These Busy Hands
Catherine WestWriting about making hand-made pottery, slowly. Journalling my day-to-day observations from a small ceramics studio - Pottery West - which I run alongside my husband, Matt.
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Studio Journal. September 2025.
“All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.”
– Virginia Woolf
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Septem...
Three Things, none planned.
Three Things, none planned.
This week I gave up my Friday morning to talk to the children at my son’s primary school about my job as a potter (feel free to see my website here and buy a pot or three!). I prepared a powerpoint and rehearsed...
May's Studio Journal
My son came running into my bedroom yesterday morning full of excitement, “It is finally raining, I love the sound of it, and it smells so nice!”. The weather here in the UK has been so stable during the last few weeks with so much sunshine...
Three Nukas and a Pale Ash Celadon
Using wood ash is in glazes feels magical. Alchemical. Taking a by-product of something else (in our case, ash from our stove which kept us warm all last winter) and harnessing all the inherent minerals from within the ash to create somethi...
April's Studio Journal
I did start writing this post when it was still April. I was face-timing Matt, he in the studio trimming a pesky batch of mixing bowls (he was having a lot of trouble because in the heatwave the bowls hadn’t dried very evenly) and me at hom...
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Potter, writer, mother. One half of Pottery West, making pots in Sheffield. Writing about craft, the challenges (and joy) of running a pottery studio.
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