This weeks spotlight – Richard Bideau
Richard studied natural sciences at Cambridge and later engineering at Leeds and after leaving university, he worked as a chemical engineer. Richards's interest in pottery started at an early age, it came from his mother, the well-known Lancashire potter Joan Bideau. Initially, this was little more than dabbling and a way of earning a little pocket money but this was to change in 1995 when an article on crystalline glazes in the New Scientist magazine caught Richards's attent