Graham Taylor

You know, I always say with a Bronze Age or a Neolithic potter, they wouldn't have had to look far for clay.

A lot of these people were driving animals in and out of fields or whatever every day.

Here in Britain, where it rains a lot, you're going to be driving them through muddy puddles.

You're going to spot where the clay is.

And of course, the animals are also helping you by adding organic material to the clay as they go.

And in fact, I mean, some pottery traditions, you do add animal dung to the clay to make it more workable, more plastic.

Not one of my favorite things to do, but you know, it works well.

Right.

I think you get a different answer from all sorts of different people.

For me, pottery and ceramics are almost synonymous with one another.

There are blurred edges.

And of course, we have high power engines made of ceramic now.

We have jet engines made of ceramic.

So it would be difficult to sort of define those as pottery.

Yeah, yeah, I've just done a pottery project.

I've built a jet engine, you know.

But I sort of classify it all.

I have a fascination with it all.

It began, really.

I was...