‘There is prose and there is poetry.In pottery there seems to remain a possibility for providing both,sometimes in the same object.Pottery can be about design or about art and occasionally both.Pots succeed because they move the spirit,like art,or because they exactly fill a requirement,like design.That one discipline can straddle both areas with dual emphasis is distinctive’.(Britton,1994:7) Prose is a form of language that has a grammatical structure while poetry uses the aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language which bring or recall a feeling,memory,or image to the conscious mind.This paper is a comparison and evaluation of the work of Richard Batterham (b.1936) and Sara Radstone (b.1955).Batterham is a production potter making functional wares while Radstone's work is sculptural.However,they both use the language of clay to produce work which has both a grammatical structure (prose) while at the same time evoking feeling and memory (poetry).A description of their work is linked by a brief review of the changing landscape of craft and art since 1900.
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