 23rd June 2018. Major Ceramics Exhibition
This won’t happen again.
This is the rarest of opportunities to acquire work by two of the most important potters in American ceramics: Warren MacKenzie and Randy Johnston.
We have managed to source a magnificent collection of over 100 pots by MacKenzie, the grandfather of American studio ceramics. Having trained with Bernard Leach in St Ives, MacKenzie was the first to bring the great Japanese potter, Shoji Hamada to America and remains the last living link with their generation. A recent New York retrospective featuring similar pieces sold out at significantly higher prices. Our exhibition, complete with catalogue and film, opens in Uppingham on Saturday 23rd June. Pots are now in the UK and are available for purchase.
We will also be showing the latest work of Randy Johnston. Having studied with Warren MacKenzie and Hamada's favourite apprentice, Tatsuzo Shimaoka, Johnston is one of the most exciting and innovative potters working in America today. He is recognized internationally as an artist who has pursued functional expression and brought a fresh aesthetic vision to contemporary form, and for his many contributions to the development of wood kiln technology in the United States. We are delighted to announce that he will be joining us at the gallery on Saturday 23rd June.
What is Goldmark?
A family business started by Mike Goldmark, we've been selling art from the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham, UK for over 40 years and hold over 50,000 items in stock. Explore a wide range of the very best art and ceramics available to you through our website goldmarkart.com where you'll also find scholarship pages, books, online catalogues and even GoldmarkTV! Enjoy your visit here:
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Anne Mette Hjortshøj 2016 Ceramics Exhibition Invitation | GOLDMARK
Goldmark Gallery presents Anne Mette Hjortshoj's second solo show in the UK. Four years in the making. November 19th to December 18th 2016.
“The power and maturity of her pots shine out” - Phil Rogers.
In 2012 Danish potter Anne Mette Hjortshøj became critically acclaimed in the ceramics world after the success of her first exhibition at Goldmark Gallery. The 2012 Goldmark film, Paying Honest Attention”, has been viewed over 65,000 times online and shown on Danish television. The Queen of Denmark, herself a ceramics collector, saw the film and asked if she could visit Anne Mette’s workshop on the island of Bornholm.
Goldmark Gallery is delighted to invite you to come and see why the Queen of Denmark is in love with the work of Anne Mette Hjortshoj. We welcome you to visit the gallery and view Hjortshoj's new work.
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Biography - Anne Mette Hjortshøj began her career in ceramics with a student apprenticeship to fellow potter Phil Rogers in 1998. Rogers has said that he was apprehensive before he met her; with her arrival, however, he knew instinctively that Anne Mette was not only humble and attentive but greatly talented, displaying inner strength and determination that will ensure a long and creative career.
Anne Mette has built three large kilns in her native Denmark, the latest a two chamber wood firing kiln built in September 2011 at her ramshackle farmhouse on the west coast of Bornholm. Though all her pots exhibit her desire to challenge herself in glaze and form, her slab bottles are certainly Anne Mette's tour de force. Her pottery combines beautiful aesthetics with a function befitting the hardiest domestic ware.
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When Anne Mette Hjortshøj Met The Queen (Ceramics Short Film) | GOLDMARK
In 2012 Goldmark made a film about Anne Mette Hjortshøj, one of Denmark’s leading potters, which has now been viewed by tens of thousands of people. The Queen of Denmark saw the film on Danish television and wanted to meet the potter behind the extraordinary ceramics featured in the film.
Anne Mette Hjortshøj | Ceramics
19 November 2016 - 18 December 2016
Major Exhibition
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BBC's Richard Coles introduces potter Phil Rogers | GOLDMARK
Reverend Richard Coles of BBC Radio 4 Saturday Live and pop group The Communards and Bronski Beat fame, officially opened the fourth exhibition of ceramics by the internationally renowned studio potter Phil Rogers at goldmark Gallery.
On Saturday 25th March Goldmark will be hosting its fourth exhibition of ceramics by the internationally renowned studio potter Phil Rogers.
When, back in 2005, we decided to try and give modern British ceramics the gallery platform it deserved, Rogers was the very first potter we sought out to show. In the decade since that inaugural exhibition he has produced some of the finest work we have had the pleasure of handling: proud, round-bellied Tenmoku jugs; wood-fired vases with burnt orange bodies softened by a Nuka rim; and an ever-expanding repertoire of forms graced by warm, runny pine-ash glazes made from the embers of Rogers’ own fireplace.
Now approaching his fortieth year as a working potter, Rogers has been putting exhibition work aside for the last eighteen months. Within that selection, new and developing styles have emerged from the experiments of throwing sessions, from recent interpretations of Korean Buncheong pottery to an ongoing project with Goldmark producing monumental eighty-guinomi sets.But at its core – in essence and in spirit – Rogers’ way with clay has remained the same: a constant desire to explore shape, orchestration, decoration and finish. ‘Working on new forms, trying to achieve a certain ‘rightness’ and crispness of line, is what keeps me interested in clay. Making pots over a long career is about refinement and a never-ending quest to improve. The cliché is always that ‘the next firing will be my best’ – but it remains true that this is every potter’s hope.’
Join us from 10:30am on Saturday 25th March at Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham to celebrate forty years of hard graft, twelve years of collaboration, and over a year of creating and curating in this latest exhibition from one of Britain’s best.
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A family business started by Mike Goldmark, we've been selling art from the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham, UK for over 40 years and hold over 50,000 items in stock. Explore a wide range of the very best art and ceramics available to you through our website goldmarkart.com where you'll also find scholarship pages, books, online catalogues and even GoldmarkTV! Enjoy your visit here:
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Three Armenian Artists | Major UK Exhibition | GOLDMARK
Three Armenian Painters | Major UK Exhibition
14 September - 13 October 2019
Armenia has an illustrious history of artistic achievement. Armenian reliquaries, illuminated manuscripts, textiles and books have caused wonder and excitement since the fourth century. However their modern art has also caused waves and been no less groundbreaking. The most celebrated Armenian artist of the 20th century, Arshile Gorky, is seen by many as having laid the foundations for the development of Abstract Expressionism. Now Goldmark Gallery, Uppingham is to show the work of three celebrated contemporary Armenian artists in a new exhibition that opens on 14th September. They are Tigran Asatryan, Arthur Hovhannisyan and Ashot Yan. Between them the three artists’ exhibitions include ones in New York, Paris, Moscow, Istanbul, Cairo and the Venice Bienalle as well as many in their own homeland. However this is the first time that any of their work has been exhibited in the UK. Admission to Armenian Art at Goldmark is free.
We are proud to be the first UK gallery to recognise these three talents and also to showcase Armenian Art. The Metropolitan Museum in New York has just staged a major exhibition of Armenian culture and the Goldmark show will demonstrate how current Armenian art draws from its unique culture and history whilst also exploring the new.
Armenian Art at Goldmark has been curated by Baykar Demir, Istanbul based Armenian art historian and curator, and he adds, ‘Tigran Asatryan, Arthur Hovhannisyan and Ashot Yan are each unique artists in their own right and their styles range from the sophisticated to the naturalistic, from portraiture to fairy like iconography with influences of The Renaissance, Surrealism, Mythology and Russia. However each is rooted in the very individual cultural heritage of Armenia and British visitors to Goldmark are guaranteed a long overdue insight into that culture and the passion that drives modern Armenian Art.'
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A family business started by Mike Goldmark, we've been selling art from the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham, UK for over 40 years and hold over 50,000 items in stock. Explore a wide range of the very best art and ceramics available to you through our website goldmarkart.com where you'll also find scholarship pages, books, online catalogues and even GoldmarkTV! Enjoy your visit here:
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Anne Mette Hjortshøj Paying Honest Attention - beautiful film about Danish potter
Danish potter, Anne Mette Hjortshøj lives and works on the small island of Bornholm, situated in the Baltic Sea.
Our documentary gives a gentle and revealing insight into one of Denmark's leading potters. It follows Hjortshøj's daily life; collecting clay from the local beach for her glazes, throwing and making pots in her studio, and talking about the firing of her two chamber wood-fired salt kiln and its role in producing the decorative aspects of her work. We learn of her influences both within and outside of the Danish potting tradition and the inspiration she takes from the nature of the island.
Her pots are characterised by a quiet dignity, entirely in tune with her surroundings and with the greatest respect for both beauty and function.
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Biography - Anne Mette Hjortshøj began her career in ceramics with a student apprenticeship to fellow potter Phil Rogers in 1998. Rogers has said that he was apprehensive before he met her; with her arrival, however, he knew instinctively that Anne Mette was not only humble and attentive but greatly talented, displaying inner strength and determination that will ensure a long and creative career.
Anne Mette has built three large kilns in her native Denmark, the latest a two chamber wood firing kiln built in September 2011 at her ramshackle farmhouse on the west coast of Bornholm. Though all her pots exhibit her desire to challenge herself in glaze and form, her slab bottles are certainly Anne Mette's tour de force. Her pottery combines beautiful aesthetics with a function befitting the hardiest domestic ware.
What is Goldmark?
A family business started by Mike Goldmark, we've been selling art from the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham, UK for over 40 years and hold over 50,000 items in stock. Explore a wide range of the very best art and ceramics available to you through our website where you'll also find scholarship pages, books, online catalogues and even GoldmarkTV! Enjoy your visit here:
Alphabets, Bandits & Collaborations: RON KING DOCUMENTARY | GOLDMARK
2020 Royal Television Society Award nominated Best Factual. When a young boy sees a photo of the decapitated head of notorious Brazilian bandit Lampiгo in a book, it becomes an obsession and inspires him to create incredible multifaceted artworks in a life time journey that takes him from Brazil, to England, Canada and the United States as he struggles to have his work recognised and accepted.
In this new Goldmark film, Alphabets, Bandits & Collaborations, shot mostly on location in his studio in Sussex, Ron King talks about his life and inspiration; the development of his work and the founding of Circle Press as an ongoing collaboration with other artists. The film highlights his continuing relationship with the USA which was underlined in 2002 with the purchase of the Circle Press' complete output and archives by the Paul Mellon Foundation at The Yale Center for British Art.
King also talks movingly in the film about the sudden death of his son, from cancer, aged only 15 and that of his second son from the same disease 30 years later and the profound effect the passing of his sons has had on his life and his work.
Featuring interviews with writer, art historian and critic Mel Gooding and artist, designer and filmmaker John Christie, this latest Goldmark film provides a sensitive and revealing insight into the life of this extraordinarily inventive and energetic man.
Ron King has had an artistic life that spans a multi faceted and inspiring 60 years. His iconographic work is marked by a distinctive, fresh and often pioneering approach. As an artist his work can’t be pinned down to by genre but it does have an approach that is hallmarked by a distinctively curious, questioning and energetic approach.
He picked up a scholarship at Chelsea for his painting and then several art awards when he emigrated to Canada, with his wife and sculptor Willow Legge in 1956. Here he worked as an art director in McLean Hunter publishing house. In 1960 Ron returned to the UK with his family to paint for his first one-man show in Toronto. In 1961 while teaching at Farnham School of Art he took up printmaking, which led to a contract in 1964 with the well known print publishers Editions Alecto. Unable to publish his first book ‘The Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales’ with them, he followed through the project himself and formed Circle Press.
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A family business started by Mike Goldmark, we've been selling art from the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham, UK for over 40 years and hold over 50,000 items in stock. Explore a wide range of the very best art and ceramics available to you through our website goldmarkart.com where you'll also find scholarship pages, books, online catalogues and even GoldmarkTV! Enjoy your visit here:
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Celebrating Jim Malone at 70 and 40 years a Potter | GOLDMARK
A behind the scenes look at Jim Malone: A Celebration. The Major Ceramics Exhibition taking place at Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham.
Goldmark Gallery is proud to announce a milestone exhibition of ceramics by Jim Malone, one of Britain’s top potters, opening in Uppingham on Saturday 17th September. Now in his 70th year and after an incredible 40 years of making, Malone has produced an extraordinary collection of pots to celebrate a lifetime’s dedication to his craft.
Now situated in Cumbria amidst the dramatic peaks of the North-West, Malone continues to enliven the Anglo-Oriental ceramic tradition with his pots, throwing locally sourced clay on his Korean kick-wheel and firing in a magnificent two-chambered kiln. A maker of consummate skill and expertise, his craft is not merely an occupation but a way of life, a lifelong devotion to the lasting beauty of handmade ceramics.
The pots to be shown at the Goldmark Gallery represent the very best of Malone’s recent oeuvre, showcasing his immense knowledge and understanding of form, decoration, and firing. Beautiful black Tenmoku bowls with red-rust rims are joined by robust Medieval pitchers, elegant tall bottles, and graceful vases sporting leaping fish, each one painted by hand with a finely tipped brush.
Each pot will be available to view and buy in the gallery and online and a 64-page catalogue with essay and photography will be produced to accompany the exhibition.
Soluppgången [feat. Second Break] by Ars Sonor is licensed under a Attribution License
Phil Rogers Pottery Wheel Throwing Demonstration at the Goldmark Gallery
Please watch: Randy Johnston | An Expansive Vision - feature film about American potter | GOLDMARK
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Learn how to throw on the wheel a yunomi, teabowl, and a small bottle with internationally renowned British potter, Phil Rogers. Film during a demonstration at the Goldmark Gallery for the launch of his new book Phil Rogers - A Portfolio, available to purchase here:
Use the links below to watch your favorite pot being thrown on the wheel.
00:07 - Band around the middle (Yonomi)
07:21 - Paddled decoration (Yonomi)
13:07 - Raised wobbly band around the middle (Yonomi)
17:45 - Band around the lip (Teabowl)
23:42 - Paddled decoration with combed line (Teawbowl)
29:35 - Raised wobbly band around the middle (Teabowl)
35:54 - Small bottle
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Biography - Phil Rogers was born in Newport, Gwent in 1951. He attended Newport and Swansea Colleges of Art and had originally intended to become a painter. While still at college in the early 1970s Rogers and a friend taught themselves to throw. Their only guidance came from Bernard Leach's A Potter's Book and their throwing practice came in the form of competitions to see who could produce the biggest pot.
Rogers has written respected books on ash glazes, throwing techniques and salt glazing. He has run workshops and lectured all over the world, most notably in South Korea and the USA and his work is held in museums worldwide. In 2011 Rogers won the prestigious Vasefinder International prize for the best vase in the world.
What is Goldmark?
A family business started by Mike Goldmark, we've been selling art from the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham, UK for over 40 years and hold over 50,000 items in stock. Explore a wide range of the very best art and ceramics available to you through our website where you'll also find scholarship pages, books, online catalogues and even GoldmarkTV! Enjoy your visit here:
A Shop Like No Other | GOLDMARK
Sometimes the word 'gallery' simply isn't enough. Yes, it's the core of a business dedicated to the best in painting, printmaking, sculpture and ceramics. But here the books turn into paintings, the paintings turn into films.
A casual visitor sitting down to lunch turns into the catalyst for a new project, chance conversations become exciting new paths into uncharted territories. The patently obvious is never quite what it seems. John Lennon had a notice above the door of his house in Ascot that said, in typical Lennon fashion, 'It is not here'. The reverse could be said of the Goldmark Gallery.
After all, on the wall outside is a sculptured plaque with a pig on it. Flying.
What is Goldmark?
A family business started by Mike Goldmark, we've been selling art from the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham, UK for over 40 years and hold over 50,000 items in stock. Explore a wide range of the very best art and ceramics available to you through our website goldmarkart.com where you'll also find scholarship pages, books, online catalogues and even GoldmarkTV! Enjoy your visit here:
At we publish beautiful films and articles for new buyers and seasoned collectors alike, with new content posted every week.
See something you like and you can head over to goldmarkart.com, our online shop, where we sell an extraordinary range of art and ceramics.
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Phil Rogers' lecture at the Goldmark Gallery: Influences and Working Methods
Phil Rogers, presents a 48 minute talk about his influences and working methods, through his early career to today on the occasion of his exhibition and book launch.
You can purchase a copy of Phil Rogers - A Portfolio from Goldmark's website here:
What is Goldmark?
A family business started by Mike Goldmark, we've been selling art from the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham, UK for over 40 years and hold over 50,000 items in stock. Explore a wide range of the very best art and ceramics available to you through our website where you'll also find scholarship pages, books, online catalogues and even GoldmarkTV! Enjoy your visit here:
Randy Johnston | An Expansive Vision - feature film about American potter | GOLDMARK
Our documentary tells the story of one of America's most respected studio potters, Randy Johnston. Set against the backdrop of his picturesque Wisconsin studio, it gives a revealing and moving insight into his artistic journey. Kicking against his family's desire for him to become a doctor, Johnston tells of his early travels to Japan, meeting the great Shoji Hamada and apprenticing to National Living Treasure, Tatsuzo Shimaoka. We are also taken on a visit to the Minnesotan studio of his lifelong mentor and friend, 94 year old American legend, Warren MacKenzie. A deep thinker, Johnston talks about his approach to his working practice and his philosophy on art and teaching.
Having studied with Warren MacKenzie and Hamada's favourite apprentice, Tatsuzo Shimaoka, Johnston is one of the most exciting and innovative potters working in America today. He is recognized internationally as an artist who has pursued functional expression and brought a fresh aesthetic vision to contemporary form, and for his many contributions to the development of wood kiln technology in the United States.
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What is Goldmark?
A family business started by Mike Goldmark, we've been selling art from the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham, UK for over 40 years and hold over 50,000 items in stock. Explore a wide range of the very best art and ceramics available to you through our website goldmarkart.com where you'll also find scholarship pages, books, online catalogues and even GoldmarkTV! Enjoy your visit here:
At we publish beautiful films and articles for new buyers and seasoned collectors alike, with new content posted every week.
See something you like and you can head over to our online shop, where we sell an extraordinary range of art and ceramics.
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Phil Rogers 2014 Slideshow of Work
Selection of work by British potter Phil Rogers, from his 2014 exhibition at the Goldmark Gallery.
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What is Goldmark Gallery?
A family business, we've been selling art from the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham, UK for over 40 years and hold over 50,000 items in stock. Explore a wide range of the very best art and ceramics available to you through our website ( where you'll also find scholarship pages, books, online catalogues and even GoldmarkTV! Enjoy your visit here: