ceramic

Meet Melanie Made Mud, a potter based in Monmouthshire, where she makes functional ceramics in stunning glazes that evoke the Welsh landscape, sculptural pieces inspired her lurchers and an enduring fascination with whales, and collaborates with House of Hawks on a collection of illustrated pots.

Clare Anderson makes wheel-thrown ceramics from the studio at the end of her garden in Sheffield, with one eye on creating beautiful, functional pieces and the other on the planet.

Meet Bev Seth from Seth Ceramics, a Sheffield-based potter who makes imaginative pieces inspired by storytelling and nature that delight and amuse.

Meet Louise Crookenden-Johnson, a ceramic artist who makes happy pottery – creating colourful, characterful animals, birds and flowers from her studio down a garden path in Kettering.

Lorna Gilbert is a potter inspired by those moments you can’t put into words: sweeping horizons, vast open spaces, the beauty of a fern slowly unfolding. But for Lorna, clay is also therapy. Read her story in our Meet the Maker interview.