KENNETH CLARK trained first as a painter, then as designer and potter. Together with his wife Ann Clark, he has run his own business for over forty years, specialising in the design and hand-decoration of tiles, panels and murals. Over the years he has been design consultant to several firms in the pottery and tile industry, as well as lecturer and author of three books on these subjects. Of these, the last, "The Pottery Manual", has been translated into many languages and is now considered required reading for English-speaking students.