Fitch & McAndrew

The original Potfest flagship event showcasing the very best work from 90 selected artists, chosen from throughout the UK, Europe and beyond. All with very distinctive, individual styles. Set in the magnificent backdrop of Hutton-in-the-Forest on the edge of the beautiful Lake District National Park. Potfest in the Park takes place under large marquees on […]

The ICF is Europe’s premier ceramics festival which is held at Aberystwyth Arts Centre on the campus of Aberystwyth University on the mid-Wales coast. Since it began in 1987, the three-day festival has grown to become the UK’s leading ceramics event. It offers teachers, students, ceramic artists, collectors, working potters and amateurs and lovers of […]

We are delighted to share the full line-up of artists and craftspeople taking part in the 2025 open studios event. This year, we have over 80 studios taking part. In February we will be launching our Virtual Studios – each Spring Fling studio will have a dedicated page on this website where the artists and […]

As recipients of the Andy Christian award for ceramics at last year's Craft Festival, Bovey Tracey, we were awarded a showcase at MAKE Southwest for two months this year.

Kirkcudbright Galleries are delighted to present Decade, a celebratory exhibition by Upland Members  18th January – 9th March 2025 On display in Gallery Two, First Floor. Gallery Two opening hours are: Tuesday – Saturday: 10am – 4pm, and Sundays: 11:30 – 4pm. (Last entry at 3:45pm) Free entry, donations welcome. Artworks are for sale in this […]

Upland made is a visual art and craft fair selling handmade, bespoke and unique work made by Upland members. It celebrates the handmade; the Upland made. It invites you to shop for unique, handmade items created by local artists and makers. The event takes place at Easterbrook Hall in Dumfries in November each year. The dates for the 2024 event are: […]

Our ninth online exhibition.

Collective: 15 explores Visual Artists and Craft Makers Awards over the last 15 years in the South of Scotland. Showcasing artists and makers from all stages of their careers and in mixed genres, highlighting the quality and diversity of work across the South of Scotland. Multiple independent artists and craft makers have benefitted from the […]

THE ORIGINAL POTFEST FLAGSHIP EVENT SHOWCASING THE VERY BEST WORK FROM 90 SELECTED ARTISTS, CHOSEN FROM THROUGHOUT THE UK, EUROPE AND BEYOND. All with very distinctive, individual styles. Set in the magnificent backdrop of Hutton-in-the-Forest on the edge of the beautiful Lake District National Park. Potfest in the Park takes place under large marquees on […]

Mill Marsh Park, Bovey Tracey, Devon June 7-9 2024 Celebrating the 20th Anniversary in 2024. Craft Festival, Bovey Tracey is one of the UK's most prestigious and much loved craft events.  Over 200 of the UK's finest makers will be exhibiting and the programme is brimming with workshops, demonstrations, Out of the Woods,  children's activities and entertainment, […]

Spring Fling is a vibrant visual art and craft open studios event covering the length and breadth of Dumfries and Galloway in South West Scotland. It is highly regarded as one of the UK’s most successful contemporary visual art and craft events. Every year around 90 professional artists and makers throw open the doors of […]

Cohesion. An exhibition by Doug Fitch and Hannah McAndrew at The Scottish Gallery.

  Our eight online exhibition. This opens at 7pm and the catalogue will be on the website with all pots being available to purchase online in our web shop.

We are being represented in Japan by our gallery there, Gallery St. Ives in Tokyo. This Mingei Exhibition is to be held in Nihombashi Takashimaya central Tokyo from September 6th.

Folk at Heart is an invitation to enter a world of discovery and creativity. The Scottish Gallery have curated an uplifting, theatrical and imaginative exhibition combining fine, popular and applied artists to sit alongside self-taught and anonymous folk artists mixing contemporary and historical timelines. Folk at Heart embraces the artist, the amateur, naïve and unpretentious – […]

All with very distinctive, individual styles. Set in the magnificent backdrop of Hutton-in-the-Forest on the edge of the beautiful Lake District National Park. Potfest in the Park takes place under large marquees on parkland in front of this magnificent country house. The potters’ special competition pieces are displayed on the lawns in front of the […]

100 studios taking part in this year’s event – this is the largest number of studios EVER! Every artist/maker has a ‘virtual studio’ on the Spring Fling website, so you can find out about them and their work, see where their studio is on the map and start planning your Spring Fling experience!

The regular Watts Ceramics show returns to Watts Contemporary Gallery, this time taking inspiration from traditions of the past. Works in this exhibition will draw on centuries-old techniques of slipware, delftware, Limoges porcelain, Staffordshire figures, Persian 12th-century tiles and William de Morgan lusterware, by leading makers including Shriyani Batuwitage, Katrin Moye and Hannah McAndrew and […]

York Ceramics Fair, run by the Craft Potters Association, returns this year in a new venue at York Racecourse over the  weekend of March 4th and 5th.

Fitch & McAndrew, An Ongoing Devotion is our second exhibition at The Leach Pottery in St. Ives, Cornwall. We are returning after seven years with an exhibition to coincide with the 100 year anniversary of Michael Cardew arriving to work at The Leach Pottery under Bernard Leach. Cardew is of course probably our biggest influence […]

Introducing a selection of new artists to The Scottish Gallery.

'Earthenware Exhibition' at Clay College features work by Clive Bowen, Dylan Bowen, Patia Davis, Doug Fitch, Russell Kingston, Hannah McAndrew and Richard Phethean. The exhibition coincides with the 3rd cohort of Clay College students' first project which is earthenware.

An exhibition of woodland inspired work by a group of artists and craftspeople curated by the wonderful Tinsmiths in Ledbury. The exhibition will be held at the Heritage Centre, on Church Lane in Ledbury until the end of September. The work is all available to view online on the Tinsmiths website too.

The Park is a well established, selected event showcasing the work of some of the country’s finest ceramic markers. Hutton-in-the-Forest is a beautiful country house estate on the edge of the Lake District National Park. The sides of the marquees are left open to allow the fantastic work being shown to sit perfectly alongside the […]

There will be 96 studios spanning our vast region. All studios are open for the full 4-days from 2 to 5 June and we look forward to welcoming you back.

Celebrating the 20th Spring Fling Open Studios event. An exhibition featuring just some of the many many wonderful artists and crafts people who have been a part of the event over the years.  

Let it Slip is a joint exhibition featuring the works of Prue Cooper, Hannah McAndrew, and Sean Miller as they celebrate their new slipware. Slipware refers to the decorating process whereby slip, a liquid mixture of clay, is dripped, splashed, painted, or otherwise applied to leather-hard pre-fired ceramics. The three ceramicists pay close attention to […]

An exhibition to celebrate the diversity of the wonderful Modern Makers project in the years since 2013. Modern Makers is a programme for a small group of young people (under 30 years) from Dumfries and Galloway to work intensively with a professional maker to learn craft skills and gain insight into running a creative business. […]

The Winter Art & Craft Fair is a brand new event from Upland, supported by Dumfries and Galloway Council, showcasing and selling contemporary visual art and craft by Upland members. The event at The Easterbrook Hall, The Crichton, Dumfries, showcases the wealth of creative talent and diverse practice of our Upland members and is a great opportunity […]

An international exhibition of wood fire potters. The first of these exhibitions was curated by the late Phil Rogers and The Schaller Gallery have continued to follow his lead with this, now their third exhibition on this theme.

From the team that put on the Craft Festivals in Bovey Tracey and Cheltenham comes the Digital Craft Festival. A weekend full of live chat with makers, films, demonstrations, masterclasses and make along events all from the comfort of your own home. We will be giving a demo during the weekend, timings to be confirmed.

Our sixth online exhibition. It will feature a selection of our best pots from most recent firings.

A beautiful exhibition celebrating the diversity of contemporary slipware across Britain.

I am raising money for this much needed charity, FareShare, who aim to fight hunger and tackle food waste in the UK. While doing this I also wish to highlight the issue of racism that reared it's ugly head during the Euro2020 tournament. I am offering the opportunity to win this large, 48cm diameter, slipware charger […]

Over 100 exhibitors from throughout the UK, Europe and beyond. All with very distinctive, individual styles. Set in the backdrop of Hutton-in-the-Forest on the edge of the beautiful Lake District National Park.

New for 2021 is a Potfest show at the fabulous Compton Vern3y in Warwickshire. Potfest shows are notoriously wonderful, a mix of fabulous ceramic work and usually a beautiful setting too. This one will be no exception.

Three days of amazing-jam-packed-mind-blowing workshops from ceramic artists around the world.

We are taking part in the fabulous Digital Craft Festival again the weekend of 26th to 28th March. Join a whole host of top notch makers from around the globe demonstrating, chatting live and giving workshop tours.

Hundred & Under is a brand new promotion presenting work by 30 Upland Members priced at £100 or less and includes jewellery, ceramics, books, cards, paintings, prints, glass, textiles and discounts.

Nearly 40 artists and makers have responded to the challenge to create small-scale artworks for an online exhibition called A Postcard From D&G. Organised by Upland Arts Development CIC, the idea was for them to come up artworks that showcase and celebrate what’s special about this large and beautiful rural region with its rich pastures, […]

Art in Clay at Hatfield House has been cancelled due to Covid-19 but the team behind this great event have put together this online selling exhibition of exhibitors that would have been there.

An online exhibition featuring work by Hannah McAndrew, Tomoo Hamada and Doug Fitch.

Craft Potters Association selling fair in The Hospitium, York.

Showcases some of the finest ceramics currently being made by individual makers in the UK and Europe.

Potfest ceramic shows - putting public and potters together. Meet the potters, talk pots, and buy direct from the maker.

Over 125 potters stalls are sited within the old kitchen garden, the grounds of the artist studios and the Harley Ceramic Studio which hosts a demonstration programme.

Fen Ditton Gallery, Cambridge.

Spring Fling is a vibrant visual art and craft open studios event covering the length and breadth of Dumfries and Galloway in South West Scotland; it is highly regarded as one of the UK's most successful contemporary visual art and craft events.

Solo exhibition at Gallery St. Ives, Tokyo, Japan.

Our third online exhibition.

40 leading makers, talks, demos and more.

Group exhibition.

The Nail Factory

International Ceramics Fair

An exhibition of our work in the USA.

Making, learning, communicating & collecting contemporary studio ceramics

Mixed exhibition at The Mustard Gallery.

Online exhibition of our work with pieces from throughout 2017.

Stratford Gallery, Stratford on Avon

Mixed exhibition of crafts at this lovely little gallery, The Nail Factory in Dalbeattie.

The Craft Scotland Summer Show is a firm fixture on the craft calendar. Our annual selling exhibition showcases contemporary, design-led craft throughout August, all housed on the second floor of White Stuff, George Street, Edinburgh.

Over 100 exhibitors invited from all over Europe and beyond. All with very distinctive individual styles, all passionate about working with clay.

A celebration of clay and the potter's art.

Demonstrators at the wonderful Contemporary Craft Festival at Bovey Tracey.

This year we have 93 studios flinging their studio doors open for Spring Fling Open Studios. Of this, we have 15 new studios taking part, along with a mix of Neighbours (artists/makers from neighbouring regions) and Springbacks (artists/makers that have taken part before or have a connection to the region but don't live in D&G).

The 11th annual Yunomi Invitational featuring works from around the world.

A beautiful exhibition of mixed arts and craft especially picked for Christmas.

Geoff Forrest - wonderful willow creations. Autumn Returns. A mixed exhibition with work including illustration

A selection of work from recent firings available to view in the online catalogue from the following link. https://issuu.com/dougfitch/docs/fitch_and_mcandrew_online_2016

Ceramic Art York will represent the best in contemporary studio ceramics, with the selected work exhibited pavilion in the beautiful surroundings of York Museum Gardens.

Over 100 exhibitors invited from all over Europe and beyond....all with very distinctive individual styles ....all passionate about working with clay. Earth and Fire International Ceramic Fair is one of the country's premier ceramic events taking place every year in the grounds of Rufford Abbey in North Nottinghamshire.

Spring Fling is a vibrant visual art and craft open studios event covering the length and breadth of Dumfries and Galloway in South West Scotland; it is highly regarded as one of the UKäó»s most successful contemporary visual art and craft events.

Exhibition of work made throughout 2015 along with work made during a residency at The Leach Pottery.

Junction Art Gallery, Wood Stock, Oxfordshire

Over 100 exhibitors invited from all over Europe and beyond, all with very distinctive individual styles, all passionate about working with clay.

Earth and Fire - one of the country's premier ceramic events, takes place every year in the grounds of Rufford Abbey. Ceramic Art York will represent the best in contemporary studio ceramics

A celebration of red clay with the Cornwall Crafts Association and invited guests.

Potfest returns to the Perth area for its 17th year in Scotland. This years show is once again Potfest at the Palace, in the wonderful grounds of Scone Palace, the home of the Stone of Destiny, the crowning site of former Scottish kings.

94 visual artists, makers and designers are participating in Spring Fling 23 - 25 May 2015, in a wide variety of disciplines and with studios scattered throughout the region.

Held at the renowned American Museum in Bath on the 28th March, The Selvedge Spring Fair will bring to town an exclusive selection of 25 makers offering a host of antique textiles, fashion, home-ware and haberdashery. Selvedge are teaming up with Bath In Fashion to celebrate the start of Spring with this eclectic event!

Join Amanda Simmons, Hazel Campbell, Douglas Fitch and myself for drinks on Friday 14th November 6-9pm, Corsock Craft Fair, Lovely fair with a fabulous variety and high quality of work in the small village of Corsock

More than 60 of the UK's leading potters will be exhibiting and selling their ceramics at the Oxford Ceramics Fair 2014.

The first joint exhibition of Douglas Fitch and myself, individual work by both and a few special collaborative pieces too.

Doug Fitch and Hannah McAndrew, two of the most talented British slipware makers, have teamed up to present a weekend workshop, which promises to be informative and fun. Kigbeare Studios, Dartmoor.

Ceramics in the City returns to the Geffrye with an exciting range of work by around 50 selected ceramicists, a mix of both leading names and rising talents.

A celebration of great pots and good food in Derbyshire.

Over 100 exhibitors invited from all over Europe and beyond, all with very distinctive individual styles, all passionate about working with clay.

Showcasing some of the finest ceramics currently being made by individual makers in the UK and Europe.