Tim Andrews is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 studio potter

Studio potter

A studio potter is one who is a modern artist, who either works alone or in a small group, producing unique items of pottery in small quantities, typically with all stages of manufacture carried out by themselves. Studio pottery includes functional wares such as tableware or cookware, and...

 making distinctive smoke-fired and raku ceramics exhibited internationally.

Andrews trained as an apprentice to David Leach

David Leach (potter)

David Andrew Leach was an English studio potter and the eldest son of Bernard Leach and Muriel Hoyle Leach, Bernard's first wife....

 and studied at Dartington Pottery Training Workshop before setting up his first studio in 1981.He returned to share the workshop at Lowerdown with David 1986-93 and now has a very successful studio at Woodbury in Devon.

He is a fellow of the Craft Potters Association and has published a number of books on the craft of raku.

His work is found both in public and private collections including: Stoke on Trent and Liverpool Museums, Ashmolean Museum

Ashmolean Museum

The Ashmolean Museum on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is the world's first university museum...

, St. John's College, Oxford, Donna Karan

Donna Karan

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, New York, Lord Chancellor Lord Irving, Imerys

Imerys

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 and The Royal Bank of Scotland.