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Book now to avoid disappointment! I owe Phil Rogers more than he, perhaps, ever knew. A great pot carries with it great power and, as a maker of those exquisite Japanese cups, guinomi and yunomi, Rogers, who passed away in December, had few equals in the western world. Twenty years ago I lay in intensive care, tethered, triangulated, fearful and hopeless after a major heart attack.

At my bedside my wife, Fiona, opened her handbag and produced my favourite yunomi by Phil Rogers. She emptied the drink from the NHS plastic beaker into the yunomi , which she then placed in my hands. As I put that cup to my lips, I felt my sense of self returning. I remembered what it was to be alive. Phil Rogers was born in Newport in He attended Newport and Swansea Colleges of Art and had originally intended to become a painter.

Pottery was a compulsory element of the multi-disciplinary course, however, so Phil and a friend taught themselves to throw by challenging each other to see who could throw the biggest pot. Phil became a teacher in and was inspired by visits to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, where he first came across early Korean pots. Fresh challenges did not unnerve him, although I think that perhaps one of the few careers in which Phil would not have excelled would have been as a member of The Diplomatic Corps.