Julie Barham
A ceramic work should capture your attention and entice you to handle and think. The form and the surface should captivate and demand further enquiry.
This is Julie's view of the role ceramics should play! She loves pieces that demand we pick them up and look around them.
Julie is inspired by patterns, colours and textures found in plants, the coast, textiles, and architecture and this is reflected in her work. Julie's work may be sculptural or for domestic use.
Lucy Burley
Lucy studied Ceramics at Wimbledon and Camberwell Art Schools, graduating with a BA Hons in 1996. In 2000 she moved out of London and now works from a studio in the Hampshire countryside, from which she makes her range of ceramics.
Her work is both decorative and functional: simple shapes which make sculptural groups. Lucy is inspired by Giorgio Morandi’s still-life paintings and she wants her work to have the same harmony of form and colour.
Lucy's vessels are thrown on the wheel using white earthenware clay. She has developed a semi-matt earthenware glaze, smooth to the touch, to which she adds oxides and stains to obtain a wide spectrum of colours.
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Rachel Cox
Rachel is a studio ceramist and designer maker from Wales, making functional tableware and decorative panels. Colour, tactility and material quality are central to her work, using porcelain and stoneware clays.
Travel is an important influence of Rachel's palette and the forms that she makes. Over the years, Rachel has developed a vast colour library of ceramic materials, which she has gathered when 'colour mapping' by undertaking colour surveys in chromatic cities such as Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Athens.
The forms of her tableware are designed with a consideration for balance and harmony. Using glazed and unglazed ceramic surfaces, Rachel strives to produce long lasting items that intimately consider material quality, colour and functionality. Her wares are to be used and cherished, encouraging positive and unique experiences.
Rachel's surface decoration looks to the traditional pattern making techniques of stencilling, block printing and paper cutting, which she uses in conjunction with modern technologies such as laser and plotter cutting. Rachel is interested in how these sensibilities cross over into ceramic materials.
Ruth Fairhead
Ruth works from her garden studio in Cambridgeshire where her ceramics are imprinted with patterns of her own design, and are shaped into forms that are functional, sculptural or somewhere in between.
Ruth enjoys contrasts and uses a range of colourful glazes and underglazes to enhance patterns, textures and shapes. All of her work is handbuilt from slabs of clay. One surface on each piece is imprinted with pattern using a linocut, making her work individual and customisable.
Designing her own patterns and cutting her own lino is an important part of her ceramic practice. One of her favourite reference books for pattern is ‘The Grammar of Ornament’ by Victorian designer Owen Jones. A linocut that Ruth often uses was inspired by a visit to Ely Cathedral, another is a wren design which was inspired by wildlife photography.
Ruth uses glazes that enhance the ridges and troughs of the imprinted clay. Colour, texture and contrast are all very important to her and she often uses a matt underglaze against the high shine of glaze.
Inspiration for shapes comes from many places including architecture and product design. Ruth enjoys making interesting pieces that people want to pick up, hold and take home.
Alice Funge
Producing a fully functioning vessel from a ball of clay using only a wheel and her hands is something that fascinates Alice; manipulating the clay to create any form she can is a concept she loves.
Her inspiration comes from everyday marks created during our daily routines, particularly in cooking and baking. She replicates these marks in clay and coloured slip, producing a permanent feature from a temporary, mundane activity.
The words around the rim of the mixing bowls are hand written by her late grandmother and give a narrative to her work. The recipes are transferred to the bowls using ceramic decals or transfers, which are fixed by a firing in the kiln. Ever since she had the idea to produce a range of bake ware she wanted to add something special to it – her late grandmother’s own recipes seemed the perfect idea, adding a personal touch to an already unique, handmade collection.
Lorna GIlbert
Lorna is a potter living in West Yorkshire, designing and making beautiful handmade ceramics. She mainly works in white stoneware clay and many of her pieces are thrown on the wheel. Lorna comes from a fine art and textiles background and is fascinated with texture.
’I love my pots to be held, used and enjoyed. As a maker I am aware of our individual impact on the environment. In my creative process I try to minimize the energy I use and reuse material wherever and whenever I can. My greetings cards are printed using eco friendly ink on 100% recycled card and are packaged using biodegradable wraps. The swifts I create are made using recycled clay.’
Diane Griffin
After discovering a love for clay at an early age, Diane went on to study ceramics at degree level and has been working with ceramics ever since.
She use a combination of techniques to create her pieces. Throwing, hand-building and slip casting methods are all employed. Diane also enjoys combining other media with her ceramics to add contrasts in colour and texture.
When designing a new piece Diane begins with the form and often looks at sculptures for inspiration. Anish Kapoor, Jim Partridge, Andy Goldsworthy and Gordon Baldwin are just a few of that artists that she enjoys and who continue to inspire her own sculptural forms.
Diane is currently working on pieces that translate many of the techniques that she has developed over the years for her sculptures into pieces that can more readily be encorporated into the home. Her vases, lamps and bowls fulfill a practical purpose as well as providing a beautiful and sculptural centre-piece.
Zoe Hardinge
Zoe is the potter behind Pottering Around. She has a studio in Cambridge making mostly plates which are all decorated by hand.
Zoe is inspired by fabrics and recreates these patterns on her ceramics.
Helen Harrison
Helen studied Art and Design at Loughborough College of Art, specialising in ceramics and gaining a B.A. Honours. Her studies continued by attaining a place at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1995 with a Degree of Master of Arts.
Helen lives and works in Devon and is a selected member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen and widely exhibits throughout the UK.
“ The way an object feels to hold and use are important considerations while creating work. My aim is to capture the fluidity of the raw clay within the finished pieces ”
Each piece is made from porcelain and finished with clear and coloured food-safe glazes, creating pieces which can be used and enjoyed everyday. The forms are hand-thrown on a potters wheel and the surfaces treated with layered oxides, decals, slips and imprints.
Emma Johnson
Emma Johnson studied MDes 3D Design and Craft at the University of Brighton, specialising in mould made ceramics and achieving distinction.
Training and living in the heart of a vibrant, bustling city from 2012-16 has provided Emma with not only skill specialism's in ceramics and wood, but also with a fascination of cityscapes. This interest is reflected in her functional home wares, which often take inspiration from architectural details. Precise and angular forms are incorporated, along with a degree of buildability and a unified combination of materials.
Emma is currently creating and developing work from her shared studio in Phoenix Brighton.
Louise O'Connor
Louise has been making individually sculpted and hand painted ceramic animals for several years. She sculpts mostly with her hands with minimal help from a few tools. After the animals are formed from quality Earthstone clays and fired, they are hand painted with oxides, glazes and slips before being fired to stoneware, making them stronger.
Louise’s work can be described a light hearted parody of mostly the fun sides of human nature depicted through animal imagery in clay. Each piece is unique, and is the only one in the world, with a character all to itself that hopefully will bring much joy and pleasure to its new and forever home.
Sejal Patel
Specialising in ceramics with a particular focus on mould making and slip-casting, Sejal crafts decorative and functional pieces, perfectly suited for the home and office.
Graduating in 2014 from the applied arts course, Design Crafts, at De Montfort University, Leicester; after experiencing a vast range of materials and techniques, she was drawn to slip-casting. Setting up her home studio in 2015, Sejal has created a new collection of homeware pieces including her latest work, bud vases and hanging planters, modern stylish pieces which can equally stand alone or work together as a collection. As well as slip casting, Sejal creates one off larger items on the wheel, which keeps her, as an artist, experimenting and interested in her own work.
Pot It
Pot It has been creating Jesmonite homewares and pots in their East London workshop since 2019. Pot It’s journey started when they couldn’t find the perfect pots for their big houseplant collection, so they got back to their artistic roots and began to make their own pots.
They use Jesmonite as their main materials. Jesmonite is widely used in fine arts, crafts and construction. It is considered a low-hazard material with minimal environmental impact. Materials for Pot It products are sourced within the UK with a low carbon footprint. The production process requires no harmful solvents and emits no toxic fumes or waste products, making it kinder to the environment.
Since then, Pot It has been lovingly designing and carefully hand-crafting the products, using the eco-friendly, UK-manufactured material Jesmonite.
Jane Pritchard
Jane Pritchard is a ceramicist living and working in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
Originally a graphic designer, she changed career after taking a part time course at City Lit, London, culminating in a MA at UCA Farnham.
Her current work is based on the theme of renewal, both in our natural surroundings and in the built environment - how they connect with each other and referencing human interactions with both.
She uses porcelain and slipcast bone china for a modern purity contrasting with natural oxides and slips which combine organically to create contrast and texture.
Jo Rollason
Jo qualified with a B.A.(Hons) in ceramics in 1991 from West Surrey College of Art and Design. Most of her work is hand thrown and turned stoneware which is made on a potter’s wheel.
Jo produces a range of domestic ware, predominately table ware, which is then decorated using several different coloured stoneware glazes. These are fired in a gas kiln to 1260°C which she fires in both oxidation and reduction atmospheres. This gives different results from the same glazes which she makes herself based on recipes that she has refined. She is always working on recipes to create new unique glazes and enjoys the variety of colours that can be obtained.
Jo also teaches classes along with her partner in their studio and has recently worked on several community-based projects and commissions. Jo became a member of Anglian Potters several years ago.
Sarah Rooms Heaphy
Sarah’s love of the beach and coastline, calming effects of the sea, the contrast of the rough cliffs and stones against the flat sand, collecting stones, unconsciously stacking pebbles… this is all an accumulation of inspiration for Sarah.
Sarah’s work is primarily porcelain based, including the use of paper clay to enable her to use very thinly rolled pieces of clay.
She spends her time collecting shells, ammonites, leaves and all sorts of textures to use in her pieces. These are used to make plaster moulds, to create relief images. The work is hand-built, white porcelain vessels which are then washed with delicate colours to enhance the images & texture. These are fired to a maximum of 1260 degrees in an electric kiln, creating delicate, yet strong porcelain vessels.
Andy Urwin
Andy Urwin is an artist/ceramicist originally from the Yorkshire dales.
He studied art at Harrogate college and then a BA Hons degree in studio ceramics at Falmouth college of Art in Cornwall.
He first became inspired by houses after moving to London and became obsessed with drawing urban landscapes.
Andy has carried on this theme to the present day but now combines his two core values, art and nature. He makes ceramic houses inspired by the traditional Japanese Raku technique. A rustic if somewhat precarious technique using all of nature’s elements, earth, air, fire and water.
The wonderfully free and unpredictable nature of this process is what drives Andy to produce beautifully tactile, rustic Raku pieces.
Kate Welton
Kate’s ceramic work draws inspiration from the simple beauty and intriguing surfaces of old gardening tools gathered from her grandfather’s shed. The quiet forms of Kate’s thrown pieces allow her sensitive decoration to become the focus of the work, while a colour palette of soft greens, greys and blues creates a cohesive collection.
Drawing is integral to Kate’s practice and her loose, abstract mark making is developed into a catalogue of designs. The surface of the clay is treated like a canvas onto which she paints with coloured slip, using a variety of techniques to build up layers of decoration.
Kate graduated from De Montfort University in 2015, with a 1st in BA (Hons) Design Crafts. Soon after this she established her studio in Suffolk, and has since been developing her current ceramic collection.
Rhian Winslade
Rhian Winslade is a potter based in Windsor, Berkshire.
She came to ceramics via an unconventional route, after study, many years of music retail, interior design study & a family, she eventually found clay and hasn’t looked back.
The pots and bowls are all hand coiled, a slower process that she loves. These items are solid looking tactile shapes made from stoneware grogged clay. They have a very distinct contrast, the outside of the pots are left free of glaze & textured: the interior smooth & brightly glazed. Her work includes large sculptural pieces made from a gritty grogged clay which sit alongside quirky porcelain decorations & tiles, incorporating glass, paper, fabric & stones.
She loves 1950s textile design and the simplicity of children’s illustrations, drawing inspiration from her allotment which now takes a back seat after falling for clay, and the south coast of Wales where she grew up. She spends far too much time staring out of her workshop window bird watching!
She cannot throw anything away and some of the fabric work contains scraps from her children’s clothes; the glass at the bottom of the the glazed pots is from her mother’s car windscreen collected the day Rhian’s first child was born nearly 18 years ago.
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