WIGHILL potter Isabel Denyer is exhibiting her stoneware and porcelain pots at Pyramid Gallery, Stonegate, York.

"My pottery is an integral part of my life and has been ever since I first trained at Farnham and Harrow in the 1960s," she says. "I have made pots wherever I have made my home: in Montego Bay, Jamaica, where I was born; in London; in Virginia, USA; in Capetown, South Africa; and now near York."

Working from her home studio and showroom in Wighill, she makes reduction-fired stoneware and porcelain pots, using traditional glazes. "The enjoyment I get from cooking leads me to make quiet vessels to enhance the colours and textures of the food," says Isabel.

"In addition, life drawing and print-making have led me to experiment with print-making techniques on to paper porcelain."

Her ceramics will be on view again in York later this year: she is a member of the York Art Workers Association, which is organising an exhibition for June display at the Guildhall.

In a second show at Pyramid Gallery, drypoints and colour screenprints by Anita Klein, president of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, are on view.

Born in Australia and raised in London, she studied at Chelsea School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art, and her work has been shown at the Royal Academy and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

In her prints, she presents a humorous visual diary celebrating small, commonplace domestic moments: having breakfast with her daughters; shaving her legs while husband 'Nige' does his exercises; or catching the guinea pig.

"These everyday events are what I would miss most if it were all taken away," she says. "While family photo albums record our lives as one long round of birthdays and holidays, the very moments we should most value are almost always ignored and forgotten."

Anita first exhibited at Pyramid Gallery in 1994 and has exhibited there regularly ever since.

Updated: 08:56 Friday, March 19, 2004