KATE WELTON - CERAMICIST

I am a potter based on the Norfolk/Suffolk border, a beautiful area with gently rolling farmland, and the most magnificent skies. My collection of mugs, jugs, bowls and vases is wheel-thrown, and decorated with coloured slips (liquid clay) in a variety of abstract designs inspired by the landscape around me.

Every piece is made on the potter’s wheel using stoneware clay. Throwing is a rather magical technique, and the transformation from lump of clay to vessel never ceases to delight me! Once the thrown pots reach the ‘leather hard’ stage I apply my decoration using coloured slips; I mix all my colours in the studio to achieve a range of subtle hues, which are then layered on to the clay’s surface. I am constantly experimenting and developing my slip decoration techniques, and use stencilling, printing and resist to create the lines, circles and brush-marks in my designs. The East Anglian fields, sun and sky are echoed in the earthy greys, greens and yellows that adorn my collection.