Phil Rogers

I am not a potter attempting to make social or political statement. Rather, I am trying with the best of my ability to provide an audience with work that has beauty, grace and function while, at the same time, furthering a tradition that I am happy and comfortable to be a part of. The challenge for me is to find my own way along a narrow path, to seek creatively that variation and nuance that distinguish my pots from the work of another. Technique is important … skills enable the vision to become reality. However, that innermost intuitive expression which is contained in the heart is more valuable to the potter than the fundamentals of hand. Technique can be the enemy of spontaneity … there should always be evident a sense of adventure. I endeavour always to leave a personal signature … to imbue my work with an indefinable quality that speaks of me as an artist. That is my role as contemporary maker.