Edmund received a First Class degree in English Literature at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In 1992 he took a Post-Graduate Diploma in Japanese language at Sheffield University.

Before going up to Cambridge he was apprenticed to Geoffrey Whiting and after graduating worked in the Cwm Pottery, Herefordshire and a studio in Sheffield. In 1992 he went to Japan to work at the Mejiro Ceramics Studio, Tokyo. On his return in 1993 he set up his workshop in South East London, where he continues to make pottery. He has exhibited extensively and his work is in many major Museums & Collections. Edmund also writes, lectures & has many commitments in the field of British Crafts.