Hylton Nel

Signed on the underside "HN 13/1.99." This is the most recently made work in this exhibition. Hylton Nel has written about his interest in making tin-glazed earthenware, "Another brilliant writer and interesting potter is Alan Caiger-Smith whose description of the first impact of tin glaze on European sensibility is more or less etched on my memory. He says that after the brown earthenware of the Middle Ages, with tin-glazed lustre decorated wares, pottery for the first time in Europe acquired the power of woman or of jewels to arouse immoderate desire. I like that."