Tom Rooth

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Handmade, hand drawn, and limited edition ceramics.

29/10/2026

A fantastic and inspiring trip to the Sedgwick Museum and Natural History Museum, to research fossils for my ceramics that I’ll be working on over the winter. For some time I’ve been collecting frames for this, as well as making tiles and panels, and I can’t wait to get started.
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Living in the Cambrians, where the Cambrian life explosion happened 538,000,000 years ago, I’ll be doing fossils from this period, right through to the Carboniferous, Jurassic and Cretaceous. I’ll be exhibiting the artworks at The Decorative Fair Decorative Fair and Petworth Art Fair The Antiques Dealers Fair Ltd in May, followed by a summer exhibition at my studio in Ystumtuen.
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It’s going to be a busy winter!

19/10/2026

Returning home from a day in the studio, with the final rays of the sun lighting up the autumnal mountains; the purple heather and yellow gorse flowers have all but gone, and the landscape is putting on its deep olive winter coat. It’s so peaceful, which makes it hard to believe a storm will be hitting at the end of the week. The weather changes here like the flip of a coin, which always keeps things interesting!

16/10/2026

Shaggy scalycap mushrooms - they appear every autumn under the old ash tree outside Pen, and are always a sight. They’re inedible, but have unique chemical compounds that are being used to reduce the symptoms of gouty arthritis. The wonders of nature 💫

29/09/2026

The Decorative Fair has just opened, and I’ve just finished setting up. We’re open until Sunday at 6pm, with free parking outside, and dogs welcome. Come and say hi if you visit - I’m on stand E27 in the far right corner, by the coffee bar (excellent coffee by the way).

20/09/2026

An emperor dragonfly in an Arts & Crafts frame, circa 1900, early evening.
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There were so many dragonflies this summer, and they’d often fly into my studio, which is what inspired this work. The frame is ideal, as the dragonfly was a motif of the period, and the patterning also echoes the subtle intricacies of the wings.
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Dragonfly lineage goes back 300,000,000 years to the Carboniferous period, predating dinosaurs by about 100m years. They’re not as ancient as sharks though, which predate dragonflies by about 450m years. Incredible!
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I’ll be exhibiting this Decorative Fair from 29 September to 4 October. DM me if you’d like tickets 🎫🎫

18/09/2026

Little lucky stars fresh from the kiln, fired with gold and platinum, metals created in supernovas and when stars collide. I’m looking forward to displaying them at The Decorative Fair (29 September to 4 October), and they’ll be available online from Monday.

03/09/2026

A swallowtail butterfly, drawn with underglaze pencils and fired on handmade ceramic, in a gem of a frame - English, 18th century, hand-carved and water-gilded. An artwork in itself 👌. I’ll be exhibiting this Decorative Fair from 29 September to 4 October.

06/08/2026

I’ve just finished firing some Lucky Stars, and they’ve come out beautifully - the most beautiful yet.
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I fire gold and platinum lustre into the stars, as these metals are created when stars collide, and in supernovas, when they explode and the metals are cast into the universe. There’s something cyclical in them becoming stars again, and a continuity that I like. They’ll be available online shortly, and I hope that wherever they end up, they bring happiness and luck to their new owners. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

24/07/2026

A photo, sketches and clippings from the family album, of my artist-inventor great grandfather Major Cliff Fleming-Williams sketching from a plane, to assess how useful it would be for gathering military intelligence. He had to tie the pre-sharpened pencils to pieces of string to prevent them from flying out of his hand and shattering the propellor blades, and invented a device (illustrated) that made drawing from the skies easier. It’s mind-blowing how quickly things have advanced, in such a short period of time - perhaps too quickly!

24/07/2026

A photo, sketches and clippings from the family album, of my artist-inventor great grandfather Major Cliff Fleming-Williams sketching from a plane, to assess how useful it would be for gathering military intelligence. He had to tie the pre-sharpened pencils to pieces of string to prevent them from flying out of his hand and shattering the propellor blades, and created a device (illustrated) that made drawing from the skies easier. It’s mind-blowing how much things have advanced, in such a short period of time - maybe a bit too quickly!

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