Sidney Tustin

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Sidney Tustin (8 September 1913 – 9 November 2005) was a potter born in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire.[1] Tustin began working aged 13, with Michael Cardew at Winchcombe Pottery in 1927. After a four-year apprenticeship he became a skilled thrower, specialising in smaller items of earthenware tableware and remaining there until his retirement in 1978.[1] His brother Charlie Tustin joined the pottery as an apprentice in 1935.[2] Tustin enlisted with the Dorset Regiment on the outbreak of the Second World War.[1]

In 1939 Cardew left for Wenford Bridge, Cornwall, and Tustin, on his return from war service worked alongside Ray Finch, who purchased the pottery in 1946.[3] It has been estimated that Tustin personally threw a million pots during his career at Winchcombe.[4]

Muriel Rose a collector of modern craft and design, wrote of Tustin as Cardew's first pottery boy, ”His jugs in particular have a lightness and balance of form which distinguishes them”. from her book Artist Potters in England (1955).[3]

Under Finch, Tustin changed from making earthenware to stoneware in the 1960s.[5] Tustin's work is held in the ceramic collection of Aberystwyth University,[6] a slip decorated bowl from 1953 is held in the collection of National Museum of Scotland[7] and there is an earthenware jug with black slip-trailed decoration in the permanent collection of Aberdeen Art Gallery.[8] A dish with a stylised resist motif of a dog is held in the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Stoke on Trent.[9]

Tustin married Marie Smith in 1935 they had one son and two daughters, he died at Winchcombe on 9 November 2005.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Sidney Tustin". The Independent. December 3, 2005. Retrieved 2025-11-18.
  2. ^ "The Bottle Kiln At Winchcombe Pottery: History, Celebration and Restoration. — HAMISH JACKSON POTTERYHAMISH JACKSON POTTERY". HAMISH JACKSON POTTERY. Retrieved 2025-11-18.
  3. ^ a b "Interpreting Ceramics : issue 7". interpretingceramics.com. Retrieved 2025-11-18.
  4. ^ Treasure, Random (September 9, 2018). "A Tale of Two Jugs". Random Treasure. Retrieved 2025-11-18.
  5. ^ Wheeler, Ron (2005). Sid Tustin Winchcombe Potter: A Celebration. Cotswolds Living Publications. ISBN 0955031508.
  6. ^ "Sidney TUSTIN". Ceramics Aberystwyth. Retrieved 2025-11-18.
  7. ^ "Search our collections". National Museums Scotland. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
  8. ^ "Earthenware Jug with Black Slip-Trailed Decoration". emuseum.aberdeencity.gov.uk. Retrieved 2025-11-18.
  9. ^ "Stoke Museums". www.stokemuseums.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2023-05-10. Retrieved 2025-11-19.