Henry Hammond

Henry Hammond

Henry Hammond (1914–89) led a long and successful career as a potter and a teacher of potters at the art school in Farnham, where he worked from the completion of his war service in 1946 until 1979. For much of this period Hammond also had his pottery workshop in nearby Bentley, which, after 1954, was a joint studio with Paul Barron, his equally committed colleague at the West Surrey College of Art and Design. Hammond’s long association with Farnham and the local area is perpetuated through the preservation of his archive at the Crafts Study Centre. This valuable resource includes sketches, correspondence, professional papers, and personal notebooks. Funding from the Henry Hammond Memorial Trust c.2006 enabled the production of this essay which provides a gateway to the Henry Hammond material at the Crafts Study Centre.