Offer Waterman, 17 St George Street, London (2026)

20/10/2026

With Frieze week now behind us, we continue to celebrate the powerful role that London played as the centre of the international art world in the post-war period. Lucie Rie/Hans Coper: Life at the Wheel highlights the role that London played, hosting emigree artists who had fled Europe during the 1930s and ‘40s.

From her small home and studio at 18 Albion Mews, Lucie Rie together with Hans Coper reshaped perceptions of just what a pot could be – using traditional ideas of the vessel form and expanding them further through ingenious designs and stunning surface decoration techniques.

The twelve years that Rie and Coper spent working together at Albion Mews were some of the most important and exciting years in the lives of both artists. While Rie valued the support of other assistants at the studio, her deep personal friendship with Coper was unlike any relationship she had experienced before. It became a friendship based on mutual respect and admiration, each learning from the other – as Rie later stated ‘I am a potter but he was an artist … He taught me what was right and what was wrong.’

Read more about the story of Rie and Coper in the accompanying exhibition, beautifully designed by A Practice for Everyday Life with essays by Tanya Harrod, Nigel Slater, Nigel Wood, Robin Cawdron-Stewart and Edmund de Waal – available to purchase from the gallery or online!

📷 Hans Coper holding Lucie Rie’s legs as she unpacks the kiln at Albion Mews, c.1954. Photograph © Estate of Jane Coper & The Lucie Rie and Hans Coper Foundation
Lucie Rie and Hans Coper at Albion Mews, early 1950s. Photograph © Estate of Jane Coper & The Lucie Rie and Hans Coper Foundation
Rie & Coper, Large jug, c.1950s and Rie & Coper, Cup and Saucer, c.1948. Photographs by Sylvain Deleu

18/10/2026

Join us for the final day of Frieze Masters - where we are delighted to be presenting the very best of Modern and Contemporary British Art.

It’s been great to be back at the fair where we have welcomed a truly international audience!

For more information on the works we are showing please do get in touch!

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📷 Barbara Hepworth, Three Forms (Extra Eye), 1969
Tess Jaray, Six Red Steps, 1987

Tess Jaray

17/10/2026

Lucie Rie/Hans Coper: Life at the Wheel is open today from 11am – 5pm – and if you happen to be in London for Frieze week, be sure not to miss it!

Featuring over 200 works by these masters of the medium, we are delighted to be bringing back to the gallery this stunning Pink footed bowl, split during firing from c.1980 – formerly in the collection of Rie’s close friend and supporter Cyril Frankel, and first shown in public as part of the gallery’s groundbreaking exhibition ON FOOT: An Exhibition Curated by Jonathan Anderson at Offer Waterman back in 2023.

Formerly exhibited in one of the intimate spaces within the historic building of 17 St George Street, alongside designs made by Anderson for LOEWE as well as floral paintings by the likes of Cedric Morris, Christopher Wood and Eliot Hodgkin – we now present the work alongside a series of stunning 1980s coloured bowls made by Lucie at her studio at 18 Albion Mews.

For more information on this, or any of the works within the exhibition be sure to get in touch!

📷 Lucie Rie, Pink footed bowl, split during firing, c.1980. Photograph by Sylvain Deleu
Installation of ON FOOT: An Exhibition Curated by Jonathan Anderson at Offer Waterman in 2023

16/10/2026

Frieze Masters continues until Sunday!

For this year’s edition, Offer Waterman is delighted to present a selection of exceptional works by Frank Auerbach, Lynn Chadwick, Hans Coper, Ruth Duckworth, Gluck, Barbara Hepworth, Ivon Hitchens, David Hockney, Tess Jaray, Peter Lanyon, Jennifer Lee, Kim Lim, Rory McEwen, Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, Lucie Rie, Bridget Riley, William Scott, Stanley Spencer, James Tower, William Turnbull and Bryan Wynter.

We look forward to welcoming you to our stand over the final days of the fair!

Stand B09
Regent’s Park, London
NW1 4LL

16/10/2026

Open at the gallery this week, we are delighted to present Lucie Rie/Hans Coper: Life at the Wheel – a celebration of the work of two of the leading artists of the twentieth century.

Spanning seven decades, and featuring over 200 pieces, the exhibition gives an artistic overview of the work of these two makers that forever changed the notions of what a pot could be.

As Edmund de Waal writes in the catalogue for the exhibition – which runs until the 30 October – ‘Their pots reveal an instinct for powerful concision, for the paring back of forms, textures, functions to the essential. This is what it comes down to, the silences around their work, the precision and concentration of of their apartments and studios and living and making: two potters who were able to get to the point.’

Lucie Rie/Hans Coper: Life at the Wheel runs until 30 October, and for more information on the exhibition get in touch!

📷 Lucie Rie, 1960s. Photograph by Stella Snead. Image courtesy Crafts Study Centre
Lucie Rie, White footed bowl & Blue footed bowl, c.1980. Photograph by Sylvain Deleu
Hans Coper, Spade forms, c.1968-70. Photograph by Sylvain Deleu
Coper’s Hammersmith studio, c.1967, featuring ‘Spade’ form included in his and Rie’s 1967 exhibition at Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam. © Estate of Jane Coper & The Lucie Rie and Hans Coper Foundation

15/10/2026

Showcasing the very best of Modern and Contemporary British Art – we are delighted to be back at Frieze Masters for another year – presenting paintings, works on paper, sculpture and ceramics by some of the most celebrated artists of the past century.

We are thrilled to be reuniting the work of William Scott and James Tower once again with this incredible early ‘Still Life with Bowl and Olives’ from 1950 and ‘Fish Shoal’ from 1979. Scott and Tower were close friends and colleagues – teaching together at the progressive Bath Academy in Corsham.

In the 1950s Corsham played host to some of the most progressive artists and teachers, with Terry Frost, Kenneth Armitage and Peter Lanyon all included in the teaching staff alongside Scott and Tower.

In Scott’s intimate painting, the palette is almost entirely monochrome – with two types of cream, a warm and cool grey, blacks and white – the only flash of colour coming from the straight-from-the-tube Viridian green used for the olives. Tower too worked with a muted palette, typically favouring black and white tin glaze for his sculptural form that were inspired by the natural world.

For a chance to see these and other celebrated works, be sure to visit us at B9 at Frieze Masters, where we will be showing until Sunday!

Or for more information or a preview of the works we will be presenting please do get in touch!

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William Scott Archive

14/10/2026

Offer Waterman is delighted to support the launch of the newly founded The Lucie Rie and Hans Coper Foundation – a charity established to promote and champion the understanding of Lucie Rie and Hans Coper’s work and better preserve their artistic legacies for generations to come.

Through the creation of a publicly accessible digital catalogue and archive, and grants programme, the foundation aims to facilitate research, exhibitions, publications and promote a wider appreciation of the artists’ work.

Offer Waterman is thrilled to be donating a portion of the sale proceeds from each catalogue from their current exhibition Lucie Rie/Hans Coper: Life at the Wheel to The Lucie Rie and Hans Coper Foundation.

Lucie Rie/Hans Coper: Life at the Wheel is free and open to the public, running at 17 St George Street until 30th October.

For more information do get in touch!

📷 Lucie Rie, Albion Mews, c.1960 © Estate of Jane Coper & The Lucie Rie and Hans Coper Foundation
Works by Lucie Rie & Hans Coper featured in the exhibition. Photography by Sylvain Deleu
Hans Coper at the wheel, Albion Mews, c.1956 © Estate of Jane Coper & The Lucie Rie and Hans Coper Foundation

13/10/2026

We are delighted to be back at Frieze Masters this year – presenting a selection of the very best of Modern and Contemporary British Art, including Stanley Spencer’s 1935 masterwork ‘Washing Up’, formerly in the collection of Sir Kenneth Clark.

This intimate paining by one of the 20th Century’s most celebrated British artists elevates an everyday domestic art into a compelling tableau of unexpected monumentality. One of Spencer’s most ambitious domestic paintings, created at a decisive moment in his career, it brings to the kitchen interior the rigorous observation and stylised clarity that define his finest work.

The setting is the kitchen at Chapel View, the cottage in Burghclere built for Spencer and his first wife Hilda Carline by their patrons Louis and Mary Behrend, a short walk from the Sandham Memorial Chapel they had commissioned, which was completed in 1932. Whilst at Chapel View Spencer employed Elsie Munday as their maid, and she quickly assumed a central place within the household.

As Spencer wrote ‘[Washing Up] was the only painting I did at Burghclere that was directly inspired by & was the outcome of y life at Chapel View. It is a scene in the kitchen & Elsie was the mainspring of its inspiration. She used to sit the children when very small in the kitchen drawer so that they could watch her ironing, etc. I have memory drawings of her at her different occupations, chopping up wood, etc.’

To explore the full history of this breathtakingly beautiful painting be sure to visit Frieze Masters where the work will be on show until Sunday!

For more information and a full preview of the works we will be exhibiting do get in touch!

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12/10/2026

It’s official - Frieze week is finally here – and we are delighted to be presenting a selection of the best of Modern British Art at the fair this year – and our exhibition Lucie Rie/Hans Coper: Life at the Wheel remains open from Tuesday – Saturday this week. So if you are in town, be sure to stop by for a chance to see the first major showing of both artists side by side in London for almost thirty years!

Featuring over 200 works, the exhibition spans seven decades and offers an overview of the rich versatility offered by one of the earth’s most basic materials – clay.

Rie and Coper were both born outside of Britain, and as emigres both were forced to forge their own path, carving out a new space within the genre. While developing their own distinct aesthetic styles, their work remained inextricably linked by their biography and the twelve years they spent working together at 18 Albion Mews.

To accompany the exhibition we are delighted to have produced a new fully illustrated catalogue designed by A Practice for Everyday Life with photography of works by Sylvain Deleu essays by Tanya Harrod, Nigel Wood, Nigel Slater, Robin Cawdron-Stewart and Edmund de Waal

For more information, availability of works, or questions about visiting, be sure to get in touch!

📷 Hans Coper at Albion Mews, c.1956. Photograph © Estate of Jane Coper & The Lucie Rie and Hans Coper Foundation
Hans Coper, Early footed pots, c.1952-3. Photograph by Sylvain Deleu
Interior or Albion Mews, with pots made for his one-man show at Primavera, London, 1958. Photograph © Estate of Jane Coper & The Lucie Rie and Hans Coper Foundation
Lucie Rie, Large waisted vase, c.1960 and ‘Swan-neck’ vase, c.1958. Photograph by Sylvain Deleu
Lucie Rie on the wheel, c.1960. Photograph © Estate of Jane Coper & The Lucie Rie and Hans Coper Foundation

10/10/2026

From 1946 to 1958 Lucie Rie and Hans Coper worked side by side at 18 Albion Mews, throwing on the wheel each day. This was a period of intense artistic production for both artists – exploring new forms, materials and surfaces, and creating some of their most artistically ambitious work.

Together they shared ideas, and this can be seen in many of the most original forms created by both artists during this period – such as this rare and early Composite form by Coper from c.1950 – which was clearly a form that also excited Lucie, who went on to produce a series of not dissimilar bottle vases with flattened sides, often thrown in parts.

Lucie Rie/Hans Coper: Life at the Wheel showcases many of these interrelated forms created by both artists, giving an insight into the creative ideas that flowed freely between these two masters of the medium.

For more information and for availability of works please do get in touch!

📷 Hans Coper, Early composite form, c.1950. Photograph by Sylvain Deleu
Works by Lucie Rie at Albion Mews, 1950s. Photograph © Estate of Jane Coper & The Lucie Rie and Hans Coper Foundation Image Courtesy Crafts Study Centre

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