Biography
David Garland (b. UK 1941) grew up in New Zealand. In 1961 he returned and trained at the London College of Printing. Later, he taught there, and at the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, as a senior lecturer. His first one-man exhibition of paintings was at the Drian Galleries in 1963. In 1972 he was taught to make pots by the potter Jonathan Atkinson, and set up a small pottery in Oxford. In 1975 he moved with his family to the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, where he built painting and pottery studios and a large wood-fired kiln. He makes slipware, painted with oxides - cobalt, manganese, copper and iron, fired in an electric kiln.
