Vicky working on a breadpot in her workshop surrounding by inspiration pictures and pieces collected over the years.

Working from my studio and shop in Llanidloes, I design and make rustic, contemporary ceramics.

Using grogged stoneware clays, including a gritty, toasty coloured wild clay from our own fields, I employ simple handbuilding techniques. Pressing soft clay over terrracotta moulds to make bowls and plates and hand coiling to build vases and urns, then scraping and refining with simple tools to pull the grog to the surface to create texture. Working in this way allows me work with the form more intuitively. Decorative elements are minimal, leaving areas of the surface unglazed enhancing the tactile nature of the form.

I am a member of the Shropshire Guild of Contemporary Craft and the Craft Potters Association. I am providing an ongoing programme of creative pottery workshops for Horatio’s Garden Midlands in Oswestry.

 
 

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