Ceramics Collection

Unique monochrome designs, featuring hand carved patterns contrasting with tactile surfaces and textures. The collection is inspired by contrasts and opposites, black versus white, rough versus smooth. The opposing materials work together to create a piece designed to be touched, not just looked at.

Materials
Groggy black stoneware with porcelain and satin white glazing.

Process
Wheel thrown and altered. Surface decoration using sgraffito technique and burnishing.

Inspiration
Hinted by the echoes of British studio pottery masters: Lucie Rie and Hans Coper.

Raw, Elemental, Refined Natural Forms. The Alchemy collection captures the essence of the transient folds and textures created by the earth. The signature gold detail mirrors the seams of precious minerals that lie beneath. This selection of ceramic vessels is designed to perfectly compliment the natural organic beauty of plants.

Materials

The vessels are made exclusively from black porcelain with 23ct gold leaf detail and volcanic sand.

Process

Black porcelain clay is compressed together and transformed to permanence through extreme heat. Texture is added by laying the clay slab over volcanic sand particles and compressing with the rib once more. The process is repeated with the next layer, which gently overlaps the first. On the exterior the irregular joins form the ‘textured vein’ of the design. The veins are then followed to inspire the exact shape and location of the gold leaf signature, applied individually to every vessel.

Inspiration

This collection was inspired by the Puna region of Argentina. A remote plateau 35,000 m high in the Andes, it is home to extraordinary volcanic rock formations, salt flats, and pools which are home to embryonic prehistoric life forms.

The Umai collection, ‘splendid’ in Japanese, contains two different shapes, Midori and Yuki, which mean green and snow respectively in Japanese. Work by this artist can also be found at Nobu (London, Barcelona, Warsaw) and The Ned (London).

Materials
Stoneware. Matt white glaze and jade green glaze.

Process
Handmade stoneware with clay-thrown base, finished off by padding with wooden tools. The production style replicates an ancient Korean technique used to make large pots, in particular Onggi. Onggi are large food containers, typically used to ferment sauces such as kimchi and soy. Applying these techniques, two shapes were developed that seek to capture movement and dynamism found in nature. The glazes used a color palette also inspired by nature: Jade green and snow white, which capture both the range and the splendor of the natural world.

Inspiration
Midori, the large, jade green pot, reverberates with a combination of matte and glossy surfaces. The colours evoke a flowing river, with the green palette mirroring rushing waters with shiny hues. The tulip shape recalls the elegance of vertical uneven form.

Yuki, is fuller and rounder in form, eliciting memories of a snowball, including school days and snowball fights. The purity of the matte white glaze, recalling peace and calm, overlays detailed, Japanese-inspired patterns, full of energy and movement. This combination invites the viewer to contemplate the form and enjoy the company of this splendid solid piece.

The collection presents regular, mesmerising organic patterns, almost periodic lattices that evoke quasicrystals, and criss-crossing lines which shape up as the chaotic trajectories that guide swirls of air. Elucidating the structure of intricate biomolecules that have evolved over millions of years as tools in the machinery of life. Yet, the patterns also feature a strong influence from Mexico and the inspiration in the intricate geometry of Chihuahua's Paquimé pottery, through to the textiles worn by Zapoteco women in the southern state of Oaxaca.

Materials
The palette is distinctive and contrasting, with porcelain and black underglaze drawing the eye to the mesmerising symmetry of the work.

Process
Each shape is hand built using coils, and then painstakingly decorated by hand using intricate lattice hand masking techniques, applied by hand to each pot individually, this takes many weeks to complete and requires the extreme patience and precision of a scientist, such as this ceramicist.

Inspiration
This collection centres on the theme of plant form. Coil by coil of hand crafted porcelain, pots rise to form distinct shapes that reminisce of barrel cacti, trumpet succulents and fanning magueys. The resulting vessels are adorned with symmetrical patterns inspired by decorative details in mexican prehispanic buildings and the organic repetition that comes naturally to leaves, stalks and roots.

Made in London using traditional pottery methods and skills, these hand-thrown planters evolve on the potters wheel and are made in a hardy stoneware clay. They are decorated with memories of hand drawn daisies and finished with a carpet of green glaze.

Materials
White stoneware clay, ceramic stain, copper glaze

Process: 8 kg of clay thrown by hand on the potters wheel to a cylinder shape. Dried slowly over 2 weeks and then bisque fired to 1000 degrees. Decoration using hand screen printed tissue transfer with ceramic stain is applied to the surface. The piece is fired, again and a copper glaze applied.

Inspiration
Those wonderful summer days of daisy carpeted lawns and fields evoking memories of childhood pleasure and daisy chain bouquets.

Large scale contemporary craft ceramics forged in the tradition of Industrial and Architectural landscapes - inspired by the colours, textures and shapes of large scale industry, raw honest materials and generations of hand hewn crafts.

Materials
Iron enriched buff stoneware, with tactile matt glazes which allows the rhythm and personality of the clay to emanate.

Process
The planter shape is initially formed using a slab and mould technique and is then finished on the wheel to compress and strengthen the walls and to leave each piece with some suggestion of the potters hands having been part of the process. Buff stoneware clay fired to 1260’C with some iron worked into the body to encourage speckles to break through the glaze. The glazed surface is contrasted with a band of unglazed coloured slip mixed to the desired tone and shade.

Inspiration
This collection springs from the studio pottery tradition, but its influences come equally from the world of industrial design, architecture or fashion. The collection captures the whimsy of childhood, the form started off as a humble little mug shape which has been scaled up to more impressive dimensions and the dry flat glaze at the base conjures the poster paints of yesteryear once joyously used as a child.

Trees, ocean scenery, the mountains, waterfalls, the force of gravity infuses each piece with an individual one of kind glaze creating a truly unique piece. KuraYuki (dark snow) is a winter pot, snow falling in the cold winter dark night sky.

Materials
White stoneware clay, using a layering glaze style and gravity to create unique ceramics.

Process
Two layered glazes that create unique dots in which snow is coming down from the cold winter dark night sky. Hand thrown in small batches made to order.

Inspiration
This collection is inspired by the Japanese Master Potter Mr. Shoji Hamada. His spontaneous designs and clean shapes are reflected in this body of work.