Cat's Ceramics: January 2014

Monday, 13 January 2014

Friday, 3 January 2014

2013 in Review

I'd like to wish you a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

This last year has been amazing!!
Personal wise we had some awfully sad news earlier in the year but things are getting better and gratefully, as a family we spent some lovely time all together and ended the year on a high note.

For Cat's Ceramics it has been my best year yet and I'm just so thankful to everybody that has helped make it so!

Without wanting to appear self indulgent I thought it might be nice to go over a few highlights and high points of the last year.
It can be difficult sometimes when you're working really hard to look at what you are achieving and see how far you are really getting.

In 2013 I gained an amazing 5 new stockists!

Cambridge Contemporary Crafts

Heart Gallery

Studio 61 Gallery

Maker's Boutique Cornwall

The Old Stores, Rydon

I took part in a whopping 24 events and exhibitions

Including: The Brighton Fishing Quarter Gallery

May Open Houses at Sixes & Sevens and Borderline Studios

Lewes Artwave at Driftwood Gardens and Stafford Road Artists

Weald & Downland Christmas Market

And my regular spot at the Maker's Boutique in Brighton

I visited one of my favourite places in the world and gained huge inspiration:

Cat's Ceramics ranges grew to include:

Tree Trunk Vases

Flower Bowls

Ginkgo Wears

The Butterfly Cups really came into there own this year as the biggest selling item in galleries

Online the Little Leaf Bowls sold more than any other with Teal Colour being the runaway favourite!

I am super proud to have my work included in the Southern Ceramics Group Summer Exhibition at Chichester Cathedral

I got to be part of a wonderful couple's most special day with 80 customised Plant Marker Wedding Favours!

And best of all I got to continue doing what I love -

creating art and people liking it!

Thank you to every single person who has helped me this year

x x x

Cat's Ceramics

I am a ceramic artist living in Sussex, England and I make decorative and functional ceramics by hand using handbuilding techniques of coiling, pinching, slabbing and hand modelling. I don't really like using fancy equipment or moulds as I want each piece to be unique and individual as much as it can be. To me ceramics and clay work has a special kind of intimacy unlike other creative forms and I believe you can feel the effort some one has taken to make a piece when you pick it up and touch it. It is like that energy has seeped into the very pores of the clay and has some how been captured within the firing process forever to stay within that piece