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David Wright — known as the Headless Cross Potter — grew up in Cleethorpes on the Lincolnshire coast. He gained a First Class Honours degree in Three‑Dimensional Design (Ceramics) from Wolverhampton Polytechnic, followed by postgraduate study at the Royal College of Art in London, which included a placement at Wedgwood.
For more than twenty years, David headed a design and technology faculty in a large secondary school. After taking early retirement in 2021, he returned to his first love: creating ceramics from the studio in his garden. Although he works predominantly in earthenware, he also enjoys using stoneware and raku clays. Employing hand‑building techniques such as press‑moulding, extrusion and slabbing, David creates exquisite small‑scale lidded vessels and jars. Each piece is uniquely decorated with intricate surface patterns and glazed in jewel‑like colours, often finished with touches of bronze and gold. There is truly nothing else quite like them.
David exhibits widely across the UK, and his work is held in collections in France, Ireland, Japan, the USA and New Zealand.