I’ve not got long left to recover & prepare, but I’m genuinely buzzing! 🥳
In less than two weeks 😱 I’ll be heading to @keramiekmarktswalmen for my first international fair. That still feels slightly surreal to type!
I was selected as one of five up-and-coming ceramicists under the banner of 'The New Generation' which is such a massive honour.
It came with a free stand, and I’ll also be doing a Q&A as part of it, which I’m simultaneously excited for and mildly terrified by in the way only live questions can make you feel!
The next week and a bit will be a blur of glazing, firing, packing, rethinking what I definitely “have time for”, and probably convincing myself I will be able to get some new things made 🤷♀️ but that is just the way I roll 😎
If you’re based in the Netherlands or neighbouring countries, and fancy seeing my work in real life, this is a rare chance.
I would genuinely love to see familiar faces and meet new ones! ❤️
Less than two weeks. Let’s go! 👏✨️
A few of you have emailed recently asking if my shop is broken… I promise it’s not, it’s just very empty 😅
There hasn’t been much (ok, anything) up there since Christmas apart from seconds boxes & vouchers and the reason is simply that I’ve been making. A lot.
For fairs, exhibitions, and all the lovely in-person things that remind me why I started working with clay in the first place.
Connection and community are such a huge part of this for me. I really love meeting people in real life, having those slightly rambling conversations over ceramics and seeing where the work ends up afterwards. It’s the best bit.
I’ve actually updated the banner on my website to reflect that shift because behind the scenes my work life is a bit of a patchwork: selling, teaching, demos, commissions, illustration… all the things that keep it ticking along.
Also, just to say it plainly - I’m living and working with a chronic illness. So, while things can look busy (and they are), there are moments where I have to quietly disappear and rest.
I do love this little space I’ve built on the internet, and I do feel guilty sometimes for not keeping up with regular online drops. However I’m learning to work in a way that’s actually sustainable, even if it’s a bit slower and less predictable.
If you’re on my mailing list, you will get first access when the shop updates (link above if you want to join). I’m hoping to do a drop in June 🤞
Anyway, just wanted to clear that up a bit and to also say thank you for sticking around! 🙏
I love nothing more than travelling around the country (this year, countries! 😍) and chatting ceramics with people who just get it 🥰
If you'd like to say hello, here’s where you can find me in real life between March & July:
📍 Manchester Ceramics Fair, The Whitworth
7th–8th March
📍 Ceramic Art London, Olympia
8th–10th May
📍 Internationale Keramiekmarkt Swalmen (Netherlands!)
24th–25th May
📍 Ceramic Wales, Bodrhyddan Hall
13th–14th June
📍 Potfest South West (Shaftesbury),
Motcombe Turnpike Showground
3rd–5th July
I’ll share end of year happenings once they’ve been confirmed ✨
Let me know if I'll see you at any of the above! 🤗
Hoping to bring a little magic to @keramiekmarktswalmen this weekend ✨️
Tom very thoughtfully got me a jackery & solar panels for Christmas last year & it means I might actually be able to bring some of the mains powered interactive pieces Ive made to outside fairs in 2026! 😍 Swalmen will be the first trial 🤞
Swipe to see this one in action, porcelain sculpture that comes to life with your touch 👐
Its always great when an exhibition drop off includes cake 😍🍰
Earlier today I popped over to @beveregallery to drop off some work for an exhibition next month, and one of the vases found a new home immediately after being unpacked 🥹🙏
The exhibition opens on the 6th June, and includes pieces by @jemma.gowland & @nicstaceceramics amongst others. I can't wait to see how our work interacts with each other!
Highlights from the current exhibition for me are @katherinetaylorceramics and @craigunderhill7 😍
Its such a gorgeous gallery and well worth a visit! ✨️
A few years ago at a fair someone looked at one of my sculptures and said they thought it moved for a second.
At the time I thought it would be funny to make that happen on purpose.
What started as a silly little idea has slowly turned into something much more meaningful.
These interactive pieces have ended up carrying conversations about touch, gesture, trust, memory, craft, technology and the strange ways they’re all connected.
There were collaborations with my dad, rabbit holes about early computers being rooted in weaving and textile systems, and the realisation that craft and technology aren’t opposite ends of a spectrum at all. They’ve always been speaking to each other.
There’s something important to me about an object responding to someone. About a sculpture only fully existing once a hand reaches toward it. A tiny exchange. A small agreement between person and object.
Touch is such a huge part of making. Clay remembers every fingerprint, every amount of pressure, every hesitation. Ceramics so often end up behind glass, removed from the very thing that formed them. I understand why - but it can also feel like a disconnect.
I think these pieces are partly an attempt to close that gap. To make work that asks to be handled gently. Work that gives something back when you do.
Still figuring out what it all means, so I hope that all makes sense! ✨️
Still buzzing from attending the Ceramic Art London Fair! I got up close with stunning pieces, chatted with brilliant artists, and realized we all share the same insecurities—yet we create anyway. I’m bringing back buckets of positivity to the studio! Check out their incredible work, and remember: feel the fear, but create anyway!
#potteryinspiration
#FeelTheFearAndTryItAnyway
#cal2026
#kekoclub
#ceramicartlondon
Wow. Still processing the weekend to be honest 🥹✨
I keep wishing I could pause time and sit in it for a little longer before real life barges back in with emails and laundry.
Huge thank you to @ceramicartlondon for having me back for a third year. It’s genuinely one of my favourite events, and every single part of the team (from organisers to volunteers) work so hard to make it happen.
You can really feel the care behind it all.
Also, big love to my stand neighbours and fellow exhibitors. I didnt get a photo of everyone, but you know who you are! 😍
Ceramicists really are a lovely bunch. So welcoming, so generous, so open.
Down to earth in every possible sense, including physically being covered in it half the time!
I’d been feeling a bit wobbly about my work beforehand, so seeing people smile, laugh, point, chat, connect with it… that meant more than I can properly say.
Thank you for taking the time to stop, interact, and take home pieces - especially the light up ones 🥹 There’s something very special about watching people get excited about the work you’re excited about too ❤️
Last but definitely not the least - the BIGGEST thank you to Merlyn, who drove all the way down from the North East to help me this weekend. Twenty years of friendship and still willing to spend a weekend hauling ceramics around with me - that’s love honestly. She’s an incredible artist and printmaker and you should absolutely go and follow her - @the_littlest_falcon
I came home with a few beautiful tiny ceramic treasures for my slowly growing collection, plus some very thoughtful gifts which made me feel a bit emotional.
Today is mostly being spent horizontal with a cat on my lap pretending I don’t have anything to do… before I start getting work ready to head to @beveregallery later this week ❤️
Thank you for all the kindness, enthusiasm and support. I really don’t take it for granted 🙏✨️
Best first day ever at @ceramicartlondon 🥰 I am honestly overwhelmed by the loveliness of everyone I spoke to today!
Thanks so much for your kind words & enthusiasm for my work - the critical voice in my head has been a bit too vocal recently and you've definitely helped to calm it ❤️
All of my light up pieces except the one pictured have found new homes - there is something so affirming about seeing the pieces you are enjoying making the most being so quicky snapped up 🙏
Beyond grateful and there are still two more days to go! How lucky am I 🥰
Pictured in the last slide are the super gorg @beccabrwn & @emilystubbsceramics who are just two of the wonderful ceramicists on the same row as me 🙏
A wonderful start to @ceramicartlondon 🥰 I think its pretty clear by my face how much fun I am having!
Some pieces have found their forever homes already, and Ive had some wonderful and rich conversations. Thanks so much if you stopped for a chat tonight 🙏 really looking foward to the rest of the weekend! 🌞
Scroll through for a little tour of my stand ❤️
Another new piece coming with me to @ceramicartlondon this week 💜
Made from porcelain, some stained a deep purple, and inspired by automatic drawings in my sketchbook ✏️
Come and experience 3D drawings and hidden worlds at stand 24, Olympia West hall between the 8th - 10th May ✨️
6 years in this studio 🤎
The longest I’ve ever stayed in one space.
We moved in mid-lockdown,
when everything felt uncertain and heavy.
This space felt like the opposite of that.
Quiet, steady. It offered no pressure to make anything.. and because of that, my work started to grow.
The space has changed a lot since then, and so has the work made in it. I suppose I have, too.
Anyone who laughed at how excited I was about having stairs should know the novelty has not worn off 😂 and yes, I sometimes still crack the door open to check everything is still there and its real.
I feel really lucky to still be here ✨️
