This is page is set up by Bill Crumbleholme from Upwey, Weymouth, Dorset, England
Last revised: 24th August 2012

Portrait of Bill, taken by Robin Mills
and featured on cover of the Marshwood Vale Magazine May 2009 visit Robin's website and the Marshwood Vale Mag to read the accompanying article - which tells all you every wanted to know about Bill (and a lot more!)

Bill is in business with his wife, Diane, follow this link to see what Artseeker Ltd is all about.

Bill can be found on Facebook, together with some of the bodies he works with and promotes :-

Bill Albert Crumbleholme

Artseeker Ltd

Artwey CIC

Crumbleholme's worldwide

Nurdlers of Dorsetshire

Dorset Pottery Group

Upwey Old School Village Hall : Users & Fans

Bill works as a studio potter.

This is his potter's mark, found on all his work. It is made using his grandfather's sealing wax seal - William Crumbleholme.

Visit Bill's webpages about his pottery at Beaker Folk
www.beakerfolk.co.uk

Bill has been working with the Ancient Wessex Network, creative people and organisations that work in the Heritage Industry.
www.ancientwessex.net

Artwey is a group set up by artists in Weymouth & Portland, they run Open Studios events and other stuff! Artseeker provides consultancy and website services for them - see www.artwey.co.uk

Upwey Potters

Bill is a founder member of The Upwey Potters
visit www.upweypotters.com
to see a new style website with latest news and details of Exhibitions & Workshops.

 

Find out about Bill's Pottery Evening Classes , Sunday Sessions and the Pottery Taster Workshops for Groups and Parties.

Bill has run several very successful Group Tasters, including a couple for Hen Parties!

Bill's big brother, Richard is an authority on the Windmills of Dorset (well it gets him out of the house now and then!). Take a look at the researches on the Dorset Windmills website at this link.

Dorset Pottery Group

Bill is involved with this Group. The group's website has been set up under its own domain name at www.dorsetpotterygroup.co.uk

Annual exhibitions are staged at Bridport Art Centre. See details of activities, exhibitions and the Bridport Millennium Ammonite Project

View my page on Weymouth Arts Network
 

Bill is involved with the Dorset Village Halls Association

This mosiac was made by Bill as a copy of one in the Dorset County Museum, he is currently producing the small cubes using different coloured clays - for use at the Roman inspired events that he is doing with the Ancient Wessex Network and with the aim of selling them as DIY kits alongside his pots at the Dorset County Museum.

Much of Bill's recent output has been inspired by prehistoric pottery, to the extent that he occassionally dresses up as a Bronze Age potter and lurks about firing handmade urns in bonfires at "Historic Events"!

Visit webpages about Beaker Folk - based on Bill's research into Bronze Age artifacts and his experimental archaeology.
www.beakerfolk.co.uk

Bill took part in the 2007 Inside Out Festival, appearing at Hambledon Hill - see here for what was involved.

Take a look at this link to see a video of a bonfire firing of some replicas of Bronze Age Beakers belonging to the Amesbury Archer.

Bill appeared lurking in the background of a Team Team episode in 1999 and has been making repilicas of Celtic Dorset Iron Age Black Burnished Ware

Bill's 2003 project was at Bestwall near Wareham in Dorset. He rebuilt one of the actual Roman kilns uncovered by archeologists digging ahead of gravel extractors.
Follow this link to see some more images.

Bill is carrying out research into the production of Black Burnished Ware, Follow this link for more information.

Bill's "Fusion Ware" combining several cultures
Bronze Age Beakers shapes and herring-bone decoration
Chinese Tenmoku glaze inside
Soda Fired "Raw" for the outside sheen.
Follow this link to see more images.

"Could've Fooled Me", "Could've Fooled Me Too" , "Could've Fooled Me III" and "Could've Fooled Me IV" were exhibitions featuring contemporary art works, staged at the the Upwey Old School in early April 2007, 2011 and 2012 and at the Monkton Gallery in early April 2006.

The 2011 & 2012 events are recorded on the Artseeker website at this link.
See some of Bill's and other artists catalogued work from earlier years here. Including a multi-media investigation of communication breakdown entitled ironically "Artspeak"

Bill and his fellow RAFT artists staged "Artyfacts" - a major project with the Dorset County Museum during 2004, in which artists created their responses to articles on display. Bill made Bronze Age Beakers and Bucket Urns


follow this link to see how they were made & fired.

Bill was involved with making a labyrinth at Monkton Wyld Court,

he made Bronze Age style pots to be incorporated into the labyrinth goals. Follow this link for the story

This dish has been glazed with radial stripes, where they overlap the different thicknesses result in different colours and opacities.
See some similar bowls here.

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Published by Bill Crumbleholme
40 Elwell St, Upwey, Weymouth, Dorset DT3 5QF United Kingdom
Home phone number 01305 812030
Electronic mail address :- bill@upweypotters.com
Web address via :- www.upweypotters.com

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