One of the most influential potters in post war Britain, Coper broke new ground in abstract form, color, surface and texture, yet each of his pieces remains a functional container first thrown on the wheel. This book is both a biography and a great portfolio of Coper's work.

Hans Coper

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

BIRKS,Tony

Crafts & Hobbies

Marston House

Piper's Hill

Holt, Oliver

Chronicles of the Damned

Literature & Fiction

Cheney, Malcolm

Action & Adventure

Paperback Book, High quality thick paper. Beautiful Photographs. Excellent modern niche ceramic history reference.

Bernard Leach, Hamada & Their Circle: From the Wingfield Digby Collection

Arts & Photography

Digby, Cornelia Wingfield

Other Media

Marston House [Published Date: 1993]. Hardcover, 95 pp. 1994 reprint. Contents include: Introduction; Getting started; Flowers and designs; Relief enamel on bone china; kilns and firing; Glossary; Suppliers; China painters' associations and magazines; Bibliography; Index. Full color illustrations throughout. [From front jacket flap] This is Gigi Branch: I have been painting on china ever since I left school when I went to be trained in Paris by M le Tallec, the china decorator to Royalty. I simply love the traditional designs of Sevres, and since I came to live in England I have been teaching china painting in the French style as well as working on commissions in my own studio. I know how hard it is, when you are learning, to control your materials and your hand, but I know, too, how much pleasure there is when a design comes right. China painting needs a lot of practice, but it is something you can do on your own at home with little equipment, or in the company of others. Many of my p

Painting on China in the French Style

Branch, Gigi

Traces the life of the Viennese potter and shows examples of her pots, bowls, vases, jars, and bottles

Lucie Rie

Individual Artists

Gabriele Koch

Reference

Koch, Gabriele

Catalogs & Directories

The mobile tentacles of the Sundews, the snapping lobes of the Venus Fly Trap, and the slippery, baited pitfalls of the Pitcher Plants seem the stuff of science fiction, yet these amazing plants do exist. Adrian Slack focuses on some fifty species, using photographs, line drawings, and diagrams to illustrate their peculiarities. He explores in detail the wily manner in which each type of plant entices, catches, and digests its prey.

Carnivorous Plants

Slack, Adrian

Gardening & Landscape Design

TONY BIRKS

Biographies & Memoirs

How to Write Your Family History: Using Your Home Computer

Terrick FitzHugh

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