Pierre Williams

Pierre trained and worked as a Toolmaker and development engineer. This satisfied him for a while, but he was desperate to be more creative. “I had always had a passion for art and this was always a primary focus for me since childhood and an urge to pursue it was not going away.”

Pierre taught himself how to paint with oils and made sculptures with metal and other materials, but didn't know how to be an artist or how an artist should work, this kept him in a kind of limbo of producing some pieces, but not knowing what to do next. Eventually at the age of thirty two he sold his house and enrolled on a Foundation course at Hereford college of Art, where he discovered he was interested in ceramics. “I felt this gave me everything I wanted as regards form, colour and texture”

This led onto a degree course at Cardiff where he honed the skill of throwing on the potter's wheel and studying stoneware glazes.

​As well as working at his studio he also ran the ceramic department at Hereford college of Art and then moving to teach at the Royal National College for the Blind. “This work allowed me to develop a direct way of working with clay which came from constantly doing quick demos for the students which is still active in my work today. I also gained an incredible amount of knowledge in this field during this time.”