Glaze Influences

The one that started it all. A soft cornflower blue poured over white, with the clay left to show through at the edges so it never looks too neat. It is the glaze most people reach for first, and the one that suits almost any kitchen.

Turquoise breaking over sand. This pairing came from summers on the Llŷn Peninsula, where the water turns properly green in the shallows and the beach is the colour of unfired clay. The turquoise pools where the glaze runs thickest, exactly as it does on the shoreline.

Soft green over a rustic sand. Taken from the woods close to the studio in early autumn, when the moss is still bright and the leaf litter underneath has gone warm and dry. Quiet, low-contrast, and easy to live with.

A deep, unapologetic pink brought back down to earth by a soft sand base and small brown flecks in the clay body. Named for the peonies that flower for about a fortnight and are worth the wait.

Blue over a soft sand, drawn from walking the gritstone edges above Macclesfield. On a clear day the rock reads grey-blue against dry bracken, and that is the pairing here, a warmer blue than Cornflower, set on a soft, sandy base.

The most direct of the six. Navy slip is marked straight onto the raw clay by hand and sealed under a clear glaze, so the mark stays exactly as it was made. No two are the same, and none of them can be repeated.