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Billy Lloyd

Billy works from the studio of established ceramicist Julian Stair in south London where he designs and personally produces his collection. A range of mugs gently taper to the rim and come as a set of three which stack in decreasing sizes, or a single large or tall version. Billy has recently added matching jugs and a set of three bowls. The porcelain is naturally off-white, carrying minute flecks and imperfections inherent in the clay, along with the grooves made as he hand throws each piece on the wheel. Jugs from £16 to £46 Bowls from £14 to £28 Stacking mugs - set of 3 £

Magie Hollingworth

Paper Maché artist Magie Hollingworth recycles waste paper to make contemporary vessels and artworks. Magie Hollingworth celebrates paper in our throwaway society by "taking the forgotten and the discarded and elevating its status, re-connecting and cherishing. I'm a domestic archaeologist, a paper pirate, currently exploring shape, purpose and subversion."

I recycle paper waste by pulping disregarded material and producing a range of contemporary vessels and sculptural forms for interior spaces, inspired by primitive artefacts, archaeology and nature.

A limited palette of carefully selected neutral colour makes shape and surface quality paramount.
Black Himalayan Lokta paper spoons - £8 and £15

Nic Webb

Nic Webb graduated from Brighton College in 1994 with a degree in Fine Art. Since then he has worked as a painter and maker and is currently based in Camberwell, South East London within a community of artists and makers at Vanguard Court Studios.
I love to work with green wood (fresh living wood) because of its malleability. It can twist and move in the process of seasoning, creating wonderful natural surprises. It allows great freedom in my making and designs can evolve from the unique nature of every piece of wood I choose.

The woods I use come from many sources. I am particularly keen on British deciduous woods as I spent my childhood in Suffolk surrounded by woodland. I enjoy walking and use these trips to collect my wood from all over the UK. I have close working relationships with local tree surgeons from whom I receive timber from the many parks and gardens of London.

Hand carved spoons from £65 to £440

Robin Wood 
Robin Wood is an internationally respected wood worker specialising in use of local timbers and traditional techniques, but with a distinctive modern twist.

Using a foot-powered lathe, Robin turns stylish, but functional bowls and plates. His extensive research into the history of the craft led to publication of the definitive book on the history of the wooden bowl.

Inspired by Scandinavian techniques, Robin and his wife Nicola teach spoon carving with knives and axes. Robin also makes individually hand-crafted benches, stiles, bridges and other countryside furniture.
Hand turned dinner plates £87 charger £410

Ikuko Iwamoto

I make exquisite cups and other objects for a bizarre tea ceremony. They suggest the everyday, the ordinary, but are in fact extra-ordinary. They are the vehicle to make visible an invisible, microscopic world. A world of intricacy and detail, of mathematical pattern and organic chaos, of beauty and repulsion.
Sake cup £24 Teapot £235

Nicola Tassie

I work in thrown domestic ware, making a selected range of forms consisting of carafes, bottles, flat bottomed bowls and jugs. My ideas are centred on concerns about surface, and its relation to form, using restrained satin tin-glazes over regular incised grooves, inlay lines or crosshatchings. This is extended by combining matt and shiny surfaces, and an exploration of colour using poured slips.
Jugs from £140

Carina Ciscato
Carina’s spontaneous and fluid pots are the result of thoughtful deliberation. They are carefully conceived, the subtle and delicate marks gently applied, the pots distorted and altered. This gives the feel that their loose and rhythmic forms appear spontaneously on the wheel, but far from it - each pot is totally unique with its own personality which can’t be reproduced, however it does belong to a family of pots that share similar characteristics.

The material Carina uses – porcelain, is also critical to her work, as the delicate, fraying and torn edges are exploring the limits of the material when thrown. Marks made by the making process are intentionally left to emphasize the pots tactile qualities, and honesty. There are no secrets with her work, but mystery in plenty.

Carina wants to create objects that can stand alone, that don’t need to be used but ask to be, and want to be touched and handled.- “They are perfectly imperfect”
Pair of salt and pepper dishes £60 Set of seven bowls £350