Josiah Wedgwood’s creative spirit transformed British pottery, and his pursuit of beauty and quality still shapes generations of potters today

From George Stubbs’s golden vision of the labourer’s place in society to Ford Madox Brown’s heroically monumental celebration of manual labour, artists gave individual interpretations of work, as Michael Hall reveals

Heather Nash’s Norfolk home is filled with warmth, ...

It’s out with winter blues and in with the blossoming prunus, unless it happens to be English pottery. Lucien de Guise finds out what Coalport brought to the tableware

Once you have noticed the texture on a hand-thrown flowerpot, it’s impossible to use factory made again, says Tiffany Daneff, after a visit to Whichford Pottery in Warwickshire

From rich floral motifs to graceful trailing stems, reworkings of enchanting Arts and Crafts patterns continue to captivate us