Biography for Geoffrey Eastop

Childhood

Geoffrey Eastop's work is of low-fired stoneware, sometimes thrown but usually handbuilt using a personal technique with 'tickets' of clay pinched together.

Education

From 1949-1952 Geoffrey trained as a painter at Goldsmiths College, London and at the Academie Ranson, Paris.

Employment

In the early 1950s Geoffrey joined the Odney Pottery in Cockham as a temporary expedient intending to return to painting as soon as he was able to. During the late 50s and early 60s he continued to work as a potter with Alan Caiger-Smith but the idea grew in his mind that somehow he would learn to combine his painter's instincts with the craft skills of a potter.