Ceramics of United Kingdom

Bath / United Kingdom

Beaux Arts Bath is a gallery on York Street in Bath that shows paintings and sculpture as well as ceramics.

Best for Paintings, sculpture and ceramics

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Dundee

Dundee Ceramics Workshop is an open-access ceramics studio welcoming everyone from complete beginners to practising artists. It offers classes, membership studio space, kiln hire and events across an open-plan workshop in the city.

Best for Pottery classes, studio access and kiln hire

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Partick, Glasgow

A shop selling mid-century furniture, lighting, ceramics, fabrics, clothing, records, and locally poured candles. Jill Rodger runs the shop.

Best for Mid-century furniture, lighting, ceramics, records

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Southside

Working pottery studio and shop on Pollokshaws Road in Glasgow's Southside, founded by potter Jen Smith in 2019, producing wheel-thrown functional stoneware for the home and table.

Best for Wheel-thrown functional stoneware made in-studio

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Leeds / United Kingdom

Evergreen Gallery in the Leeds Corn Exchange shows ceramics and art glass by leading makers in the UK.

Best for Ceramics and art glass by UK makers

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London / Notting Hill

Maureen Doherty's concept store — Japanese-inspired clothing, ceramics, and the most beautiful retail space in Notting Hill. A cult destination.

Best for Japanese-inspired clothing, ceramics, cult concept store.

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Columbia Road (61 Columbia Rd, E2 7RG) / Online

Independent London importer working directly with Mexican artists and workshops on handmade tiles, glassware, baskets, pottery and folk art.

Best for Mexican artists and workshops on handmade tiles, glassware, baskets

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Northern Quarter (6 Bradley St, M1 1EH) / Online

Independent Manchester design shop curating ceramics, glassware, candles, textiles, paper goods and small-batch home objects.

Best for Ceramics, candles, glassware, and paper goods

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Rose Street, New Town

ANTA designs and hand-crafts tartan textiles, stoneware and rugs in the Highlands, and its Rose Street shop in the New Town carries throws, cushions, ceramics and scarves. The house palette leans on muted Scottish checks and herringbone.

Best for Scottish tartan homeware

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High Street, Burford

An antiques centre set in the historic George, a former Burford inn, where several dealers share rooms of period furniture, silver, ceramics, jewellery and pictures. The timber-framed building gives the centre its warren of display spaces.

Best for Period antiques from multiple dealers

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Co. Fermanagh, Belleek

Belleek Pottery, established in 1857, produces fine china, pottery, tableware and glassware, including tea and dinner sets, cutlery and giftware.

Best for Fine irish china and tableware

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Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool

A registered charity gallery and shop inside the Bluecoat arts centre, it represents around 250 British craftspeople working in ceramics, jewellery, textiles and glass. The centre pairs a retail shop with rotating exhibitions and maker talks, channelling proceeds back into supporting craft practice rather than shareholder profit.

Best for Contemporary British craft, ceramics and jewellery

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38a Burgate, Canterbury

Canterbury Pottery has thrown high-fired stoneware at 38a Burgate, in the shadow of the cathedral, since Betty Chapman founded it in 1963, with her son Richard developing the studio's deep library of glazes over decades. The workshop behind the shop makes mugs, jugs, bowls, garden pots and ecclesiastical pieces, each finished by hand.

Best for Hand-thrown stoneware

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Clovelly village, North Devon

Trading in the village since 1992, Clovelly Pottery gathers work from potters across the West Country and offers pottery-painting sessions in the shop. The gallery ranges from functional stoneware to decorative studio ceramics.

Best for West Country studio ceramics

Clapton Row, Bourton-on-the-Water

A small studio pottery on Clapton Row producing wheel-thrown and hand-built stoneware sold directly from the workshop. Its potters make functional domestic ware alongside decorative and sculptural pieces.

Best for Hand-thrown studio stoneware

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Kings Heath (High Street)

A Kings Heath shop and gallery on the High Street selling handcrafted jewellery, pottery, candles, and stationery sourced from independent makers. The stock rotates through work by British designers and small studios.

Best for Handmade jewellery and ceramics

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Salisbury, Wiltshire (restored Victorian grain mill near the railway station)

Set in a restored Victorian grain mill, Fisherton Mill combines maker studios with the South's largest independent art gallery, a design and gift shop and an award-winning café. Its stock runs from original art and ceramics to textiles, glasswork, jewellery and cards.

Best for Original local art, contemporary craft and unique gifts

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Fore Street, Fowey

A commercial art gallery set in a Georgian merchant's house on Fore Street, hanging paintings, ceramics, sculpture and jewellery by artists working across Cornwall. The ground floor doubles as a gift shop of homeware, cards, scarves and small Cornish-made pieces.

Best for Cornish art and gifts

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East Looe, Cornwall, England

Heather Jane & Co runs a Fore Street shop in East Looe showcasing work from roughly 200 independent Southwest England makers, part of a small collective with sister shops in Fowey, Tavistock, Porthleven, and St Ives. Each maker applies individually to display handmade art, ceramics, textiles, and jewellery rather than mass-produced stock.

Best for Handmade art and gifts from Southwest makers

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Stirchley (Pershore Road)

A Stirchley florist on Pershore Road specialising in dried flowers alongside ceramics and lifestyle goods. The shop leans toward long-lasting, sustainable arrangements.

Best for Dried flowers and ceramics

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Passage Street, Fowey

A working pottery studio and shop on Passage Street beside the river, opposite the RNLI lifeboat station, where Laura Lane makes illustrated plates, stoneware and gift pieces to order. She took on the long-running Fowey pottery after supplying it since 2012.

Best for Handmade Cornish pottery

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St Ives / United Kingdom

Milieu Studios is a contemporary art gallery and online store founded by painter Caroline Robinson in 2023, showing seasonal exhibitions of UK-based artists from its St Ives storefront. Current pieces for sale range from Eska Marsh's framed prints to Nerys Cheesebrough's ceramic vessels, all purchasable online or in the gallery.

Best for Art Gallery, Contemporary Art, Ceramics

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Brewery Court, Cirencester

A craft centre in the converted Victorian brewery buildings at Brewery Court, housing resident makers' studios, galleries and a shop selling ceramics, textiles, jewellery and prints by British designer-makers. It also runs courses and exhibitions and keeps a cafe on site.

Best for Contemporary British craft and maker studios

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St Ives / United Kingdom

Founded in 1965 by potter Janet Leach, the New Craftsman Gallery has spent sixty years showing ceramics, jewelry, and painting from artists tied to the St Ives art scene, including early champions of Lucie Rie and Bernard Leach. The gallery runs a full calendar of rotating exhibitions and ships purchased artworks nationally and internationally.

Best for Art & Craft Gallery, Ceramics, Jewelry

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Polperro / United Kingdom

Based in Corner Cottage on the Quayside in Polperro, Ocean's Studio is the largest South West stockist of Moorcroft art pottery, alongside East African paintings and antique ceramics sourced through a vetted network of artists. Visitors can browse in person or reserve pieces through the online shop, with UK-wide courier delivery available.

Best for Art & Ceramics, Moorcroft Pottery, Paintings

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Port Isaac / United Kingdom

This family-run Port Isaac shop — now based in the old Sunday School building next to Chapel Café — sells handmade ceramics thrown on-site by Billy, Barbara and Faye Hawkins alongside a curated range of lifestyle gifts and Faye Hawkins' paintings. The shop is open every day, with slightly shorter winter hours from November through March.

Best for Pottery & Ceramics, Gifts

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Broughty Ferry

Run by two Duncan of Jordanstone graduates at 299 Brook Street in Broughty Ferry, Pretty Fly Workshop handles bespoke commissions, engagement rings, engraving and enamelwork alongside repairs and recasting. The shop also stocks jewellery, ceramics, prints and textiles from more than fifty Scottish art-school graduates.

Best for Handmade and bespoke jewellery plus work by Scottish makers

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King's Parade

Primavera has shown British studio craft and contemporary art since Henry Rothschild opened it in 1945, early on championing potters such as Lucie Rie and Bernard Leach. The King's Parade gallery sells ceramics, jewellery, glass, textiles and paintings from established and emerging makers.

Best for British studio ceramics and craft

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Pershore Street, city centre

A Birmingham design store selling apparel and homeware built around the city itself, trading on the line 'made by Brummies, for Brummies.' The shop carries locally themed prints, ceramics, and gifts from its Jubilee Trade Centre space on Pershore Street.

Best for Birmingham-themed design and gifts

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Frisco (adjacent to Buxton, Hatteras Island)

Potters Wes Lassiter and Rhonda Bates have made work side by side for more than 25 years, and their Frisco studio sells hand-thrown and slab-built ceramics alongside paintings, prints, ornaments and jewelry. The working studio sits on Hatteras Island a few miles down Highway 12 from Buxton.

Best for Handmade coastal pottery and paintings

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Rye, East Sussex

This design-led British pottery, established in 1793, hand-makes tin-glazed English Delftware — striped jugs, blue-and-white ware and figures. Every piece passes through at least ten hand processes.

Best for Hand-decorated tin-glazed ceramics and collectable figures

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City Centre (Buchanan Galleries)

A social-enterprise store in Buchanan Galleries representing more than 300 Scottish artists and makers, who keep almost all of each sale rather than paying commission. Shelves carry prints, ceramics, jewellery, textiles and stationery produced across Scotland.

Best for Scottish-made gifts, prints and jewellery

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St Ives / United Kingdom

St Ives Ceramics is a shop on Fish Street in St Ives selling contemporary and historic studio ceramics.

Best for Studio ceramics

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Commonhall Street

The Arc on Commonhall Street shows contemporary British craft, from studio ceramics and art glass to designer-maker jewellery and metalwork. The gallery represents established and emerging makers and rotates exhibitions of handmade work.

Best for Contemporary British craft

Old Silk Mill, Sheep Street

A makers' cooperative in the historic Silk Mill representing ceramicists, woodturners, glass and metal workers, textile artists, and jewellers. Pieces on show range from Phil Irons' turned hollow forms and Amanda Glanville's ceramic toadstools to Mary Day's painted silk.

Best for Cooperative craft, ceramics, wood, textiles, jewellery

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Mousehole / United Kingdom

The Joel Gallery on Commercial Road in Mousehole shows and sells work by the Joel family and a dozen other, mostly Cornish, artists, from original paintings and prints to Beth's textile doorstops and cushions. Visited by appointment, it doubles as a place to book a painting or pottery lesson with the makers.

Best for Art gallery, paintings, prints, textiles

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St Ives / United Kingdom

The Leach Pottery combines a working ceramics studio, museum, and shop founded in the tradition of Bernard Leach, selling Leach Standard Ware and pieces from featured potters both online and in its St Ives storefront. Visitors can browse the new online shop or pop into the physical space to see production alongside the retail offerings.

Best for Leach Pottery combines a working ceramics studio, museum

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High Street

The Stratford Gallery represents contemporary British and international painters, studio ceramicists and sculptors from its Broadway premises. It stages a rotating programme of solo and group shows.

Best for Contemporary art and ceramics

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Whichford, Warwickshire

The Keeling family has thrown frost-proof terracotta by hand at this Warwickshire workshop on the Cotswold edge since 1976, producing more than 500 pot designs from small seedpans to towering Longtoms. Visitors can watch potters at the wheel, walk the walled flower garden, and eat at The Straw Kitchen café on site.

Best for Handmade terracotta garden pots

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Windsor / United Kingdom

Windsor Vintage is a bricks-and-mortar antiques and collectibles shop in Windsor's historic town centre, personally curating Art Deco pieces, West and East German pottery, and militaria. Customers can browse and buy the same inventory in person or through the shop's online store.

Best for Art Deco, German pottery, militaria and collectibles

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