Our Ceramicists
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.
Sally Ovenden
I make handmade ceramics in my garden studio in the heart of the New Forest or in my shared studio space at Coda Music and Arts Trust. I am a collector; I love to forage in my (rather tiny) garden, comb the beach and explore my local area. I then use my treasures as inspiration for my work: the native birds, the local flora and fauna. I also observe the little things that many do not look out for: such as pebbles, shells, leaves and even bugs.
I aim to bring you my interpretation of the most beautiful things using my favourite materials. I work primarily in stoneware clay with some porcelain and earthenware occasionally depending on my aim.
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
Louise Pull is a Dorset based ceramic and resin artist.
Living in South Dorset for most of her life has led to a great interest in the
fauna, fossils, crystals and shells which can be found on its beaches and
cliffs.
We stock a range of Louise’s ammonite and Jurassic coast inspired clocks
and candle holders. She produces a range of ceramics based on the Jurassic
coast. Each object is functional and represents the natural shapes and
beautiful colours that are created within this wonderful landscape.
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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Harriet Wesley
Harriet Wesley is a ceramicist based in the New Forest creating beautifully
organic and textured functional and decorative pieces.
Her work is inspired by the surrounding New Forest, archaeological finds and
ancient ceramics and has a textured and organic exterior. The inside is often,
by contrast, smooth and glazed, as are the rims of vessels, and they are fired
to stoneware temperatures. She likes to produce sculptural pieces that are
also functional. Harriet hand builds her pieces using a combination of coiling
and slab building, then decorating using coloured clays and slips, stains and
oxides and sometimes use metal leaf to add a contrasting detail.
Tim Rose
After a career as a Landscape Architect, Tim has developed his love of landscape and natural elements into his pottery and pastel drawings. Pottery ranges from domestic wheel thrown stoneware, with a distinctive palette of shino and blue glazes, to more sculptural hand-built pieces, using textured clay, which are inspired by natural forms or vernacular building shapes. His vivid pastel drawings are usually inspired by the diverse Purbeck landscapes and seascapes. The quality of soft pastels compliment the subtlety and changing light of this area. Working with different mediums has always been a passion and a constant source of creativity.
Jacqui Fairweather
Jacqui creates a mixture of sculpture and functional items from high-fired stoneware from her garden studio in Wimborne, Dorset.
Having studied drawing, printing, and painting at art college in her youth, Jacqui brings these illustrative design qualities into her ceramic works which she discovered a love of and skill in when she moved to Dorset years later. She uses a combination of wheel throwing, hand building, and sculpting to create pieces inspired by nature’s shapes and colours, especially animals, embellished with a vibrant colour palette of stains and underglazes before glazing.
Kerry Jury
Kerry lives and breathes coastal life. When she isn’t working outdoors along our fabulous and tempestuous coastline, she is inspired by it to create her ceramics. Using a mix of hand building & wheel thrown techniques she creates adorable and detailed, animal sculptures as well some functional pieces.
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