Welsh potter and doctoral researcher at Cardiff School of Art and Design.

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Off for beers in the sunshine to celebrate my latest lap of the sun, so here’s a recent iteration of a beer cup 🍻 enjoy the weekend everyone ✌🏻
A particularly pleasing pot bottom from a recent commission. Happy Friday folks ✌🏻
One of the welcome surprises from the 48 test tiles I unloaded from firing number 24 this morning 🔥
Grey stoneware bottle, clear glaze, reduction fired to 1290. A flower favourite that I’m excited to revisit later this year.
I can’t thank everyone enough for all the birthday wishes 🙏🏻 I’ve spent today feeling very lucky and very grateful while I fired the gas kiln for the 24th time 🔥 the sun is out and the birds are singing and being 31 is so far proving t
Fingers crossed that my day to day looks something like this in another 31 years. I’d definitely be fascinated to see what my pots look like at 62, and I’d really like to make the wild swimming a regular activity. Massive thanks for the b
Perspective. Grogged high iron chawan. Reduction fired to 1290 degrees C 🔥
Porcelain sipper. Reduction fired to 1280 degrees C 🔥
How many potters have had pots damaged by couriers? Packaging lessons have been learnt and will not be forgotten, but there is still some low level background rage being directed at whichever carless human being sat on/bludgeoned my poor pots in tran
Throwing lines and a cool crackle glaze #kuan #chawan
Once I’ve made my way through a chunky order that’s been keeping me busy in the studio, I’ll have an online shop in my sights. My plan is to make a relatively tight range of functional pots, but with a nice selection of larger one o
Thrown plate with Ceolbren brushwork 🖌️
🔎 details: PhD artefacts in the making.
Bellied bowl, grey stoneware with matte white interior. Annoyingly un-stackable, happily rounded and functional.
Upscaling some jug forms after my Mick Casson inspiration a few weeks back. This was 3kgs of clay that I left out overnight to firm up a little. The clay consistency makes a world of difference for me on the bigger pieces, it always feels much easier
How do we feel about wavy rims? Im often undecided, but this one hits the mark. Maybe because the pot is simple? More porcelain to come later in the year ⚪️
Pots en masse in the studio today as I prepare work for an upcoming event. After spending the best part of this year doing repetition work, it was lovely to properly reacquaint myself with some one off pieces that I’ve been keeping to one side.
The latest iteration of a low slung coffee cup. Thrown grey stoneware and a pulled handle, featuring a different makers mark to align the work with my PhD endeavours. And does anyone have an idea where the term low slung comes from 🤷
I’m still very reluctant to get a pottery dog, given all the commitment it would entail. But in an extremely fortunate turn of events, I get to borrow Arthur for the week 🐾 What say the studio potters of the world? Dog or no dog? Luckily the n
A favourite handle on a favourite pot.