Oldřich Ašenbryl was born in Ceske Budejovice in Czechoslovakia in 1943. He trained as a potter In the Bechyne College of Ceramics.
Oldřich Ašenbryl moved to Great Britain in 1968 and worked for two years in the Aldermaston Pottery under Alan Caiger Smith. In 1970 he established his first studio in Tisbury Wilts where he made oxidised stoneware.
In 1973 he moved to Sarn in North Wales to set up his present studio for high fired stoneware ceramics. His work is made largely on the potter's wheel and hand extruder which his wife Jenny also uses for her slab built vessels.