I’ve always been creative, my whole family is from Grandparents downwards, Grandads loved to scale model making, playing piano and garden design. My Grandmas played the piano, dress making, knitting and crochet. Mum does all things textiles, sketching and painting and...
My husband and I love having an afternoon tea treat when we have time together which is not often and I was wondering where this tradition came from. When we are away on holiday if we can’t find something that will pass for afternoon tea we adopt the local foods even...
Do you know that we run clay sessions where you can come and create an item by hand? You can make all sorts of things by hand with clay without needing a potters wheel. When customers book in to work with clay I always suggest they arrive with some ideas, then I can...
Have you ever wondered what happens to your pottery after you have painted it? Well first we ensure the description on your customer sheet is correct, so we can identify it when it comes out of the kiln to be wrapped. Then we sit your pottery on our drying shelves for...
Most of our customers have “met” Katy the kiln over the years, my treasured kiln who has fired thousands of pots over the 9.5 years I have had her. She was re conditioned in 2005 for me by the team at Northern Kilns and installed in our garage at home in...
You just never know what is going to land your way! Back in July I was out doing our weekly food shop when my phone pinged telling me I had a Twitter notification. Brian, who I met years ago when he came to see Stan who owned the chip shop next to my studio, had seen...
