Fifty years of collecting
Ed Pascoe has been taking collectors to the artists for more than fifty years. He started in England in 1969, bringing buyers to Stoke-on-Trent for Royal Doulton, Wedgwood and Moorcroft. The destination changed. The principle did not.
Today the route is rural KwaZulu-Natal, where a small group of South African ceramic studios are producing the finest work being made in Africa. The Buying Trip is a guided art collecting trip to those studios. Small group, by invitation, once a year.
How the trip works
You spend the working days in the studios where every piece is made, choosing work while it is still on the wheel and meeting the artist who is painting yours. The piece arrives in your home a few months later, finished.
The trip moves beyond the studios into the artists' communities. Their homes, the kilns, the family lunches. The part of an art trip that usually stays out of view.
Your spend becomes a credit so the artists can begin work in advance. A portion supports the infrastructure we co-invest in: clean water, the bakery, the beauty shop, the next building.
The structure
The Buying Trip is structured as a pre-paid commitment. Your spend becomes a credit toward the work you choose during the trip, and the artists begin on it in advance. Wire transfer only.
Group of five
A small group, by invitation. Travel costs are separate. Contact us for more information.
Private, couple
Just the two of you, with Ed and the studios. Travel costs are separate. Contact us for more information.
Target trip: April 2027. Applications are open now; the group composition will be confirmed by late summer 2026.
I was in love with the safari and the wildlife of this continent. Now I am in love with the people.Susie, after the first trip
What you bring home
Every piece on Pascoe Gallery comes from the studios in these photographs. The kind of work you would choose, finished, painted, and shipped to your home in the months after the trip.
Apply for the next trip
The trip is by invitation, after a short application and a brief one-on-one phone call with Ed. We respond within 48 hours.
Your application is in. Ed will reach out personally within 48 hours.
If not now
Every piece on Pascoe Gallery comes from the same artists you would meet on this trip. Browse the collection, pick a piece, and we can talk about a trip another year.
About the gallery
If you would like to know more before applying, this short film captures the spirit of what we do.
