David and Margaret Frith are ceramic artists based at Brookhouse Pottery in North Wales. They established their first workshop in Denbigh in 1963 before moving to The Malt House in 1976, an 18th-century former woollen mill later used as a brewery, which remains David’s working studio.
Margaret Frith (1943 – 2026) worked primarily in porcelain, creating intimate, highly individual pieces that were often faceted, fluted or altered through surface techniques such as carving, brushwork and reduction glazes. Her work was finely detailed and responsive to form, with a strong sensitivity to surface and finish.
David is known for his mastery of the potter’s wheel, producing larger-scale vessels decorated in his distinctive style. This includes the Japanese hakeme brush technique, rope impressions and wax-resist motifs, all enhanced through heavy reduction glazes and ashed surfaces.
Their work was fired in wood or gas reduction kilns, a process central to the depth, variation and richness of surface that characterises their ceramics.
