AS Byatt , the novelist, visited Edmund de Waal in his ceramics studio and published her interview in the Guardian on 2nd May
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/may/02/edmund-de-waal-potter-ceramics-essays-as-byatt
Edmund de Waal’s pottery studio is in West Norwood. He is also a writer: Hare with Amber Eyes, a family memoir, is a prizewinning best seller translated into over 23 languages and sold over 1m copies.