Europe’s premier ceramics fair, Ceramic Art London, returns to Olympia in West London. Running over three days from Friday, May 9th to Sunday, May 11th, 2025, it will showcase 120 makers from around the world. Tickets cost £20.

The Fair offers visitors the opportunity to meet and talk to the makers directly. The starting price range for pieces to buy is under £50 going up to beyond £10,000 making it both accessible to new buyers and important to serious collectors.

Price ranges of works for sale

Under £100

Matthew Blakely is an internationally known potter selling, amongst larger pieces, small 6cm, woodfired cups for £50 (top left image) as well as tea bowls at 8cm with granite glaze for £70. Some of his granite is collected in Cornwall.

Alison Tomlin is a maker with a background in graphic design who works in porcelain. She has stem vases which are always popular. These are £48 and are often sold in groups of three or more to make sets.

Moyra Stewart is based in Scotland and makes pebbles and boulders in naked raku which are incredibly smooth, tactile and very rocklike. The lowest price is £30 and the highest £750.

£250

Lise Herud Braten works in decorative and sculptural forms with highly textured, expressive surfaces. Her work is deeply rooted in the rugged landscape she grew up in in Norway. She has Moon-vase, 11.5cm height, wheel-thrown and hand carved, white stoneware clay with layered slips, engobes, oxides, glazes and crackle glaze. £245. Her moon vases are priced up to £4,000 (see top right image).

Dee Barnes is inspired by Staffordshire figurines and Sevres Porcelain. ‘Tiger candle holders’ are hand built and inspired by Staffordshire Tiger Flatbacks. The pair are for sale for £260. Each measures 12cms x 12cms and is made using earthenware clay with slip and underglazes. See bottom middle image.

Sue Gunn’s work explores visual and conceptual parallels between the body’s inner structure and flow systems found in the natural world. Lava flow candlestick is 27cm high, hand built paper porcelain lava glaze and priced at £225.

£500

Caroline Egleston designs and makes ceramic compositions. Spontaneous, painterly gestures are captured on the surface and fixed by firing. She makes tiles for interiors as well as works of art. Folio xvi is ceramic, slip and glaze pigments, 70 x 44 cm. It is painted on a plaster batt and then transferred to the ceramic surface and priced at £500.

Sun Kim is a Korean ceramicist raised in Brazil. She received her first BA in fine arts and continued ceramics studies in United States where she got her second BA. In 2004 she started to start a studio assistantship with Edmund de Waal before setting up her own practice in 2007. ‘Tea Set’ is 14.5cm high, wheel thrown, high fired stoneware with matt glaze and priced at £500.

Gaby Guz has two great passions, ceramics and life drawing. Her wheel thrown saggar fired pots are without glaze such as stoneware/porcelain pot with burnished terrasigillata, 14cm high at £500. The surface decoration is made through rapid firing and created by smoke and different metals.