Finished Piece
Gold Floral Dish
Frilled oval dish in inky blue with a sgraffito gold flower.
Half Baked Pottery
Handmade pottery with bold design and lots of colour.
This site is still a work in progress while I'm working on items to display here. What's shown is generally work in progress. Follow Instagram for the most up-to-date work and check back later for finished pieces.
The Work
Selected pieces
Finished Piece
Splatter Ashtray
Cream and black splatter ashtray with a flared lid.
Finished Piece
Marbled Wax Burner
Soft lilac and blue bubble glaze on a hand-built burner.
Finished Piece
Midnight Ashtray
Deep navy ashtray with a domed lid and starry crystal glaze.
Finished Piece
Speckled Pour Over
Coffee dripper in sky blue with green, navy and yellow flecks.
Finished Piece
Plum Speckle Bowl
Little bowl in deep plum with a crystal speckle glaze.
Finished Piece
Pine Forest Jar
Hand-painted treeline on a soft green ground.
Finished Piece
Rose Vase
Speckled navy cylinder loaded with sculpted blooms.
Finished Piece
Diving Duck Dish
Rippled blue incense holder with a tail-up duck.
Finished Piece
Diamond Rings
Marbled porcelain book page spreaders, one of a kind.
Finished Piece
Swan Dish
Matte black and glossy white, carved feather detail.
Finished Piece
Blossom Candle Holder
Speckled double holder crowned with hand-built flowers.
Finished Piece
Bumblebee Planter
Blue linework bee wreathed in sunflowers.
Work in Progress
Two Swallows Platter
Handled platter with a pair of swallows circling the centre.
Work in Progress
Leaping Hare Espresso Set
Pink clay cups & speckled saucers, hand-painted floral hares.
Half baked, fully fired
Every piece starts as clay on an evening studio slot, or on my kitchen table when I can't wait that long. Thrown, slab-built, pinched by hand, or poured into slip cast molds I've made myself. Nothing's a repeat, and nothing's meant to be.
Shapes wobble. Saucers speckle. Handles get pulled a bit too generously because that's just how it goes some nights.
The illustration is where it gets good. Designs start freehand or digital, depending on what they are, then get onto the pottery however suits them best — hand-painted, or through homemade underglaze stencils and other techniques.
The design process, illustrations, stencils, mold making, all of it, is documented (or will be) on Instagram. Follow along for the journey, not just the product.
Even the pieces that are "the same" aren't. Made by hand, one at a time, no two alike. That's the whole point.