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 A COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY HANDMADE TABLEWARE

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Just as frost appears at home, I’m in Indonesia on a short break with my daughter who’s flown home for a visit to the UK and is on her way back to Sydney for another year. What a great way to spend a week of 1:1 with my first born & r&r after my first half marathon👌🏻🙏🏻🙌🏻 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩
Autumn 🍂
In conversation. My favourite part of making is the fettling, the finishing of a piece. The conversations you have with a piece of work, how much to sponge, cut, pare away, or leave in tact, or peel away the surface to create just the right radius is an ongoing dialogue you have with an object in order to create & present a piece that’s just right...and balanced.. I’ve always said that you can get others to make work for you, such as a factory, but it’s hard to get someone else to replace the ideas. But, actually this might only be true in part, I’ve noticed that the more people who come to help out in the studio, the nuances of making & finishing become more apparent, the discussions that we have differ for each of us, sometimes, or probably always they’re intuitive and not wholly formed in an open discussion. Holly, for instance is left handed & fettles spouts slightly more heavy on the right side than the left, Karen makes them pointy like a witches hat; it’s a standing joke we all have in the workshop about Karen’s witchy spouts! Yesterday, my eldest daughter came to help out, she doesn’t have much experience in the studio and has been living in Australia for the last year, so I treated her to a bit of studio practice...well, it was an ideal opportunity for some 1:1! I noticed that she finished spouts exactly the same way I do.. why is that? Does she has the same manual dexterity already built in? There’s another discussion too about craft & manufacture & where the line blends... but that’s for another time.. interesting huh?! . . . #crafted #craft #hapticskill #handmade #manufacture #industrialcraft #pottery #design #making #ceramics #workmanship #industrialdesign
Fish finger sandwich on my butter yellow special plate for chef @clovecks at his new venture @twolightslondon: ‘In season from now until March, Sardines are caught off the cornish coast and delivered to the restaurant daily. We bread them in Panko crumbs and serve with shredded cabbage and Bulldog brand Katsu sauce.’ . . . #twolightslondon #shoreditch #platesforchefs #tabletopmatters #chefsroll #tablewaredesigner #tableware #pottery
Mug shot 🙌🏻
In development; a soft coupe in gradients of white with undulating edges, indicative of the slipcasting process, letting the clay & the kiln dictate the form. This range is a really lovely contrast to my main Mr & Mrs studio range, complementing the fixed curve & tight form with a fluid range of natural curves. . . . #elevatedeveryday #styleonmytable #tablewaredesigner #crafted #industrialcraft #platesforchefs #dinnerware #studiopottery #theartofslowliving #tabletopmatters
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Last day at @ldndesignfair so last chance to see such a vibrant & diverse collection of design, it’s been brilliant meeting so many people, if you haven’t got here yet, it’s open til 5! I’m on stand 10.52 with @wild_and_wood
Afternoon tea anyone? . . . #ldf18 #wildandwood #concrete #ceramic #tableware #styleonmytable
We’ve had a great couple of days so far @ldndesignfair, it’s a really vibrant & diverse show & visitors come from everywhere, its been a big social event too catching up with design, craft & ceramic industry friends, so lovely to see that Everyone comes to this event! The show continues Saturday & Sunday is open to the public! . . . #ldf18 #ceramicdesign #tableware #design #holeandcorner #contemporarycraft #crockery #seekthesimplicity #mydarlingminimal #styleonmytable #aslowmovement #myquietbeauty #simpleandstill #elevatedeveryday
Deliberately Off Centre, I cannot tell you how liberating that feels after working with tight, perfect form for so long... designed to complement my studio range, the soft matt organic forms lend another dimension to the table landscape! Come along & have a peak at some new additions launching @ldndesignfair stand 10.52 . . . #tablelandscape #tablearchitecture #tablewaredesign #platesforchefs #sexyplates #ldf18 #pottery #ceramics #sueprykemanufactory
A student asked me the other day how long does it take to make a mug... my, probably patronising, reply was anywhere between 6 days to 6 weeks! On the face of it that seems excessively long, especially when the slipcasting process takes a very short amount of time. In reality there’s more than a dozen stages to making a mug. I cast my handles separately & apply them after casting, so that’s two sets of moulds & items to trim/fettle & sponge & finish before the first firing. Even in mass production there’s still handles to be applied by hand and fettling & sponging to be done. So it probably takes a day to cast a mug & allow to dry slowly. Day 2 is to fettle, sponge & dry throughly, maybe into the kiln that day or day 3 for a bisq fire. Day 4 is for the bisq kiln to cool & for glazing at the end of the day if all goes to plan or more likely for kiln cooling & glazing on Day 5 & back into the kiln for a glaze firing, so at a push it’ll be ready on day 6 depending on how fast things can be turned around. So if all goes to plan, & there’s no issues with the kiln, or making then it takes 6 days, if it doesn’t go to plan and the item needs to be remade then that’s 2 weeks etc & things never go to plan with ceramics! The other thing is, you don’t tend to just make one mug, they’re made in multiples, depending on how many moulds you have, so I could make 50 mugs in one go which just makes it longer & longer to cast, fettle, sponge, & get through the kilns & glazing & all the processes so that 6 day period has a habit of getting more & more prolonged😉 The image is pinched from Helen @designhunter_uk , it’s one of my favourite shots of this mug.. it shows off the shape perfectly👌🏻. . they’ll be plenty of these dark grey mugs available to buy at @ldndesignfair where we’re setting up today, show opens tomorrow! . . . #design #ceramics #tableware #chefstalk #pottery #industrialcraft #tablewaredesigner #styleonmytable