Charming Cheshire Ceramics
handmade products
By training I’m an engineering scientist. I’ve a PhD in physics so I guess you can say that my creativity started down the scientific route. I’ve always loved making, creating and figuring out how things work. I play the cello and have always had some craft project on the go; knitting, home furnishing – even house rewiring!
These have only ever been hobbies though until five years ago I started a night class at Mid Cheshire College, looking for something to help me relax from a demanding job. I’d put all my work issues to rights in my head as I worked with clay. I fell in love with clay the minute I got hold of it and was totally hooked. Each day there is something new to learn or try; it’s like driving a new car every day. And throwing on the wheel is so much harder than I thought it would be. I like a challenge.
When the awful news came that our Mid Cheshire college and its lovely ceramics studio was closing all the class were gutted. Rather than give up, a few of us got together and rented space in a local farm to set up our own studio. Things have snowballed since then. Our group decided to run workshops and classes to raise funds to pay for materials and improvements to the studio. Just one year on we now have waiting lists for our six-week courses. I teach a weekly evening class and Saturday workshops. This was never really planned, it’s evolved naturally.