Kit Andrews

David Simon Contemporary is delighted to show the work of Kit Andrews, AKA The Cornish Potter. Experimenting with a variety of vase and bottle forms, Kit's main body of work uses pit-firing and smoke-firing techniques. Working in stoneware clay, he creates beautifully balanced forms. Exploring both contemporary and ancient forms, Andrews plays with elegance and visual tension. The elegant, clean lines of these forms are juxtaposed with the patination created in the smoke-firing methods resulting in beautiful, random patterns and colours. The nature of this technique being almost impossible to control fully, means that the end colouring happens in quite an organic way, to an extent governed by chance.

Kit Andrews, now in is mid-twenties, started pottery lessons at the age of ten with master-potter, Chris Prindl. He set up a studio at his family home on the south coast of Cornwall, before moving to Somerset. In 2019 he starred on the BBC's Great Pottery Throwdown.

He has been represented by David Simon Contemporary since 2022. The Moon Jar series are his latest exploration of form, following an ancient traditional shape of Korean ceramics. These are made in white porcelain and smoke-fired.