Welsh potter and doctoral researcher at Cardiff School of Art and Design.

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Thanks you so much for a wonderful first day of this year’s Christmas sale at the @flower_lodge 🙏🏻 it’s been so lovely to see so many new and familiar faces and to send pots off to new homes. The pay what you want section of the sale ha
Firing 44 was unpacked first thing this morning and shipped straight to the @flower_lodge for the opening of our Christmas exhibition and sale, tomorrow and Saturday from 10am. Featuring a charity bake sale, complimentary mulled wine and a veritable
This Friday and Saturday I’ll be hosting my annual Christmas exhibition and sale at the @flower_lodge 🎄 there will 100s of brand new pots, from flat white cups to tea mugs, statement pieces and everything in between. There will also be a pay w
I’ll be at the Paget Rooms, Penarth, this Saturday (23rd) from 11-4 with the wonderful @makersarcadepopup Ironically Storm Bert will be making this weekend a very wet one (many apologies) but luckily all the independent maker stalls will be w
Gottard’s Bowl #4. Recently sent to the wonderful folks at @cca_gallery for their winter exhibition along with some other one off pots and some of my standard ware. I’m only working with a few galleries at the moment as my work and studen
When there is more time and the air is less cold and damp, I will make as many decorated plates as I can humanly muster. In the meantime, here’s one I made a few months ago.
Excited to get back to glaze firing after what feels like a long hiatus 🔥 new beakers inbound and coming with me to @makersarcadepopup at the Paget rooms, Penarth this coming Saturday, November 23rd ✌🏻
Happy Friday, everyone ✌🏻 I hope the weather has been as breathtaking all over the Uk as it has been in Wales the past few days. Crisp autumnal perfection 🍂 Pictured are some little sippers. Gloriously groggy. It’s going to be a close one g
At the end of the month we’ll be holding our annual Christmas Exhibition and sale at the wonderful @flower_lodge (thanks for having me, wife!). Featuring a BIG seconds sale full of lovely pieces at bargain prices, a bake sale by sister Zoe with
I have made a few little coffee cups in this very coarse clay and it’s fair to say that dainty little pulled handles were… challenging. Fingers crossed they’ll come together in the firing before my run of markets for the festive se
More little cups like this appearing on the studio shelves in the run up to some pre market firings 🔥
A particularly tricky glaze to fire just right. Too hot and it’s essentially transparent, too cool and it’s overtly matte and chubby. Here’s a happy medium 🔥
Avoiding the C word, but market season is in bound. - 23/11 Paget rooms with @makersarcadepopup - 29 & 30/11 Flower Lodge with… @flower_lodge - 1/12 Goodsheds with @indie.collectives - 15/12 Wales Millennium with @indie.collectives
Next on my standard ware making list for Christmas, these Fro Mugs. A really good all rounder, big enough for tea, small enough for coffee (depending on your caffeination preferences). While I have lots of energy and passion for more conceptual and a
Detail 🔎 celadon over brushed white slip on buff stoneware. Reduction fired to 1290 🔥
This glaze drip jug has just made its was to @cca_gallery for the winter 🙏🏻 it was a happy accident that came from some glaze layering, which is something that I almost never do… definitely some more experimenting on the horizon.
Many thanks for all the bowl love yesterday 🙏🏻 here’s another bowl, but this time a faceted iron rich bowl with a nuka(ish) glaze, photographed bottom up ⬆️
Bowls. Easy but not. I find this bellied form a particularly slippery one to get right. And combined with the tenmoku it almost feels uncomfortably traditional for me. But I was really pleased how it all came together after the simple wax resist deco
Some Tuesday texture 🔍 a welcome surprise from a recent glaze firing. Thick white slip over a very coarse and iron rich stoneware body with a celadon type glaze. Im never sure why this orange flashing is occurring but im so drawn to it, alongside th
SHIPPING UPDATE 🔔 All the UK orders are landing in the next few days, and international orders will leave on Monday. My apologies for being so slow!! This scale of online shop was new to me, as was the international shipping, so there have been a