The Oakwood Gallery was founded in 1999 by husband and wife team David & Ausma Binch. Although only opening a gallery in 1999 David & Ausma's interest in pottery and potters goes back over thirty years.
The gallery was situated in the picturesque North Nottinghamshire village of Edwinstowe. From the very beginning the gallery exhibited mainly work by a group of potters that were making pottery in or after the Oriental tradition of stoneware. The ethos of the gallery was firmly founded in the Leach Tradition. Some of the potters whose work was shown were Richard Batterham, John Leach, Phil Rogers, Mike Dodd, Jim Malone and Edward Hughes to name but a few.
David Binch is an authority on the works of Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada, and is a member of the advisory group of the Leach Pottery Restoration Project.

Past Exhibition Programme of The Oakwood Gallery

2000 Jim Malone (Solo Exhibition)
2001 Mike Dodd (Solo Exhibition)
2001 Nick Rees (Solo Exhibition)
2002 Edward Hughes (First Solo Exhibition in the UK)
2002 Totally Teabowls (Featured over 25 potters)
2003 Jack Kenny (Solo Exhibition)
2003 Phil Rogers (Solo Exhibition)
2003 John Leach (Solo Christmas Exhibition)
2004 Totally Teabowls (Featured over 50 potters)

Many pieces selected and sold by The Oakwood Gallery are to be found in public collections. We are particularly proud that the late Bill Ismay bought a piece by Jim Malone at his Solo Exhibition, sadly this was to be his final acquisition. The hakame decorated bottle vase can be seen in the Ismay Collection at the York City Art Gallery were it is on display with other pots from Bill Ismay's collection and is a fitting memorial to a great and loyal supporter of Contemporary Ceramics. More recently we have provided a Teapot by Jane Hamlyn to the Kamm Teapot Museum in Sparta, USA.

Since the summer of 2004 The Oakwood Gallery has
been solely an online gallery. However in 2006 we
again started an exhibition programme at The Thoresby
Gallery, full details of which can be found by using the Exhibitions link and the top of this page.