Our 2026 Line Up
Join us this year for an incredible showcase featuring over 50 ceramic artists and potters from across the UK and beyond! Each exhibitor will present their unique blend of creativity and craftsmanship for you to explore. Don’t miss your chance to take home one-of-a-kind pieces that you can treasure forever. Plus, enjoy live demonstrations and hands-on sessions to unleash your own creativity. Come and make lasting memories with us!
Helen Almond
I have lived on the Isle of Man for 18 years and love swimming in the sea in the south of the island where I am often joined by inquisitive seals! I am a science teacher but have recently gone part time to devote more time to developing my pottery skills. My biggest passion is to work on the wheel and to make functional pottery. There is nothing better than someone cherishing a handmade mug or having a favourite breakfast bowl! My friends and family provide me with plenty of inspiration, they have amazing ideas that I enjoy bringing to life!
Jill Benson
My art evolves constantly, but, my main focus is the natural world, the beach, the sea, animals, flora and fauna. I love textures and colour, pattern and form. I fire to SW using several types of clays.
Laura Brownsteele
Obscuria Made was created to make the everyday magical. Making for fantasy lovers that is art and function together from mugs with bookcases on housing your favourite things to sculptures inspired by your favourite stories or folklore tales. Laura have always loved folklore and how it gives you a link to the history of a place, and ties us to our homes, family, ancestors and the natural world around us, so as her pottery skills developed, it was only natural for Laura to use the love of folklore, tales and fantasy as a source for inspiration for what she makes.
Jack Burnett
Echino Ceramics, founded by Jack Burnett, focuses on functional, beautiful hand thrown pieces. Currently based in Sheffield, Echino makes for both restaurants and personal home use, delivering quality home decor and tableware for everyday use. Having recently graduated from university, I am trying to make it as a full time potter in an already saturated industry. I am beyond passionate, I live and breathe ceramics, and would love to get involved in this fair in any way I can.
Helen Butler
My name is Helen Butler and I am based in Belper, Derbyshire. I am both a potter and a printmaker working with porcelain paper clay that I make up myself. I love the translucency that I can achieve with this. My influences are from nature and pattern. I press seed-heads and other items into the clay to pick up the often very delicate details. This is then coloured using oxides and stains. I enjoy working directly onto the clay, working flat and then slab building to form my pieces. I produce both functional and decorative work.
Deborah Buxton
As a ceramic artist, I work with the form of the shoe—an object deeply entwined with femininity, power, and performance—to confront and reimagine the ways women’s bodies and identities are shaped by societal expectations. My work challenges misogyny and objectification, but also embraces the complex, layered joy of being a woman in today’s world. Much of my perspective has been shaped by my career in a male-dominated environment. Navigating those spaces, I became hyper-aware of how femininity is perceived, contained, or dismissed—often reduced to appearance, novelty, or threat. These experiences have fuelled my desire to question power structures through clay, a material that, like many women, is often underestimated for its strength and endurance. In my ceramic shoes, I exaggerate proportions, rupture surfaces, and create forms that are both alluring and unsettling. These are shoes no one could wear comfortably—deliberately so. They speak to the burdens and contradictions placed on women: to be desirable but not assertive, graceful yet unyielding, visible but silent. The ceramic medium—with its fragile appearance and fired durability—captures that tension perfectly. At the same time, my work is grounded in play, curiosity, and a deep appreciation for the absurdities of gender performance. I find joy in being a woman in this complex, contradictory society—especially when I can bend, break, and reshape the narratives that have long defined us. Humour, defiance, and beauty live side-by-side in my sculptures. These ceramic shoes are not accessories; they are acts of resistance, celebration, and reflection. They are reminders that femininity is not a weakness to be corrected but a force to be reckoned with—powerful, complicated, and absolutely worth honouring.
Lauren Carter
I’m a studio potter based near Edinburgh. I have worked semi-professionally with clay for the last 3 years, and having been educated in clay at the Edinburgh Design School in 2023. Although, I feel like I have been deeply connected with the art form of ceramics for most of my life, having grown up hearing stories of my mother working with clay in New Zealand when she was a teenager. I work with white stoneware to produce functional and beautiful homeware pieces. I’m drawn to sharp geometric shapes, and beautiful earthy colours, which guide my glazes. I want my pieces to be aesthetically capturing, and a comfort to use, as though it is an extention of whoever is holding them. LC Ceramics
Chorley Inspire Youth Zone
After last year’s success at Mudfest, our young people are excited to return and host another engaging daytime activity. At Inspire, our mission is to empower and enrich young lives, offering opportunities and support to help them grow into the best version of themselves. With the backing of Fired Up4 Charity, led by Kate Malone, we are passionate about putting clay into young hands—and watching their creativity come to life!
James Coogan
Drawing on a background in marine science and oceanography, James Coogan creates ceramic works that explore the fragile beauty of the polar regions. His pieces are inspired by glaciers, sea ice, and the shifting landscapes of the Arctic, often incorporating cracked slip, cool glazes, and textural surfaces that echo melting ice and fractured terrain.
Joanne Dale
My ceramics practice encompasses both sculptural and functional forms. I create large hand-built vessels that investigate surface, texture, and the passage of time, alongside a range of wheel-thrown pieces designed for everyday use. The vessels evolve through a process of layering and eroding underglazes, where traces of addition and removal become part of the final surface. This approach embraces imperfection and reflects my interest in organic transformation, with influences drawn from the material qualities of the built environment
Linda DeMelo-Garner
I’m a ceramic artist creating functional stoneware pieces that are made to be used and enjoyed every day. Working from my studio in Cheadle, Cheshire, I throw each piece by hand on the wheel, focusing on clean forms, comfortable handles, and rich, layered glazes inspired by nature and seasonal shifts. My work blends utility with quiet beauty—inviting people to slow down, savour daily rituals, and connect with the handmade.
Sientje Dombrowski
Sientje is a trained potter who creates hand-thrown, small batch pieces from stoneware clay for the home and garden. Every one of her pots is handmade from start to finish, from throwing the clay on the potter last wheel to brushing the glazes on by hand to firing them on the kiln. As a result, each piece is unique and varied. Sientje believes that using hand-made pieces brings a warmth and energy to the home that you cannot find in industrially produced pots. Her work is strongly influenced by the Scottish scenery and the time she spent working in a pottery on the Isle of Skye. Her glazes mirror thr colours if the Scottish landscape, from the blues and greens of the sea to the copper and heather hues found in the Scottish mountains. Her main focus is on bringing natural colours into the home to brighten up spaces and bring joy to the people who use them.
Judit Esztergomi
I make wheel-thrown and press-moulded tableware from stoneware clays: functional and simple pots, which are meant to be used every day. Their uncomplicated, curved forms sit comfortably in one’s hand and provide the blank canvas for my patterns. My decoration techniques all involve carving through or scraping back, sgraffito and inlay being my favourites. Inspiration comes from various sources: the heritage of my motherland, Hungary and its traditional folk pottery; the country’s hilly landscapes with their softly waving silhouettes, the meadow grasses and flowers as they gently move in the wind. My landscape architect background adds the love for regularity, order and intricate details.
Lexi Evans
I'm a potter, based in Belladrum, in Scottish Highlands, running as a full time business since June 2024. I make a variety of functional pottery and homewares. My pottery glazes are inspired by the beautiful sights around my pottery studio: Heather Skies and Highland View. I also create a variety of Wee Creatures and my unique Toadstool Treat Dishes.
Hannah Flush
Hannah started creating pots a little over 10 years ago when completing a Decorative Arts degree specialising in glass and ceramics. Her pottery is based all around the coast and natural landscape. The work is functional as Hannah has always had a huge passion for interiors and individuality in the home. She likes to keep as many elements of her work raw to reflect the coastal landscape. Therefore a lot of the work is half glazed and half unglazed using a mix of textures to reflect the rough with the smooth. All her work is hand thrown in her studio in small batches. She enjoys teaching throwing classes and also makes custom orders for cafes and individuals.
Deborah Frith
I create figurative sculptures, horses and crows as well as 'greenwoman' wall art in high fired stoneware ceramic.
Caroline Gault
Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Zombiecazz, where clay comes to life in ways that might make you grin—or squirm. I’m Caroline Gault, a ceramic conjurer who slip casts, hand builds, and wheel throws my way through a universe of curious creatures and uncanny forms. My work is fired with electricity, wood, and raku (gas)—because why settle for one kind of chaos when you can have three? Inspired by horror, folklore, and all things macabre, I sculpt characters that dance on the edge of delight and discomfort. Some are cheeky, some are creepy, and some are just plain strange—but all are born from a love of storytelling and a desire to make you feel something. Whether it’s a goblin with a grin or a vessel with a dark secret, my ceramics invite you to look closer, laugh louder, and maybe check under your bed tonight.
Laura Green
My work reflects a deep connection with the outdoors and in particular the ocean. I create wheel-thrown ceramics inspired by the landscape around me where I live at the edge of the Lake District where the fells meet the sea and beyond, reflecting my travels around the world. I explore natural tones and shifting textures. I’m drawn to the use of blues and greens captured on forms that are both familiar and reflective, creating objects that can be used everyday yet still evoke a sense of place and story. Through making I aim to translate the rhythm of nature, of the ocean and our connection with the earth into something tangible, functional and quietly alive.
Alice Grey
My sculptural ceramics are concerned with the Ocean, with the myths and folklore associated with it and the splendid creatures that live in it. I enjoy experimenting with different clay’s techniques and processes.
Derek Harbinson
I throw functional and decorative ceramics, inspired by a 1970s childhood, the natural and industrial landscapes of my homes then and now (Northern Ireland and the Peak District) and a love of mid-century design.
Sara Hood
Neurodiverse artist creating sculptural and functional ceramic pieces which celebrate the beauty of the differences that neurodiversity brings and promote acceptance of all neurotypes. The fight, flight and freeze response is prevalent in most neurodiversity's the rabbit is used as a symbol of the freeze response, wings for the flight and antlers and horns for the fight response.
Jaroslav Hrustalenko
My creativity is driven by a passion for colour, shape and strong visual impression of momentum. I appreciate pure aesthetics of form, expressed in clean but complex geometric lines and proportions of golden ratio. Initially inspired by tango dance, I often use deliberate juxtaposition of the geometrically stylised gendered vessels, conceptualized in pairs or groups, to explore the phenomenon of complimentary counterparts’ unity and independence, as one of the key expressive means.
Roisin Hyland
Roisin hand-builds whimsical stoneware creatures with hand‑sewn costumes, capturing quiet childhood wonder and inviting others to rediscover a magical world.
Jeanet Ingwersen
I make a variety of pieces, ranging from smaller spoon rests to large vases and serving trays. I am born in Denmark and grew up in Norway, so I am inspired by Scandinavian design. I like to think that my work reflects the simplicity and functionality inherent in Danish design and while capturing the rugged landscapes of Norway in the textured surfaces.
Jane Jennings
Jane Jennings create hand thrown ceramic pieces that are both functional and decorative. Using both flecked and black stoneware she concentrates on the simplicity of form often contrasting the texture of unglazed clay areas to the smoothness of the glazed areas.
Liz Jones
Liz Jones is a ceramic artist based in Conwy, North Wales, working with both porcelain and stoneware clay. Her practice explores layered surface techniques combining slip, stains, glaze, and lustre to enhance form and surface. Exploring layered surfaces where each texture and colour adds depth, movement, and emotion with every piece unfolding its own unique story. With a strong emphasis on surface pattern and narrative, Liz’s ceramics draw from nature and personal memories.
Sue Kaskiewicz
Hand building clay animals including personalised cats and dogs focussing on a textured and tactile finish, using oxides, stains and glazes. Also creates hand built vessels coloured with various bright coloured slips and stains.
Carrie Kendra Togwell
Carrie finds the greatest connection with clay through hand building, from shaping flat sheets of clay into elegant functional ware, to coiling and pinching clay into sculptural vessels, wall pieces, or jewellery. She loves the problem-solving solving aspect of functional work, and the challenges of balancing the needs of purpose, functionality and aesthetics. Her functional ware is made from rolled out slabs of porcelain white stoneware clay shaped by hand. The gently curved unglazed bases are then finely sanded until sea pebble smooth, creating an addictively tactile surface to hold. Her handles are formed from squeezing strips of clay, capturing the skeletal impressions which are aesthetically striking, practical, and connect the maker to the user in a tangible handhold. Her sculptural vessels are coil built, with textures which use light and shade to create surface interest alongside splashes of colour. Pieces are decorated with vibrant contemporary underglaze patterns, and glazes in vivid blues, bright turquoise, and blacks (in raku) set against pure whites. Her colour palette unconsciously evoking images of hot coastal shores. Her latest sculptural vessels have explored spiral textures looking at sacred geometry and the golden ratio. This led to wall pieces using the nautilus shell as inspiration. The spiral is one of Earth’s most ancient of symbols, representing the infinite motion of the universe and the continuous changing and evolving journey of life.
Tatjana Kozlovska
I make up to 75 per cent of my items using coloured clay and cover them with transparent glaze. I use different techniques and styles. As a result, each of my items is a unique and can not be repeated.
Deborah Land
I produce hand thrown functional and decorative stoneware. My work is inspired by the simplicity of Scandinavian and Japanese design, with forms that highlight the clay's texture evoking the landscapes I have encountered on my travels. My range includes a full range of tableware and functional wares from dinner plates and bowls to everyday mugs that are specifically designed to fit your hand reflecting that true Hygge Scandinavian vibe!
Tony Laverick
I make porcelain vessels and sculptural ahapes which i decorate using slips and glazes in multiple firings.
Fran Marquis
I have been making functional and sculptural ceramics for the last 20 plus years and particularly enjoy the process of Woodfiring. My best ceramic pieces show the effect of the fire in the kiln and are also unique and ergonomic pieces.
Fiona Mazza
Fiona Mazza is a ceramic artist living in Yorkshire and over the last 28 years has developed numerous skills through making, teaching and technician work. The core of the work is based on nature, particularly the amazing butterfly world. However, Fiona enjoys the challenge of designing and making individual pieces using many techniques, this allows her to explore clay in many areas. Fiona’s work is inspired by nature. Butterflies are the main focus. Ceramic Pieces are produced in various techniques, she loves incorporating different materials, often working with other craft makers to produce truly different pieces of work. Fiona loves exploring the surface of the pot, using the surface like a canvas, pushing the material to its limits, often representing the natural world’s challenges from mans impact. After a fire in the adjoining building of her studio in Pateley Bridge, which destroyed a lot of equipment and important reference work, Fiona slowly started building up a small studio space at home in Harrogate.
Laura McNicholas
Working in porcelain to create sculptural vessels, wall hangings, and jewellery, my work not only celebrates the northern landscape, but also my family history. I am a collector and retriever, repurposing my collection of natural detritus and scavenged driftwood alongside vintage lace and crochet founded in my family’s craft heritage to impress the clay and its formations with memories and journeys. Bringing together shapes and forms I remember the topography of well-traversed coastlines, rockpools and coves. I am excited by the endless possibilities achieved by layering and combining glazes, constantly experimenting with form, colour, texture, and heritage, and balancing this with my fascination with environments and climatic changes to create pieces that are perfectly unique.
Joseph Morgan
I’ve always loved robots and beasties, and I’ve always loved working with clay. So it made sense to make them out of clay. My creations are handmade using slabs and extrusions. I fire them in a variety of kilns to stoneware temperatures. Some of them are happy and some of them sad, but all of them are awesome.
Julie Morris
Fwootpot ceramics comes out of the head of Julie Morris, creating her 'slightly different' one of a kind pieces from her workshop in Hull. Everything she creates trys to include one of the following (or more than one!), dolls faces, wings, ears, arms and possibly a leg.
Kevin Morris
The physical, social, and cultural landscape and environment i find myself in is hugely important to my work and development. Based in Aberdeen I am often referred to as a ‘Nomadic Ceramicist’ exhibiting my work nationally and internationally as well as working with a range of artists, institutions and on various public projects. Initially motivated by an investigation of my own family heritage and material culture my recent work engages with concepts of craft, material, and place, often exploring themes of multi-generational craft. Making narrative work that considers traditional and contemporary practice as well our collective connections to heritage and tradition through ceramics I feel my practice is an extension of the lineage of practitioners who have gone before me making contemporary work that contributes to this. Thematically my recent work and practice has been shaped by northern landscapes, exploring themes of identity and place often through local eating and drinking cultures, focusing on these narratives and rituals associated with living within northern places, and how these actions preserve intimate and strong connections towards ‘north’ as itself, a place. I feel by their very nature; ceramics and food forge connection, cohesiveness and symbolize the intrinsically communal and collaborative aspects of both practices. Integral to my practice is participation and engagement, valuing opportunities to learn alongside others.
Alasdair Nelson
Alasdair is a passionate ceramic artist who explores the world through the medium of clay. Trained at Central Saint Martins, he earned his BA in Ceramic Design, where he first discovered the transformative power of glaze. The possibilities of glaze—its texture, depth, and colour—captivated him, and this fascination continues to drive his work today. Alasdair's art reflects a constant pursuit of innovation, with each piece an exploration of the unique interactions between form, texture, and the dynamic nature of glaze.
Linda Newman
I create calm, functional ceramics inspired by everyday moments and natural simplicity. Each piece is made with care to be both beautiful and useful, encouraging a slower, more mindful way of living. Sustainability is central to my practice, guiding everything from material choices to the timeless designs I aim for. In my newly expanded studio, I’m now sharing what I’ve learned through small workshops and lessons, helping others discover the joy of working with clay.
Danny O'Connor
I am a wood-firing potter using an anagama style tunnel kiln to make the most of ash deposits and flame effects. I make functional ware and one of a kind pieces alike and enjoy responding to each piece of clay in a way that feels natural, without forcing the same forms time and time again. I throw all of my pieces on a momentum kick wheel and raw glaze the ware, skipping the bisque firing. This contributes to a natural sense of rhythm which carries through every making cycle like a pulse until the kiln is fired and finally opened. I try not to over-edit my work, allowing the pots and the firing to speak for themselves.
Lizi Pickup
Elizabeth’s work combines rustic, natural pottery with brightly coloured hand painted ceramics, inspired by a combination of Kandinsky’s colourful energy and the street art found in Manchester and beyond. The unique surface decoration has been created using underglazes applied with paint brushes and fine liners, and underglaze transfers. All the decoration has been added at the green ware stage then fired, followed by a final transparent glaze. Alongside her wheel thrown work, Lizi has created a range of hand built characterful elephants , highly decorated using underglazes and a variety of stoneware glazes. After making 365 unique elephants in 2025, Lizi has continued to make one off elephant sculptures in varying sizes.
Danielle Pilling
Studio 9 Ceramics crafts handmade decorative pieces inspired by the rugged North East coastline. From delicate bud vases to bold statement works, each piece reflects a sense of place and personal storytelling. Influenced by painting, the ceramics blend color, texture, and layered glazes to evoke nostalgia and invite interpretation. More than objects, they are designed to spark emotion and connection.
Jeni Poree
Hedgebound England is a small studio pottery based in rural Lancashire. My ceramic art is woven together with my love of folklore, folktales and folk-magic and the roles they play in bringing humans into an understanding with the natural world. Through my work I strives to create a sense of nostalgia in the viewer even though they will never have seen any of them before. the aim of Hedgebound is to create a magic toy shop for those who still feel wonder at the world.
Eliza Potter
My name is Eliza Potter. I am a ceramic sculptor artist, I hold a masters degree in ceramics. I work with a variety of clays, glaze techniques, and scales. My practice is rooted in an exploration of psychological, mythological aspects within nature and the human condition. I combine alchemy into my methodology to invite chance and exploration. I’m drawn to, complex forms that carry a sense of story — forms that invite curiosity and emotional response. My work features a variety techniques from Nichrome armatures, installations and interconnecting pieces. I am in the process of producing hand made ceramic jewellery alongside my sculptures.
Kerstin Robb
I have been exploring ceramics since teenage. I tend not to mass produce, preferring to make more bespoke pieces drawing on the natural beauty that surrounds me in my everyday life, I try and create pieces of work that reflect the innate love and adoration I have for the natural world. I have exhibited at Spring Potfest in the Pens, Mudfest and Pittenweem Arts Festival. I am also a member of Scottish Potters, Perthshire Open Studios and Strathmore Open Studios.
Deborah Robinson
Deborah Robinson I have been sculpting in clay for over 30 years but retiring from engineering design several years ago allowed me to fuse my 3D technical ability with a love of clay to develop my technique. I work in stoneware and porcelain, sculpting human characters inspired by local history and rural life from Morecambe Bay and the Lake District. My most recent work has been inspired by archive footage of the Morecambe Bay ladies Swimming challenge from the 1920s. I also create animal forms, including pet commissions and native wildlife. Each piece is entirely hand built and finished using velvet underglaze, gloss glaze and oxides. I aim to sculpt with sensitivity and empathy for my subject, inviting the viewer to relate and reflect on the character, personality and spirit of each piece. I am also a member of Cumbria Sculptors, Northern Potters and Craft Potters Association
Gill Rogers
I am a north west based potter making thrown stoneware for the table and the home. Tactile forms take inspiration from nature with a palette of greens, blues of the hills and lakes and soft creams and pinks of soft morning skies. Graphic design of tarns and fells and striking fern motif wrap around forms.
Roslin Pottery
I've always made things: fine art, science festivals and now pottery. Making things is my attempt to reconstitute the world, to heal, repair, to share power and to share beauty. I'm inspired by all the good things around me: I am surrounded by nature and beauty, but also love, community and people carrying themselves with compassion through hard times. Each piece is a labour of craftsmanship and love, and each is slightly different to any other piece. I make mugs, bowls, plates, candle sticks, decorative tiles, sea urchins and sometimes tapirs. My work is stoneware.
Helen Rossetti
I am a ceramic sculptor specialising in hand built pieces. I am inspired by mythology, fables and literature, exploring the boundaries between imagination and reality. My sculptures breathe new life into age-old stories, transforming them into tangible forms that invite viewers to explore and connect. Each piece captures the essence of mythological characters and the enchanting world of folklore.
John Scott
I specialise Naked Raku and Copper Matt Raku, all my work is thrown or hand built.
Sarah Sharp
We are Movers & Shapers Pottery Tools, a Yorkshire-based small business creating innovative, functional, and beautifully designed tools for potters. Each piece is developed, tested, and refined by hand in our own studio to enhance the making process — from precision shaping and texturing to forming handles and decorative details. Our tools are 3D-printed using durable, high-quality, plant based materials and finished with care to provide comfort, control, and consistency for potters of all levels. Alongside our tool range, we will be exhibiting a curated collection of ceramics, made using our own Movers & Shapers tools. These pieces demonstrate the creative potential of our designs in use, showing how texture, form, and character can be brought to life through the tools we create. At Mudfest 2026, we hope to showcase both sides of our practice — toolmaking and making, offering visitors the chance to see, handle, and purchase our tools while also experiencing how they can be used in finished ceramic work.
Alice Simpkins-Woods
I make functional ceramics that celebrate the quiet, grounding moments we seek out in our busy lives. My work combines simple, wheel-thrown stoneware forms with colourful, nostalgic illustrations of natural elements. Think seaweed, bogs, birds, and plants. These small details act as gentle reminders to stay present and connected to the landscapes that surround us. Inspired by time spent working on a nature reserve and exploring remote coastlines and boggy terrains of Cumbria and Scotland, my pieces find balance between precision and play. With a background in architecture and a recent turn toward nature conservation, I’m drawn to the meeting point of structure and organic life. Now based in Kendal, I make from my small home studio, producing work that reflects a slow, thoughtful way of making and living.
Kathryn Stevens
Kathryn makes sculptural forms influenced by technical drawings known as lofting plans used in the ship and boat building industries, creating a theme of work inspired by Cumbria’s natural and industrial landscape. Connecting with the viewer to tell a personal story of belonging, surface treatments are applied layered upon another to provide meaning of sense of place, which entwine the rich history of her birthplace with her family heritage and attachment. The location of a once thriving steel shipbuilding industry now stands a graveyard of forgotten rotting wooden boats provides interesting textures to inspire her work. Formulating her own clay body and glaze recipes using local raw materials and industrial waste, evidences the area's geological formation, helping to cement her work in the field of narrative ceramics.
Rachel Toth
I am a ceramicist based in Angus, Scotland, making wheel-thrown functional stoneware pieces.
Susan Wade-French
As an artist working with clay, I find endless inspiration through the rythmn of nature's changing seasons, the animals and plant life within the landscape and coastlines of the land. Using Earthenware and Soneware clays, I use a variety of hand building methods such as coiling, press moulding and slab rolling to create unique ceramic pieces such as, Art for Walls, Table Top Sculpture, Ceramic Animals of various sizes and much more, to be incorporated into an outdoor and home setting.
Abigail Walton
Homeware ceramics that imbue the wilds of Scotland from the majestic mountains to the ethereal pine forests and tranquil loch shores. Combined with a love of fantasy literature to create ethereal whimsical pieces.
Ash Watson-Slorance
Ash creates small batch ceramics adorned with sgraffito and hand painted designs which are derived from her watercolour paintings. Most of the pieces are hand thrown and then altered to keep a gentle softness which follows through to the pastel and gem toned glazes. Florals and feminine faces are draped around bud and tall vases, which allows individual pieces to accompany each other or sit alone. She is focused on decorative work on vases, mugs, trays and small plant pots. Ash loves to collect small treasures and is touched when people buy her work to take home to do the same.
Philippa Whiteside
As seen on the BBC 1 series of Make it at Market, broadcasted March 2025 and available on iPlayer catchup- Series 3, Episode 4. A Lancashire based ceramic maker, Pip pushes porcelains capabilities employing both the fragility and strength of the material. Colour has always played a key role, mixing pigments into a porcelain body and achieving a kaleidoscope of joy. She sees a link between the creative process and emotional wellbeing; being creative is her therapy, her escape. Pip has a BA Hons in Glass and Ceramics (2007-10), a PGCE in Art and Special Educational Needs (2016-17) and an Advanced Certificate in Counselling, (2019-21). Clay has taken Pip to America three times for artist residencies and exhibitions; she has taught ceramics in schools and colleges and used it as a wellbeing tool in the healthcare sector, both for inpatient and outpatient care. After a career helping others, Pip has come full circle, returning to Lancashire and to clay as a practicing artist. We can do brave things.
Elise Whitley
MousePots is a collection of whimsical animal themed pots and dishes. I am based on the outskirts of Glasgow and am inspired by the character, charm, and quiet humour I find in the natural world around me. I create functional forms that invite both playfulness and practicality into everyday life. Each piece begins as a simple vessel, hand-thrown or hand-built in stoneware clay and from there the animals emerge. I aim to capture the character of these creatures, not in an anatomical sense but in gesture, posture, and spirit. Every piece is made with care and a touch of mischief and reflects the delight of turning a pot into something that looks like it might wink at you across the breakfast table. MousePots are always functional but never take themselves too seriously.