Benjamin Hall – otherwise known as Mr Ben – is a ceramicist, painter, singer and songwriter. Self-taught & hugely energetic, everything he touches has quietly gorgeous quality. With a staggeringly prolific output Hall has recorded and released 10 albums, toured the UK with his band twice a year all alongside running a thriving pottery studio in the heart of Sheffield’s old engraving district.
Hall’s pieces range from humble tableware to beguiling illustrative vases, jars and oil paintings. Traditional ‘Sgrafitto’ and slip trailing are at the heart of the ceramic decoration, with handmade tools carving intricate and expressive forms into smooth white and tactile terracotta clay. Hall’s onus is on marrying his idiosyncratic approach to medium with creating objects of use, while honouring techniques of makers of the past.
Undeniably Northern imagery is etched across all of his work, with the life of the fells and valleys of his native Westmorland furrowed into clay, painting and song.
Selected clients - Selfridges, TOAST, Rowen & Wren