Mohamed Hamid has been a potter for 35 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.

Mohamed is a member of the CPA, SDC and the Sussex Guild.