Hand-sculpted magnets, brooches and trinkets in white stoneware,
painted bright.
I make small ceramic things designed to make people smile.
Magnets, brooches and trinkets, all hand-sculpted in white
stoneware in my home studio in Beaconsfield, then painted in
bright ceramic underglaze and glaze.
I’m drawn to the everyday. Breakfast on a plate. A glass
of something at the end of the day. A houseplant on a
windowsill, an animal asleep on the couch, the small
ordinary things that fill up most of a life.
There’s something I love about taking those moments and
turning them into a little ceramic object. They become a bit
more permanent that way, a bit more celebrated, and a bit
sillier than they had any right to be.
Figs. 1-4 · Brooches and pendants, painted by hand.
Most of life isn’t made of big occasions. It’s made
of toast and cups of tea and the small routines that carry you
through a week. Making tiny, cheerful versions of those things
feels like a quiet way of saying they matter, or at least that
they’re worth a smile.
I love working at this scale. A brooch fits in your palm. A
magnet lives on the fridge, glanced at a hundred times a week.
A trinket dish sits by the bed and quietly catches your earrings
at the end of the day.
They’re small enough to be a treat, small enough to be a
gift, and small enough that the joy of one doesn’t feel
like a big commitment.
Each piece is sculpted and painted by hand, one at a time,
which means no two are ever quite the same. A line wobbles a
little differently. A colour sits a touch brighter on one than
another. I like that. The small inconsistencies are part of
what makes a handmade thing feel handmade, and part of what
makes each piece feel like its own tiny character heading off
to live somewhere.
I want my work to be the sort of thing you spot on
someone’s jumper at the shops, or stuck to a friend’s
fridge, and find yourself grinning at without quite knowing why.
Cheerful, a bit silly, and made with a lot of care for the small
corners of someone’s day.
