Cardiff
Quiet Vessel
Fewer pieces, longer lives.
Vessels and lidded jars, one firing at a time. A short list, booked a season ahead.
Work
Selected vessels
Thin Wall
Porcelain · 32 cm
Coil & Grogg
Hand-built · 40 cm
Trailed Slip
Slipware · earthenware
The studio
How I work
Cardiff
“Every piece begins as a conversation.”
Questions
Before you write
Can it go in the dishwasher?
It can, and it will not break — but the detergent takes the sheen off a glaze over years, and a hand wash in hot water keeps it longer. Wash the first one by hand, let it dry on a rack rather than a towel, and do not stack a heavy piece on a rim.
Will it take the oven and the microwave?
Fired stoneware takes both. What it does not take is a change of temperature in one move: no cold dish into a hot oven, and no hot pot set down on a wet bench. Warm it with the oven rather than before it, and let it come back down to room temperature on its own.
The glaze is not quite the colour of the photograph. Why?
Every firing is a different day. Ash and iron move in the kiln, so the surface you have is the one that came out — a shade deeper, a break in the colour where the clay runs thin, a fine crackle across a bowl. That is the firing rather than a fault, and two pieces from the same batch will not match.
The brief
Tell the studio what you have in mind
Answer what you can. Nothing is booked by sending this — it starts a conversation.