It is not surprising that Lisa Hammond has been described as the best woman potter working in Britain at the moment. I would go further. I would say that she is a prominent member of a very elite group of perhaps ten potters who, irrespective of style, gender or genre, are at the very top of a very competitive ladder. Hammond’s recent work exudes the strength, style and finesse of a potter at the very peak of her form. Classic yet somehow contemporary, crisply defined yet with a softness of...
