Linda Bloomfield has been involved with pottery since 1973, although her career path led her to train as a materials scientist, and she received a BSc in Engineering Science and a PhD in Materials Science from Warwick University. After stints as a visiting scholar at MIT and as a researcher in Tsukuba, Japan and Imperial College, London, she set up her current studio in London in 2001. Since 2003, she has been selling through galleries across the UK and internationally. She has designed several ranges of manufactured tableware. She is the author of six books including Colour in Glazes, Special Effect Glazes and Science for Potters
