Community Support

This campaign is an exciting opportunity for London, and for the London Potter’s Guild. I am proud to support it, and ask you to consider supporting it as well.
Gord Hume, Board of Control, City of London

"This type of initiative is extremely important for our community because, as the Guild has rightly identified, a facility such as this would help make the city of London become a place where our artists and performers would think of London as their 'home base", while at the same time establishing national and international recognition.""The London Potters Guild provides a great service to Londoners having provided area residents with clay art workshops, classes, demonstrations and exhibitions for the past twenty-five years."
Brian Meehan, Executive Director, Museum London

"The London Potters Guild has an excellent reputation in our community for encouraging and nurturing artists and for providing opportunities to learn about and experience art-making. A new facility would enable the Potters Guild to expand its programming, providing even greater opportunities for arts education and artist support within our community.""We applaud the London Potters Guild for its desire to have an appropriate learning environment in which young people can learn about and create pottery."
Tammy Adkin, Executive Director, London Children's Museum

FUSION Magazine
January 2007
An article about the Seize the Clay campaign PDF (531K)

London Free Press
October 11, 2005
"The old blue plate special returns in October, as the London Potters Guild carries on its effort to buy its own building."

The Londoner
Nov 18, 2004
"The London Potters Guild offers recreational and professional potters a place to create clay masterpieces and have some fun in the process."

London Free Press
December 27, 2003
"Warning: Pottery is Addictive"
Do befriend one or more potters. Hint broadly that you think a pottery sink in the powder room would be exquisite and you just happen to have the dimensions and the size of the drainage hole and you could build the colour scheme around it. If you have to, sniff a little, let one tear come down the cheek and look wistful. An open cheque book in hand works wonders while your cheque book is handy, do please make a donation to the Clay Art Centre Campaign."

London Free Press
January 28, 2002
"When Chris Sneddon asked his excited audience if anyone had worked with clay before, a swarm of little hands immediately shot up. The children around his table couldn't wait to get their hands dirty so they could get started crafting their bowls. They didn't just come for fun, though, they
were also contributing to the battle against hunger in London."

"Part of our mission is to enrich the community through clay."
Chris Sneddon, then LPG President

London Free Press
March 8, 2001
"Ninety Potters and Not a Harry in Sight?"
"The London Potters Guild is not an organization based on the latest trends. Instead, the organization dedicated to the age-old art of making things from clay has a steady - if low profile - place in the life of the city."

"It's one of the best-kept secrets in London," says member Jean Frisby.

Genet Hodder says potter fell from popularity with the start of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th Century, but it saw a revival in the 20th Century. "It's the individuality, the fact that it's been touched and made by human hands," she says.

"Membership in the London Potters Guild is an indication that working with clay is one of the most basic human abilities, crossing all kinds of boundaries. The national heritage of members include Maltese, English and Japanese."

London Free Press
June 8, 1998
"How Can a Pot Take Your Breath Away?"
"I've been making stuff out of clay for 15 years and I'm just as excited about it as I always was."
Chris Sneddon

"When clay gets into somebody's hands, it takes from their hands the shape of their experience."
Chris Sneddon

"Sneddon says it seems that the more technological a society becomes, the more people are attracted to rootsy things such as handmade items. Sneddon argues pottery is so rootsy that civilization could not have happened without it because it was needed to store food."

London Free Press
June 3, 1995
"These pieces show what's in the potter's heart and mind and their love for clay."
Gallery Owner Sandy Snelgrove

"Pottery is very special and I think it's a real coup to have this show and expose (the work) to clients of the gallery and the people who come by off the street."
Gallery Owner Sandy Snelgrove

"I have received a lot of benefits from working with the Guild. I've met a whole lot of really great people. My skill and knowledge have increased. I'm able to network with others and benefit from their experiences. If I'm having a technical problem, I have people to call and there's a whole lot of satisfaction gained from seeing people grow through their work."
Guild Member Chris Snedden