© Photograph by Andrew Montgomery, Country Living Magazine
The Family of Potters
Caitlin Jenkins RCA
Eighth generation Jenkins Potter
Caitlin was trained at Ewenny Pottery by her father Alun, completed a Ceramic degree course at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff in 1998 and graduated with a Masters degree from the Royal College of Art in 2003. She has travelled lecturing and working in potteries and has exhibited in the UK, Europe, USA and Japan. Caitlin has taken charge of the family pottery superseding her father.
To find out about Caitlin’s personal art work click the link below.
Alun Jenkins
Seventh generation Jenkins Potter
After graduating in 1969 from Cardiff College of Art having studied Ceramics, Alun Jenkins returned to Ewenny to work with his father Thomas Arthur Jenkins and Uncle, David Jenkins. Alun and his wife Jayne bought the business when his father and uncle retired in 1976. A new workshop was built on the site of one of the old kilns and Alun and Jayne continued to develop glazes and designs still maintaining the look of Ewenny. After a long career Alun and Jayne are now semi-retired and work part-time.
