Aldeburgh High Street and the locality is packed full of small, independent galleries and art stores. Amongst the galleries, Aldeburgh Contemporary Arts stands out as a diverse, rich arena of emerging and established local artists. Ranging from etchings and collagraphs, to raku ceramics, the pieces in the gallery are all of a very high standard, and seem quite at home within the littoral surroundings.

Featured artists include Paul Evans, a leading East Anglian landscape painter, the illustrator Derek Chambers and exponent of fine etching, Laurie Rudling.

Read more about Aldeburgh Contemporary Arts here, and pay them a visit.

Andrew Niblett is a British exponent of Raku-ware. His pieces are diverse and prismatic, often highly tactile and inventive in appearance.

Niblett states that he takes inspiration from munitions of warfare and coastal defences on the Normandy beaches.

The following is an extract on technique from his website:

All the pieces are thrown in one piece and then turned to refine the form; while the clay is still soft metal bars are added. The pieces are biscuit fired in an electric kiln, and selected areas are masked off before being coated with a copper matt glaze. These are then put through their final most exiting stage, which is Raku. This involves the pieces being heated to 1000°C at which point they are removed from the kiln glowing orange. These are placed immediately onto a bed of sawdust, which bursts into flames on contact giving unpredictable and hopefully amazing results.

Read more about Andrew Niblett here.