About Us

Gary Hambleton Studio Potter 

I was born in London UK 1958 and immigrated to Australia in 1973.

 I started at Courtland’s Pottery in 1974 where I was taught by Barry and Grenville Courtland.  Courtland’s produced a large range of Terracotta Garden Pottery in its earlier  years and  salt glazed stoneware early last century.  A family business with skills past down over the last  160 years in Australia. I was lucky to get my training there!   

 In 1979 I started work at Austware Pottery making stoneware being paid by the piece “piece  work” until September 1985 when I was asked to be the resident potter at the Old Cheese  Factory in Balingup. Over the next three years developing my own style of work. I built The  Old Stables Pottery “My own pottery” in 1989 where I made a wide range of domestic  stoneware and one off pieces until 2004, when I sold up and moved to Nepal to live with my  wife Tara and son James. In Nepal I spent time working with potters in remote villages  learning how pots have been made with primitive technology for thousands of years,  “Amazing”.

 On one of our trips back to Australia I spent a summer working at Happs Pottery. In 2010 I  moved back to Australia with two more kids Jason and Isha to start again. I now am working  from a small studio at home in Bunbury.“Inspiration” comes easily from a rich history of  form, texture and colour, and from just about every culture on earth plus a love and passion for what I do. After all these years I am still like a little kid at Christmas waiting to see the results and surprised from the next kilm load.I love my work and hope you do to!