Chris Carter's personal involvement with farming and the landscape give him a special empathy with his native Britain. He's a genuine "son of the soil" who has worked the land for a living and who still works with some of the substance of that "land" to make his vessels.

Within the many layers of his unique glazes, that are first built up and then partially taken back with abrasion and multiple firings, there is contained a search for the essence of an ancient landscape and for the shadows of its creators.

These gleanings, so passionately sought, reveal themselves only gradually, like flint artefacts occasionally turned up by the plough.