2025
I have always had a love for everyday items which hold little monetary value but are full of sentimental or emotional value. I enjoy searching through the cupboard to find the right mug for the right moment, for the right tea or time of day. The feeling of this is...
Having spent my career in Arts and Education, I’m now back to sculpting clay and embracing a varied style to exploit its natural spontaneous qualities with a little creative chaos. I make individual pieces using the wheel, my hands, and whatever else I can find to...
Dawn Kryger is a Canadian born ceramic artist with over 20 years of experience making and selling. Now living in Wirksworth, Derbyshire, she draws inspiration from the rolling hills and peaceful countryside. This can be seen strongest in her mug and teapot series...
My name is Helen Butler and I am based in Belper, Derbyshire. I originally trained as a fashion designer eventually moving into education where I worked as an art technician along with teaching ceramics and printmaking. I am now both a potter and a printmaker. My...
Carol’s work is inspired by the colours, shapes and silhouettes of industrial architecture. These influences are realised through the choice of red stoneware and porcelain clay. The rich natural colours which make the work so distinctive are achieved through gas...
My highly decorative ceramics reflect the tactile joy of throwing clay on the pottery wheel. I experiment with form, surface texture and glazing to create individual and small-batch pieces that are best experienced in the viewer’s palms. The vessels are embellished...
Claywirks continues to thrive into its 11th year. We are a group of 13 enthusiastic and like-minded potters based around Wirksworth, Derbyshire who originally came together at the end of 2014 to do something about addressing our creative needs by pooling and...
The distinctive range of hand painted bright and colourful tableware reflect my love of bold colours and passion for painting. The beautiful designs are inspired by interactions with wildlife and nature, from sitting sketching in the garden to reflections based on...
My pieces are thrown in stoneware and porcelain at my studio in Middleton-by-Wirksworth, where the golden colours of the land, stone and sky tend to seep into my glazing, along with the occasional splash of colour. Simple, elegant forms, functional and decorative,...
Based in Northumberland, Qi Fang Colbert is an internationally awarded and exhibited artist, ceramicist, illustrator and researcher, as well as a creative and innovative ceramist creating original surrealist narrative works. As part of her PhD in Fine Art and Art...
I make botanical themed ceramics inspired by nature. These include vessels, wall mounts, large charges, succulent pebbles & impressed pendants. I use a grogged stoneware clay, coloured slips, underglazes and various oxides and textured glazes. All work is...
Artist Statement - Jane Clowes ceramics I am a ceramicist working from my studio in Stoke on Trent. I make handmade slab built domestic and decorative ware inspired by the Staffordshire Pottery slipware tradition and mid century design. I combine the precision...
Thrown pottery inspired by the landscape and industrial Heritage of the Midlands and the North of England. I adorn these forms with slips and glazes in a gestural fluid manner inspired by the forms and shapes of both Eastern and Western sensibilities.
AS A NOTTINGHAM BASED CERAMICIST I NATURALLY FEEL INSPIRED BY THE LACE HERITAGE OF THE CITY. DRAWN TO THE PURITY OF PORCELAIN I COMBINE THIS DELICATE MEDIUM WITH THE BEAUTIFUL PATTERNS OF LACE TO PRODUCE A FEMIINE COLLECTION OF WORK WITH A TEXTILE LIKE SURFACE....
I make decorative low fired ceramic bowls, dishes, plates and brooches from a variety of clays using press-moulding & hand building processes. After dipping and pouring on a range of unusual glazes including a vibrant matt turquoise and tactile crawling glazes,...
All my pots are made to be used. A teapot, a large platter, a sushi plate or a garden planter, a pot is not completely finished until I know it’s being filled with food or plants, being enjoyed at the table or in the garden. Earthenware pots are slipped and...
I draw my inspiration from my deep connection with nature and the ebb and flow of nature’s fruition. My workshop is adorned with natural forms, such as cones, seedpods, and coastal finds offered from the sea. These collections inform my ceramic work, and I then...
Abbie Sunter is multi-media artist specialising in hand built ceramic sculpture. Drawing heavily on themes of folklore, myths and legends, her work aims to reconnect the viewer to nature through storytelling and the fantastic creatures of worlds both seen and...
Simon Sneath - Artist Statement I work with stoneware, porcelain and coarse crank clays using throwing and slab building techniques. My starting points are generally drawings or 3D sketches. Maquettes follow to explore form, scale, texture, mechanical strength etc....
In my whimsical and often illustrated ceramics, I endeavour to transport viewers to a world where imagination reigns supreme. From the enchanting beauty of nature, the curiosity of childhood, and the vibrant hues of fantasy, I aim infuse each piece with a sense of...
I am a writer and creative artist. I work with words and clay. I handbuild stoneware vessels and figurative sculptures that respond to the natural world and my poetry.