David Chilton
2026 – Taking part in Potfest South West – Shaftesbury
David is a Devon based Ceramic artist. He studied at Cardiff, gaining a BA in Ceramics.
His work has always been figurative, exploring narrative through myth. Touching on issues surrounding the human body, particularly the female body.
He has always used porcelain and is drawn to the qualities it has to offer, imbuing his work with its own story as a medium moving from the Orient to England.
As a person of dual heritage, he explores the tradition of cross pollinating ideas, forms & motifs to reinterpret them through his perspective.
All work is hand-built using slabs of clay, formed by pushing and manipulating from the inside where texture is created and is inherent to the process. This texture is emphasised in glazing by using body stains and oxides with touches of lustre.