"Ceramist Barry Guppy has the self-contained air of a man who loves what he does. He gives the impression that being an artist was not so much an intellectual decision as a calling he couldn’t ignore."

By Gill Roth
Ceramics: Art & Perception

"Barry Guppy, born on Jersey in the Channel Islands in 1937, trained under highly respected potters Hans Coper and Dame Lucie Rie, and later taught with them at Camberwell. He had what many potters would have given their eye teeth for the privilege of a superb ceramic background."

"The first impression on viewing his work was along the lines of Guppy is not a real potter, he is more like a three-dimensional Jackson Pollock.’ These ceramic pieces are certainly very different - as a potter, who clearly aims to produce ‘quite useless pots’, claiming in tongue in cheek that ‘there are already enough functional pots in the world."

by Jeff Shaw

"This is the first show I have seen of his work and the impression is one of an experienced and well informed experimenter who enjoys the immediate influence of his natural surroundings and his exploration of organic forms using clay merely as a response to his environment. I recommended a close viewing of this work for any interested in the spectrum that is possible with this amazing material. “

By Stephanie Outridge-Field
Fusions Gallery

"Guppy’s shapes vary from bowls and plates, (often looking deceptively traditional, until one realises that few are actually closed, solid forms), to totally abstract agglomerations that often do not seem man-made."

"One will never tire of looking at one of Guppy’s creations.
They will each time reveal something new, something different, something unexpected. These objects have a quality that one can only define as being alive." 

"Guppy’s colours are of an enormous variety and range, of an intensity and depth rarely found in pottery made this century." 

Ernst J. Grube ( @ 1996 )

"The Pimlico Pottery, 4-6 Moreton St, where Barry Guppy has lived and worked for many years, inventing a technique of spinning casting slip which defies the craft’s earthy medium and result in pottery of a burnished brandy-snap laciness"
Helen Simpson

‘The Sweets of Pimlico’
Vogue 1987

 "The Illustrated Dictionary of Pottery Decoration"
by Robert Fournier , published by Prentice Hall, 1986

The Crafts Council Annual, 1970

"Clay"
Published by Marshall Cavendish, 1979

“The Art of Handbuilt Ceramics”
Published by Crowood,2000