Toff Milway

Toff Milway makes salt-glazed pots with distinctive decorative detail including slip trailing, sgraffito and roulette decoration. As a young man he first worked with clay while working for a German sculptress and in various pottery workshops. He then managed a production workshop for a Camphill Village Trust.

Toff was a student on the acclaimed Harrow Studio Pottery Course where he was taught by the great ceramic names including Mick Casson, Victor Margrie, Wally Keeler and Gwyn Hanssen. He worked with the latter briefly in France and while still at Art School was inspired to build his first salt-glaze kiln in 1971.

He subsequently spent many years working in Africa, France and the USA. In his own words Toff wrote "I have been a maker since childhood and have always tried to invent useful things. I now makes pots and would like them to be useful". As a country potter, he likes to create pots that have an old fashioned country feel to them, yet still retain their elegant lines and which inspire people to make and enjoy good food. Toff is a Fellow of the Craftsman Potters Association.

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