Brian Holland

As I work I respond to the clay's ability to reflect and express my physical tactile and spatial experiences-of figures in space, of sea and land, rocks and mountains and the whole gutsy feeling of life. 

I have recently moved back into the city and am loving the city landscape and the hustle and bustle of people.  This influence is being felt in some of my on going work.

I have been an NPA member, consistently, for more than 20 years, and of and on for 30 years. In this time I have been membership secretary, vice- chair, chair and finally the co-ordinator for the SE region. I have taken two NPA exhibitions to The OXO TOWER gallery on the South Bank, London, one NPA exhibition to a ceramics Museum in Sadirac, on the edge of Bordeaux, France and organised several exhibitions for the NPA around Sheffield including one in the Cathedral. I, along with Peter Dworak former manager at Rufford, was a founder member of The Rufford Wood Firing Society, where for 10 years the society enjoyed firing the Anagama kiln built by Jon Fellows. When Rufford closed down the ceramics unit, Carl Gray and several of us initiated a move to Thoresby,(thanks to the generosity of the Thoresby people) where I still chair the Sherwood Forest Wood Firing society. Several NPA members have been or still are members of these two societies.

The NPA has given me a context for my activities.