Tom Knowles Jackson

Tom Knowles Jackson is a Cotswold-based potter who creates robust yet refined stoneware deeply rooted in the Leach pottery and Japanese Mingei traditions. His artistic journey began during his school days in Dorset, where he learned the craft under his teacher and friend, Steve Sheridan, drawing heavy inspiration from potters such as David Leach and Richard Batterham. Despite taking a 20 year hiatus from ceramics in order to pursue a career in the Army and business ventures in the Middle and Far East, Tom returned to pottery full time in 2017.

Knowles Jackson creates a range of functional cook and serve ware for the table and home. His work is high fired stoneware, using a small range of his own glazes derived from iron, copper and wood ash to achieve the earthy tones that is so prominent throughout his work. Tom makes all of his pots on a McMeekin momentum wheel which are then high fired in gas reduction using wood ash, white and tenmoku glazes often with expressive slip decoration — creating vessels for the table, oven and sideboard with an emphasis on the ceremony of eating and drinking.