David Pye’s work contains elements of the designer and the craftsman. His bowls and boxes are easy to understand forms and they present none of the complexities that some kinds of contemporary art present to the understanding .He represents design rather than art in craft.
For, broadly speaking, the contemporary craft world divides between those people who are making objects that can be used, or look as if they can be used, and those who produce objects that are plainly useless and have ambitions to be taken seriously as art objects. This distinction is rather crude because even function can be compromised.