Rupert Merton learnt to work with clay during an apprenticeship at Tingewick Pottery before studying History of Art at Cambridge.
He then spent twelve years as a music publisher before going back to ceramics when he moved to Tuscany. Back in England he took a two year ceramic design course and set up his studio in South-West London.
Rupert has since worked both as a sculptor in bronze and as a TV documentary maker but always returns to his main passion – sculpting in clay and making pots.