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• Khaled Ben Slimane is Tunisia's most foremost studio potter. His work draws on Andalusian themes and the Berber traditions of Sejenane and Jerba.
• Heo Jin Kyu is an onggi potter and is a member the Ulsan Onggi Association. His works are fired in gas, oil, or “noboragama” kiln to 1260°C (cone 8) with an ash glaze.
• Yon Shik Bae is a traditional potter from Maseok, South Korea. His pottery is from the Northern region of Korea. All of his works are either unglazed or only have applied slip and are fired to 1300°C.
• Finnish studio potter Erna Aaltonen makes elegant, hand-built vessels, which embody the Finnish design aesthetic.

• American ceramist Kathy Butterly has been making a name for herself with her softly folded, twisted and distorted porcelain vessels.
• Vipoo Srivilasa is a Thai ceramist resident in Australia. Stephen Benwell's article reviews work exhibited in Bangkok, Thailand in 2005.


• Janis Mars Wunderlich's surreal sculptures capture "the exhaustion and exhilaration of life as both a creative artist and busy parent".
• Dutch ceramists Johnny Rolf and Jan de Rooden have been working together since 1959. Despite this, they both developed their own unique style.


• American ceramist Karen Swyler makes pairs of wheel-thrown, functional porcelain vessels, which reference body language and gesture.


• Danish studio potter Peder Rasmussen's whimsical sphere-shaped vases will be show-cased at the museum KERAMION in Frechen, Germany from May 7 – July 30, 2006


• Wilhelm Kagel (1867–1935) and his son Wilhelm Kagel II ran one of the most important pottery studios in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, where they made Art Nouveau style ceramics.


• New Hampshire studio potter John Baymore has been wood-firing since 1969. His wheel-thrown pottery is influenced by the Oriental aesthetic.


• Award-winning Irish ceramist Deirdre McLoughlin makes high-fired biomorphic sculpture, which is polished with diamond pads.


• Zen Parry’s signature triangular form is a metaphor for the dark corners of the human psyche, i.e. those thoughts that you would rather not confront.


• Singapore-born American studio potter Fong Choo makes miniature sculptural teapots of great skill and beauty.


• Halima Cassell's deeply carved, large-scale, contoured sculptural vessels are made from a heavily grogged, unglazed clay and are inspired by Islamic and African art and architectural geometry.


• German ceramists Rita Ternes and Thomas Naethe have shared a studio since 1982 and have both developed a unique style of their own - Thomas Naethe with his sleek, wheel-thrown vessels and Rita Ternes, with her folded, 'geometric plane' sculptures.


• German ceramist Antonia Schulze is a little-known in the world of global ceramic arts. Schulze, who makes trompe l'oeil sculpture, was born in 1909, didn't start her career as an artist until she was nearly 60 years old


• Japanese studio potter Furutani Kazuya has followed in the footsteps of his famous father, Shigaraki potter Furutani Michio (1946-2000), leading to the son being celebrated as a master of the anagama and 'heir to the throne'.


• Bill Abright's sculptures focus on animal forms, fish, insects and the human figure, often morphing species or combining elements from different biological sources.


• British ceramist Peter Beard is known for his wheel-thrown vessels and hand-built biomorphic stoneware sculpture with layered shiny, matt and semi-matt glazes.


• Gundi Dietz is an Austrian ceramist creating figurative sculpture, mainly of the female nude. Each work is a sensitive character study.


• Susana Beibe is an Argentine ceramist creating monumental sculptural works with cubist influences.


• Lithuanian-American ceramist Rimas VisGirda creates vessels with humourous, socio-critical imagery.


• Jamaican sculptor Gene Pearson creates unglazed earthenware heads and vessels with faces in carved relief, as well as bronze sculptures.


• American ceramist Allan Rosenbaum makes whimsical figurative sculpture influenced by West Coast Funk and Surrealism.


• David Furman is known for his whimsical porcelain trompe l’oeil stacked fruit and vegetable tea pots, which reference pre-Colombian and Peruvian Moche erotic vessels.


• Itsue ITO is a Japanese ceramist resident in Japan and the USA, making abstract sculpture.


• Australian studio potter and teacher Moon Milton is well known for his large wheel-thrown stoneware platters and vessels inspired by the Australian landscape.


• Sally Resnik Rockriver generates chemical reactions in blown glass and ceramics, creating 'geochemical formations' through high temperature crystal growth.


• Lynn Duryea is an American ceramist known for her abstract sculpture, as well as for being a founder of the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts.


• American ceramist Richard Notkin is well known for his socio-critical re-interpretations of the Yixing teapot as well as other works, e.g. his monumental tile mural 'The Gift'.


• The 'Keramikgruppe Grenzhausen' - is a German ceramics co-operative seated in the old German pottery center of Höhr-Grenzhausen. Their ceramics range from functional wares to sculptural work.


• Florida based ceramist Brian Hively makes organic, abstract and semi-abstract sculpture inspired by nature and environmental concerns and suggestive of ‘universal’ biomorphic forms.


• Tarik Ibrahim, Waleed Qaisi and Sa'ad Shakir are three Iraqi ceramists. All three make their own unique style of ceramic sculpture.
• Husband-wife pair Melody Ellis & Matt Wilt both make their own individual, extraordinary ceramic sculpture.


• Justin Novak's incredible raku sculptures are not for the faint at heart. Their angst-ridden themes probe deep into our hearts...


• Stan Welsh makes large, stylized, narrative, often enigmatic terracotta head forms with heavy incising and carving filled with brightly colored glazes.


• American ceramic sculptor Jeff Schmuki makes hand-built, laminated and compressed sculptural objects, site responsive installations and clay drawings, which represent the Mississippi landscape.


• Indian studio potter Madhvi Subrahmanian lives in the USA, where she makes characteristic coil-built sculptural vessels referencing forms representing fertility and abundance, seeds, shells and pods.


• Taiwanese ceramist Shao Ting-Ju makes narrative mixed-media installations, incorporating comical, hand-built multiples of the human figure and birds.


• US studio potter Kristen Kieffer makes wheel-thrown, altered and soda-fired sculptural vessels inspired by Elizabethan to couture clothing, 18th century American silver and Islamic patterning and metal-working.


• American ceramist Beth Cavener Stichter uses animal body language as a metaphor for human psychology, e.g. aggression, fear, apathy, violence and powerlessness, transforming animal subjects into human psychological portraits.


• American studio potter Warren MacKenzie celebrated his 80th birthday this year. he continues to make affordable pots inspired by Yanagi's 'mingei' philosophy.


• Jun Kaneko is an internationally recognized American sculptor. He has become well known for his large-scale, stylized ceramic heads and 'dangos'.


• Robert Harrison has become known for his site-specific sculptures and museum installations of ‘stacks’, gateways referencing architectural forms.


• Neil Tetkowski creates environmentally inspired large-scale clay mandala discs and performances involving clay installations of various kinds.


• American studio potter and teacher Richard Fairbanks was an atypical American potter, drawing inspiration from his travels and research in Finland and Eastern Europe.


• Nesta Nala and Clive Sithole are two contemporary South African Zulu potters who have gained recognition beyond the borders of their home country.


• Three Greek artists, who are at the forefront of contemporary Greek ceramics: Stella Bakatsi, Theodora Chorafas and Nikos Sklavenitis.


• Jack Sures is a prominent Canadian ceramist making wheel-thrown, vessel-based work as well as hand-built sculpture.


• Award winning Hungarian ceramist Maria Geszler-Garzuly has become widely known for her humanoid bottle shapes, onto which she transfers surface designs.


• Patrick Mateescu is a Romanian-American ceramist making public and other large-scale sculpture in stoneware.


• Maija Grotell was an award-winning American studio potter and teacher known for her brushed-on colored slips and glazes.


• Adelaide Paul is known for her exquisite animal sculptures, which sculptures are on display at the Garth Clark Gallery in New York until June 26.


• Michael Moore is an Irish ceramist making highly polished, abstract sculpture inspired by the Irish landscape.


• Gudrun Klix' sculptures are inspired by the desert landscape around Alice Springs, Central Australia and are are loosely based on land forms as viewed from the air.


• American studio potter Harding Black led a distinguished career that spanned more than six decades.


• Regina Heinz is an Austrian ceramist resident in Britain, who makes hand built, abstract ceramic sculpture.


• Uraguchi Masayuki has become a rising star of Japanese celadon.


• Charlie Krafft - a look at a controversial American ceramist from Seattle.


• Phil Rogers is a British studio potter making salt-glazed vessels and reduction-fired stoneware inspired by Korean and European Medieval ceramics.


• Eva Zeisel is a Hungarian-born American studio potter and designer of ceramics. The influence of the Bauhaus is evident in her elegant designs.


• Gurucharan and Mansimran Singh, father and son, are two pioneer potters from Delhi, India.


• The eccentric Martin Brothers became famous for their grotesquely modeled ‘Wally Birds’ and other works inspired by the pottery of the Middle Ages.


• Yanze Jiang is a progressive Chinese ceramist and teacher working mainly in porcelain.


• Robert Compton - a versatile American potter from Bristol, Vermont, where he makes wheel-thrown, wood-fired and salt-glazed stoneware as well as raku and pit-fired work.


• Olaf Stevens is a Dutch ceramist, glass maker, designer and teacher based in the historical town of Gorinchem.


• Kevin White was born in Britain, trained in Japan and lives in Australia. This eclectic mix shines through in his porcelain vessels.


• Ashraf Hanna is an Egyptian potter living in Britain. His enigmatic vessels are burnished and smoke-fired.


• Leza Marie McVey was a pioneering American potter, in many ways ahead of her time.


• Prue Venables is an australian ceramist known for her minimalist, monochrome porcelain vessels.


• Jack Troy is an accomplished American wood-firer and teacher. He is well known for his numerous lectures and workshops, articles and two books. A widely accepted authority on anagama-firing!


• Carolinda Tolstoy is a flamboyant British potter of Middle Eastern background making pottery inspired by Iznik ware and other Islamic pottery.


• Maria Martinez, pueblo potter of the Southwest lived in the San Ildefonso pueblo in northern New Mexico, where she made traditional Native American wares.


• Barbara Nanning is well known for her ceramic sculpture inspired by flowers and other objects from the macro and microcosm.


• Gert Knäpper is a German potter living in Japan. He stunned the Japanese ceramics community by winning several prestigious Japanese awards.


• Piet Stockmans is a prominent Belgian designer, who has concentrated on blue and white throughout his career.


• Aline Favre is a Swiss ceramic artist balancing black stoneware with white porcelain in her finely balanced sculptures.


• Linda Gunn-Russell is a British ceramist making distinct sculptural pots with a twist.


• Giovanni Maria Vasaro - Truly a master of Italian maiolica of the 16th century. Vasaro worked in the istoriato and raphaelesque styles of maiolica painting.


• Raku Kichizaemon XV - the son of the 14th Raku master Kakunyu. He became the 15th Raku master in 1981.


• Victor Schreckengost - the American designer made the world famous 'Jazz Bowls', one of which was purchased by Eleanor Roosevelt.


• Marilyn Levine - I can't believe it's not leather! Levine's dogged interpretation of that bovine material reveals a skill with clay matched by few.


• Rimas Visgirda - Lithuanian-American potter working with decals and onglazes.


• Anne Hirondelle - Soda ash glazed sculptural stoneware vessels


• Vipoo Srivilasa - Thai-Australia ceramic artist, making works reminiscent of West Coast Funk.


• Adelaide Alsop Robineau - An American art deco ceramist, famous for her 'Scarab Vase'.


• David Gilhooly - talks about his first Frog Pot and the secret life of Frogs.


• Gary Wornell - a diverse Canadian artist living in Finland


• Ursula Scheid - a contemporary German artist potter working in stoneware.


• Vivienne Foley - a successful studio potter based in London


• Pippin Drysdale - stylish and colorful vessels by an Australian artist-potter.


• Early Japanese Pottery - shards from the earliest pottery vessels known in the world, about 16,000 years old, have been found at the Kamino site in southwestern Japan.


• Lucy Lewis - famous Native American potter of the Acoma Pueblo, in America's southwest.


• Minerva Chango - a Venezuelan potter making functional wood-fired work with a sculptural flavor.


• Portland Vase - a famous 'Black Basalt' vase by English ceramic innovator Josiah Wedgwood.


• Astrid Gerhartz - German potter working in fine porcelain; also uses water-soluble metal salts.


• Hans Coper - an influential modernist ceramist with a 'continental' sensibility.


• Claude Champy - a potter working in the best of French ceramic traditions.


• Ruth Duckworth - well-known resident American artist with a distinct aesthetic.


• Rudi Staffel - famous for his 'Light Gatherer' porcelain pieces, Staffel is an accomplished American ceramist.


• Les Lawrence - A master of screenprinting on clay and inventor of novel ways of making decals.


• Peter Voulkos - An American icon and father of expressionism in American ceramics.


• Yixing - the traditional Chinese red stoneware teapot, now as sought after in the West as in the East.


• Jeroen Bechtold - a Dutch potter in the heart of Amsterdam


• Thomas Toft - The Toft family is said to have made their distinctive slipwares in 17th C Staffordshire. But is there more to it than meets the eye?


• Peter Callas - an American potter who has been influenced by the Japanese wood-firing tradition, as well as the work of his friend and collaborator Peter Voulkos.


• Joseph Ekberg - Swedish Art Nouveau designer who worked for the Gustavsberg Porcelain Factory from 1897 until 1945.


• Bernard Leach - the grand old master of English pottery at his best - a beautifully shaped bottle vase from with wavy lines that enhance the form.


• Tony Ferguson - American potter, master in the art of Anagama firing, in his own words.


• Dorothy Feibelman - makes vessels of delicately patterned clay using a technique known as neriage.


• Bodil Manz - Danish eggshell porcelain.


• Ah Leon - Yixing meets contemporary Illusionism.


• Xing Liangkun - a prolific Chinese potter, who not only makes pottery, but collects, writes and has developed many ceramics-related patents.


• Raymond Elozua - is a contemporary American artist famous for his deconstructed vessels and other ceramic sculpture.


• Gary Molitor - is a California based artist working in clay, mixed media and in 2D media.


• Ken Ferguson - is a distinguished, innovative American studio potter, who taught for many years at Kansas City Art Institute. His students include many successful contemporary ceramicists.


• Fujisan - is one of Japans most revered Raku Tea Bowls, made by Hon'ami Koetsu around 1600.


• Jean François Fouilhoux - is a contemporary French studio potter melding the traditional Chinese celadon glaze with a typically French free-form aesthetic.


• Grayson Perry - is a British ceramist, visual artist & writer, who uses pottery as a weapon for social criticism.


• Owen Rye - is a distinguished Australian Anagama-firing studio potter.


• Matsui Kosei - the 'Living National Treasure' is a master of Neriage, a time-consuming technique, whereby different colored clays are mixed, rolled out, cut and reassembled.


• Kurt Weiser - an American studio potter who has become well know for his meticulously executed allegorical imagery painted on porcelain with onglaze colors.


• Roseline Delisle - Canadian studio potter now living in California. She makes work inspired by Geometric Abstraction.


• Nabeshima Platter - Nabeshima ware was a type of very rare and expensive Imari porcelain produced in the kilns of the Nabeshima clan.


• Dan Dermer - an American studio artist specializing in ash-type glazes.


• Rockwell Kent - American Art Deco illustrator and printmaker, worked for Vermon Kilns, producing classic American series in clay.


• Michael Lucero - American clay sculptor. Surprisingly, his surrealistic work has been strongly influenced by Native American Pueblo art.