Catherine and Matt West work together under their studio name, Pottery West, creating wheel-thrown in stoneware fired both in reduction and oxidation out of their Yorkshire studio.

We draw on our previous experience in design and architecture, making subtle, meticulously detailed and simple wheel-thrown forms often used in a functional context. There is an interplay and tension between perfection and consistency and the looser more poetic quality of the human touch in craft.

Our pots often contain facets, carefully calculated crystalline or layered glazes or specific firing processes which add a sense of narrative and poetry.

We aim for our pots to be a quiet but confident celebration of detail, function and the poetics of making.

Our book ‘Designing and Making Tableware at The Wheel’ was published in 2024.