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Julie Barham
A ceramic work should capture your attention and entice you to handle and think. The form and the surface should captivate and demand further enquiry.
This is Julie's view of the role ceramics should play! She loves pieces that demand we pick them up and look around them.
Julie is inspired by patterns, colours and textures found in plants, the coast, textiles, and architecture and this is reflected in her work. Julie's work may be sculptural or for domestic use.
Frankie’s Studio.
Lucy Burley
Lucy studied Ceramics at Wimbledon and Camberwell Art Schools, graduating with a BA Hons in 1996. In 2000 she moved out of London and now works from a studio in the Hampshire countryside, from which she makes her range of ceramics.
Her work is both decorative and functional: simple shapes which make sculptural groups. Lucy is inspired by Giorgio Morandi’s still-life paintings and she wants her work to have the same harmony of form and colour.
Lucy's vessels are thrown on the wheel using white earthenware clay. She has developed a semi-matt earthenware glaze, smooth to the touch, to which she adds oxides and stains to obtain a wide spectrum of colours.
Sarah Cannell
Alice Funge
Producing a fully functioning vessel from a ball of clay using only a wheel and her hands is something that fascinates Alice; manipulating the clay to create any form she can is a concept she loves.
Her inspiration comes from everyday marks created during our daily routines, particularly in cooking and baking. She replicates these marks in clay and coloured slip, producing a permanent feature from a temporary, mundane activity.
The words around the rim of the mixing bowls are hand written by her late grandmother and give a narrative to her work. The recipes are transferred to the bowls using ceramic decals or transfers, which are fixed by a firing in the kiln. Ever since she had the idea to produce a range of bake ware she wanted to add something special to it – her late grandmother’s own recipes seemed the perfect idea, adding a personal touch to an already unique, handmade collection.
Lorna GIlbert
Lorna is a potter living in West Yorkshire, designing and making beautiful handmade ceramics. She mainly works in white stoneware clay and many of her pieces are thrown on the wheel. Lorna comes from a fine art and textiles background and is fascinated with texture.
’I love my pots to be held, used and enjoyed. As a maker I am aware of our individual impact on the environment. In my creative process I try to minimize the energy I use and reuse material wherever and whenever I can. My greetings cards are printed using eco friendly ink on 100% recycled card and are packaged using biodegradable wraps. The swifts I create are made using recycled clay.’
Diane Griffin
After discovering a love for clay at an early age, Diane went on to study ceramics at degree level and has been working with ceramics ever since.
She use a combination of techniques to create her pieces. Throwing, hand-building and slip casting methods are all employed. Diane also enjoys combining other media with her ceramics to add contrasts in colour and texture.
When designing a new piece Diane begins with the form and often looks at sculptures for inspiration. Anish Kapoor, Jim Partridge, Andy Goldsworthy and Gordon Baldwin are just a few of that artists that she enjoys and who continue to inspire her own sculptural forms.
Diane is currently working on pieces that translate many of the techniques that she has developed over the years for her sculptures into pieces that can more readily be encorporated into the home. Her vases, lamps and bowls fulfill a practical purpose as well as providing a beautiful and sculptural centre-piece.
Helen Harrison
Helen studied Art and Design at Loughborough College of Art, specialising in ceramics and gaining a B.A. Honours. Her studies continued by attaining a place at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1995 with a Degree of Master of Arts.
Helen lives and works in Devon and is a selected member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen and widely exhibits throughout the UK.
“ The way an object feels to hold and use are important considerations while creating work. My aim is to capture the fluidity of the raw clay within the finished pieces ”
Each piece is made from porcelain and finished with clear and coloured food-safe glazes, creating pieces which can be used and enjoyed everyday. The forms are hand-thrown on a potters wheel and the surfaces treated with layered oxides, decals, slips and imprints.
Emma Johnson
Emma Johnson studied MDes 3D Design and Craft at the University of Brighton, specialising in mould made ceramics and achieving distinction.
Training and living in the heart of a vibrant, bustling city from 2012-16 has provided Emma with not only skill specialism's in ceramics and wood, but also with a fascination of cityscapes. This interest is reflected in her functional home wares, which often take inspiration from architectural details. Precise and angular forms are incorporated, along with a degree of buildability and a unified combination of materials.
Emma is currently creating and developing work from her shared studio in Phoenix Brighton.
Kate Welton
Kate’s ceramic work draws inspiration from the simple beauty and intriguing surfaces of old gardening tools gathered from her grandfather’s shed. The quiet forms of Kate’s thrown pieces allow her sensitive decoration to become the focus of the work, while a colour palette of soft greens, greys and blues creates a cohesive collection.
Drawing is integral to Kate’s practice and her loose, abstract mark making is developed into a catalogue of designs. The surface of the clay is treated like a canvas onto which she paints with coloured slip, using a variety of techniques to build up layers of decoration.
Kate graduated from De Montfort University in 2015, with a 1st in BA (Hons) Design Crafts. Soon after this she established her studio in Suffolk, and has since been developing her current ceramic collection.