Ceramics

High fired handmade porcelain coasters, buttons and framed tile collections featuring botanical and marine images.

My work is about using botanical themed plants & seed heads to impress into the clay surface. I also use acetate stencils to make layered plant designs with different slip layers. Everything is grown from seed in my garden, collected as foliage and seed heads...

Mary Johnson makes interpretations of slip decorated earthenware ceramics. Applying traditional techniques in contemporary ways to create lively, striking vessels with meaning, texture and function. Plants and insects are drawn onto the work directly from life...

Zo Marsh Artist Statement 2023 My work is mainly ceramic, yet textile in origin. I decorate the surface of my handmade tiles using both traditional and digital techniques sometimes adding wire for contrast. Living near Wirksworth, the stunning views inspire me on a...

Hannah Buchanan's focus is creating everyday objects in stoneware which elevate day to day actions by the way they look and feel. With over 13 years experience in ceramics, including the role of Glaze Developer at Denby Pottery, I now solely make every day ceramics...

I create decorative and functional ceramics, handbuilding my work often using raku clay. I enjoy incorporating natural materials, particularly driftwood, into my designs. My work is inspired by both rural and seaside landscapes and often echoes the natural world...

We make Buird pottery in Wirksworth, using Staffordshire clay to hand throw pots in our light-filled workshop overlooking the green hills in the distance. We have taught and supported others to discover the wonder of throwing and pottery for many years. Buird is...

I make decorative low fired ceramic bowls, plates, dishes and brooches in my Nottingham studio from a variety of clays using press moulding and hand building techniques. Drawing inspiration for my work from observations of the natural world, I dip, pour and brush...

Jane Clowes Ceramics - Artist Statement. I am a ceramic artist based in Stoke on Trent working from the studio I built in my back garden. I produce slab built functional earthenware pieces. My bird drawings are applied onto the ware as enamel transfers. I am...

Work is wheel thrown and hand built, altered, and assembled using stoneware, porcelain and earthenware clays. Forms seek to utilise and respond to the malleability of these materials and embrace their responsiveness to extended and shorter wood firings. Functional...

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 work is strongly influenced by a visit to Japan in 1997. In particular Nara, the Ryoanji gardens and Mashiko, with its kilns and potteries, provided the inspiration for my interpretations of Japanese traditional forms. My starting point from an initial idea is...

Inspired by the natural world and the ebb and flow of nature’s fruition I draw inspiration from its somewhat secret and hidden beauty. Sea life, rock pools, the emerging seeds of plants, fruits and trees all inform my sculptural pieces. My work is mainly hand built...

My work explores rhythm and movement, whether through a single line describing the 3 dimensional form it covers (echoing the tracery of stone walls on a hillscape), spontaneous mark making using metal oxides, or by allowing the action of flame on clay to produce...

Often in ceramics; cracks, pin-holed glazing, mixing of clay and patchy slips are seen as defects, but I have created a body of work that enhances and celebrates these, each is still beautiful and valid in its own right. They have been made imperfectly-perfect with...