This week, whilst I’ve been waiting for my baby to arrive (still waiting, luckily us potters are well versed in the art of patience), I’ve spent the time photographing a selection of pieces from our latest gas firing. We’re so proud of this body of work, it’s what we’ve been working hard to develop for the past few years.

We’re so pleased to be taking part in the Yorkshire Artspace Maker Showcase at the YSP from 15 April – 6 October 2024.

Pots for Palestone. All donations will support Atfaluna Society and Sulafa Embroidery Centre, who among a handful of grassroots organisations are distributing aid in their communities in the central and southern areas of the Gaza Strip.

On Sunday we unloaded the gas kiln after our firing on Friday. What a delight! Milky blue chuns, apple celadons and pale greys with lots of speckles and dramatic iron brushwork. This is quite a playful collection of work. Many pieces from this firing will be for sale online next Wednesday 17th May at 19:00 (UK time).

This month’s journal is not as practical as usual, mainly because we’ve been out of the studio for much of the time - we’ve been in beautiful Devon for the Bovey Tracey Craft Festival and also attended the Ceramics Fair at The Hepworth Wakefield.

May is the first month in our financial year and so there has been an element of introspection - analysing our finances from last year, our work and general life as a whole these past 12 months. We’re celebrating our 8th birthday as Pottery West which is quite an achievement. But even though we’ve been spinning that wheel, firing those kilns, making our livings doing this for almost a decade, it is surprising how much there is to learn. Nothing stays still.