Mohamed Hamid has been a potter for 37 years. He established the Star Pottery in Lewes in 1989.

 

Mohamed specialises in brush decorated, hand-thrown stoneware and earthenware Majolica pottery in the tin glazed earthenware tradition.

He gained his BA Hons Ceramics at Farnham Art college. He then trained with Alan Caiger-Smith at Aldermaston Pottery and later with Jonathan Chiswell-Jones in Sussex.

In 1989 he was awarded a Crafts Council Grant and established his workshop in the Star Brewery building.

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Mohamed is a member of the well-respected Sussex Guild and exhibits both at the gallery in Southover Grange and at the Sussex Guild exhibition held at Michelham Priory.