Stoneware, made by hand

Made by hand, in small batches.

Mugs, bowls and vases thrown in a garden studio, glazed from raw materials and fired twice. Meant to be used every day, not kept for best.

How a mug is made

Five stages and about three weeks.

Every piece is stamped on the foot. No two are quite the same, which is the point: the small differences are where the hands were.

Clay-covered hands raising a vase on the wheel

Thrown

Centred and raised on the wheel, a batch of twelve at a time.

A slip-covered wheel with a small pot and trimming tools

Trimmed

Left to firm up overnight, then turned and trimmed, and the handle pulled.

Unglazed mugs and lidded pots on a bench in window light

Bisque

A first firing to 1000°C, so the glaze has something to hold.

A wheel head from above with clay tools

Glazed

Glazes mixed in the studio from raw materials, dipped by hand.

Studio shelves of glazed and bisque pots

Fired

A second firing to 1260°C. The kiln decides the last ten percent.

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Commissions

A dinner set, a wedding list, a vase for one shelf.

A few commissions each season. Tell me roughly what you are after and I will say honestly whether I can make it, when, and what it will cost. Dinner sets take three months.

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