About

Lucy spent twenty years making pots on a Leach kick wheel in a garden shed, and firing them in an old kiln, collecting studio pottery and second-hand pottery books for inspiration. During this time she studied and taught adults in community settings. Lucy refined her craft by studying hand-building, glaze technology and wheel-throwing at St Faith’s in Maidstone, Morley College in London, and at the Leach Pottery Adult Learning Programme. After being granted a sabbatical from her job at the University of Kent about ten years ago, she was able to set up her own studio and since then she has made wheel-thrown stoneware pottery for kitchen and table use for a wide variety of wholesale and private clients, including Toast, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Turner Contemporary, Newlyn Art Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park amongst others. She has shown at many ceramic fairs including Potfest, York Ceramics Fair, Celebrating Ceramics at Waterperry Gardens, and more. She is a visiting tutor at the Leach pottery, St Ives.

Simple wheel-thrown forms pay careful attention to functionality and yet they have a sculptural element. This is created through placing or nesting, subtle or pronounced throwing rings, and glaze, applied or left bare. Her myriad of hand-made glazes explores a formal approach to colour. Both oxidized and reduction firings are employed to create a gentle palette of soft neutral glazes with playful pops of colour.

Currently, Lucy is producing work to celebrate the material she works with, using iron-rich groggy clay, a lighter smoother body and fine porcelain to different effects. Glazes made from raw base materials such as feldspar, flint and iron oxide are pushed to their limits using different firing atmospheres: both oxidised and reduced to contrast the results. The energy of these elements and compounds, and of the techniques used to fashion them into something useable, is hopefully visible in the final pieces.

In 2017, I was delighted to appear in beautiful online magazine, Faversham Life. You can read more about my work and see pictures of the studio. Shortly after this my studio was photographed by Monday Club for their shelfscape series. During the summer of 2020, my work also appeared in the Toast magazine, which you can also read online. I do hope you enjoy the articles.