Christmas Exhibition
2025
Our Christmas 2025 Exhibition features artists from across the United Kingdom, delivering Ceramics, stained glass and jewellery.
Contact us directly if you would like to find out more about our artists featured below or purchase one of their pieces.
Catrin Davies
Catrin visited Chartres sometime in her late twenties and fell for the wondrous windows of the cathedral. She learnt later of the spiritual significance of medieval glazing. The word of God depicted in glass - the light passing through the glass to the body of the building illuminating the people within, and entering their consciousness.
The windows acting as a veil between the known and the unknown.
Penny Warren
Penny describes the process for her work as very hands on and low tech. She starts with a sheet of matt pre-anodised aluminium and then applies ink to its surface with either a paint brush in a wash effect or using various textured and patterned surfaces.
Some pieces she then dip dyes in another colour. When the surface is dry, Penny seals the colour in by immersing the metal in boiling water so that the porous anodised surface closes up keeping the colour permanently trapped inside.
Jason Braham
Jason’s work is fired to stoneware temperature, until recently without preliminary (“bisque”) firing, and glazed by throwing salt into the fireboxes at around 1260 degrees Fahrenheit - a method which was invented (or discovered) in the Rhineland in the middle ages and copied by English potteries, notably at Fulham, in the seventeenth century.
A couple of years ago he built a second kiln for conventionally glazed ware, which benefitted from a bisque firing.
Early salt-glazed pots and the traditional country pottery of Europe are inspirations to Jason
Pauline Zelinski
Pauline has always loved pattern and colour and use this as inspiration for her work.
All pieces are hand made using a white earthenware clay. The design is then hand painted with underglaze colours and finally given a transparent glaze. Once fired the full vibrancy of the colours underneath is revealed.
Pauline’s inspiration comes from many sources, predominately forms and patterns in nature.
