Andrew Marshall spent much of his childhood absorbed with Korean and Japanese pottery and figures like Rosanjin, as well as the unknown masters of earlier times that he looked up to. He soon took up the craft and has studied in some depth the Flemish and German slipwares and Moravian country pottery alongside works of the Hakeme and Karatsu masters of old Japan.

 Like his father William before him, he determined early on to make slipware and stoneware alongside one another, seeing both as equally important today.

 Andrew loves the austere landscapes of Flanders, the Kempen and Brabant where many consider the northern Renaissance to have bequeathed us so much of value. Of late, he has been inspired by the poetry of Guido Gezelle and F Timmermans.  The Cornish landscapes of earlier years are ever present too.