Kiln Diary #05

The Winter Solstice is behind us now and in just a few days the light will slowly and steadily return as we celebrate the mid-winter festival. For us the Christmas holiday will be a time to regroup and to begin planning our work and projects for the next year. 

I want to start by offering a heartfelt thank you to the wonderful customers, galleries and friends who have supported us so loyally through the last year. It is exciting for me to make new international connections. Through my online collections I am able to send my work all around the world.

Looking forward, the highlight of 2021 will certainly be the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, in Paris, now rescheduled in the Spring. If you haven’t seen it, I have attached the link to my studio tour, a short video made for the Loewe En Casa series @loewefoundation to illuminate the making process of the selected finalists. I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks also to the people who I have worked with this year, photographers Rebecca Peters and Joe Howard, designer Fiona Routledge, and my creative partner, Sarah Frangleton.

So thanks a million and wishing you all a peaceful and warm Christmas.

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NOTES FROM THE STUDIO

My work is made using one clay, one mineral and a single firing. Over time the process has become simpler and more refined in the belief that stripping away the unnecessary can produce work with complexity and depth. I enjoy the fluid, sensual nature of porcelain combined with the freedom of throwing and hand-building. My firing technique is unique; a vital and dynamic process using soda as a catalyst to create a reaction with copper to produce a subtle palette of colour and texture closely integrated with the form.