Excerpts from our June 2022 Studio Journal

We’re very pleased to let you know that we will be having a very splendid Seconds and Samples sale on Saturday 25th June 2022 at Persistence Works Gallery, Brown Street, Sheffield. 11-5 (or until pots sell out!). We will also be joined by fellow potter, Carla Murdoch, who is bringing along some studio seconds too.

We thought some of you would be interested to learn more about Luna, our Studio Assistant, who joined us almost a year ago now and has since become such an integral part of the team. Here she talks a little about her journey into ceramics, the artists and ceramicists whose work she finds inspiring, and also her love of pastries. Eclectic!

“I didn’t sleep well, because of the moon I think”, was the first thing Lesley said to me when I visited her garden lab. A bitterly cold day, the lawn leading up to the self-built headquarters of Essence and Alchemy, was still dashed with frost and Jack, Lesley’s sheepdog seemed pleased to see me, providing more energy than Lesley or I could muster.

Ahead of tomorrow evening’s update which includes our pieces from the October firing at the Manor wood kiln, I thought i’d share a preview of the pieces we have for sale.

Now that we're in November and 'that-time-year' approaches, my diary has been opened, scribbled all over and some decisions and plans have been made - here are some dates for various webshop updates and our Open Studio Seconds Sale event...