Ian Godfrey was born in Ely in 1942. He went to school in London, going on to Camberwell Art School to study painting. There he began to make pottery, training in the department run by Dick Kendall with teachers who included Lucie Rie, Hans Coper & Ian Auld.
In 1962 he started his own pottery workshop in an Islington basement, and in 1967-8 he worked at the Royal College of Art on a pottery fellowship. Over the next few years his work was widely exhibited, and in 1974 he was awarded the gold medal at the Faenza international ceramics competition. Lucie Rie described Godfrey's pots as 'unique and beautiful'.
In 1975 he moved to Denmark, where he set up and ran a domestic pottery workshop in Jutland. He returned to London in 1980, starting a new workshop in Highgate, which continued to be his base until his death in 1992.
Godfrey's work is well represented in the Victoria and Albert Museum and other important national and international collections.
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