Fiona Kelly
Hello there - I've been making pots for over 40 years. Clay is a magical material. It amazes me that you can start with just a ball of soft, plastic clay and end up with a solid, durable item to use in your home everyday. Over the years my work has evolved and extended, new lines and features are added every year as new challenges and ideas present themselves.
Most of my pieces are hand thrown on an electric wheel. I twice fire in an electric kiln, the first firing to 1000°C, then the items are glazed and fired a second time to 1280°C.
Louise Pull
Living in South Dorset for most of my life has led to a great interest in the fauna,
fossils, crystals and shells which can be found on its beaches and cliffs.
I produce a range of ceramics based on the Jurassic coast. Each object’s design is
highly functional, but also represents the natural shapes and beautiful colours that
are created within this wonderful landscape.
Vicky Swift
Sustainability has been at the very heart of my work for over 20 years.
I work from my potting shed at the bottom of my garden - reclaiming, reusing and upcycling to create unique gifts and sculptures.
Everything is hand crafted by me using reclaimed, found and vintage materials including cutlery, stained glass and driftwood.
If I’m not in my potting shed you may find me at the beach having a little sea swim :)
Elaine King
Now working independently and recently moved to Wimborne Minster, Dorset, Elaine is fast becoming recognised as an established British maker. Her ceramic artwork is collected in the UK and overseas. She has developed her own hand-built techniques and designs in both functional and sculptural ceramic pieces. Elaine's work clearly demonstrates her love of colour, texture and form, mostly inspired by surfaces and patterns found in nature and the landscape. Her inspiration comes from observations made in typically English habitats; hedgerows, garden borders, meadows and more recently forests and woodlands.
Elaine creates her work in white earthenware clay and decorates her pieces with a palette of subtle oxides, slips and underglaze colours. She devotes research time making 2D studies from her garden, walks over the Berkshire Downs and along the Dorset Ridgeway and Cornish coastline, one of her most favourite places in the world. In recent months, Elaine has developed a selection of both hand-built and thrown ceramics, beautifully decorated, inspired and designed through the naturally occurring pattern of plants, seedheads and trees.
Bridget Brittain
Bridget spent her childhood in Cape Town, South Africa before travelling to Asia in her twenties. She lived in Hong Kong for 15 years working and bringing up a family. In 2010 she relocated to England with her family to farm in Dorset. She studies Fine Art at a local college and now live and works as an artist on the family farm.
Bridget predominately creates functional ware inspired by the farmland around her; the silhouette of the trees against the winter sky, a black bird screeching in the fields and the ever changing wonders that arise from the seasons. All this is infused with the heat of her African roots and the years of living in Asia, giving her work a unique and contemporary feel.
Nicky Stockley
Wildlife and particularly birds, feature heavily in Nicky's paintings. It is this idea of bringing creatures to life on a page that has inspired Nicky's newest body of work in wall ceramics.
Owls and puffins flying across the wall or perhaps stags and hares leaping are ideal pieces for those looking for something totally unique with limited wall space.
These pieces are hand sculpted in an epoxy based clay, then painted with acrylic and varnished in resin.
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