Emmanuel Cooper is a distinguished working potter, Former editor of Ceramic Review and Visiting Professor, Ceramic and Glass, at the Royal College of Art.

My work is influenced by the urban city environment, by such things as hard, textured surfaces, by street lighting, traffic lights, endless movement and sense of urgency. Colours are those of roads, pavements and building, textures those we encounter in the metropolis. The pots are thrown on the wheel, but more recently they are hand-built by coiling. All the work is fired to 1260˚C in an electric kiln.