My love for pottery started way back in 1965, when I first visited Sardar Gurcharan Singh's Delhi Blue Art Pottery. The lovely brick house at Factory Road in New Delhi, with all types of pottery lying everywhere and students learning and practicing quietly in the shade of the Neem trees fascinated me greatly.

Though circumstances did not allow me to be a potter myself, my passion for pottery constantly urged me to be attached to it in one way or another. As a hobby, I started collecting studio pottery. Throughout the next thirty or so years I kept in touch with pottery through Sardar Gurcharan Singh and the Delhi Blue Art Pottery, visiting exhibitions organised by them. When the pottery closed down and Gurcharan Singh formed the Delhi Pottery Trust I continued to keep in touch with them. In 1996 I was made a trustee of the Delhi Blue Pottery Trust. Subsequently I co-ordinated a book called Pottery and the Legacy of Sardar Gurcharan Singh. This was published by the Trust in 1998.

The Website

During my research for the book I gathered quite a large amount of information on ancient pottery, pottery traditions, and contemporary styles. This web site has come about as a result of wanting to share this information with other pottery lovers all over the world. The web site is not a research document, nor does it claim to be the final authority on the subject. The information contained here is collected individually through exchanges with friends, archaeologists, traditional potters, commercial potters, studio potters and general pottery lovers. The site also offers space to advertise pottery-related events for a nominal charge.

Gallery Twentyfive 

In 1996 I started Gallery Twentyfive. This is a gallery with a difference as it is meant for exhibiting studio pottery. Through the site, Gallery Twentyfive will be organising events and pottery-related tours in and around Delhi. The gallery remains open for exhibitions from October to March every year. Presently undergoing renovation, it will reopen in October 2002.

How to Contact Us

Please fill in our feedback form if you want to co-ordinate an event with the gallery, or if you wish to send us your comments. For any additional information you can email us at galtwentyfive@yahoo.co.uk.

Acknowledgements

Friends and family have helped in a big way in putting up this site. I acknowledge with thanks the following :

P.C. Jain, for inspiring and guiding me in the making of this site.
A.V. Ravindranath, for all his support.
Mandira Ravindranath, for the editorial work.
Shailen Parker, for the photographs.
The Delhi Blue Pottery Trust, for the old photographs of the Delhi Blue Pottery and of Sardar Gurcharan Singh.
D.P.Mohley, for historical research.
Robert Godinho, for designing the site.


                                                                                                                             - Anuradha Ravindranath.

Site maintained by Robert Godinho for Copycats, B-4 Housing Society, South Extension (Part 1), New Delhi-110049.