About the studio
I'm Nadia. I make the pots.
I grew up in Bridgwater and studied printmaking at Cardiff, which taught me to love a repeated mark and a limited palette — two things that still run through everything I make. Clay came later, at an evening class I took to get out of a flat with no natural light. Within a year I'd given up the etching press.
In 2017 I rented a cold corner of the old Baily's glove factory on Merchants Barton in Frome. The first wheel was secondhand from a school in Trowbridge and still has their inventory sticker on the splash pan. I sold my first pieces — wonky, over-glazed, entirely loved by me — from a folding table at the Frome Independent street market that September.
These days the studio is warmer, the shelves are fuller, and I'm joined two days a week by Priya, who came through the same evening class I did. It's still a small operation. I throw everything on the shop shelves myself, mix all the glazes from raw materials, and know every piece by the time it's packed.
What I believe about pots
They should be used. Nothing I make is too precious for the dishwasher or the school-run chaos of a Tuesday morning. If a mug isn't nice to drink from, the glaze doesn't matter.
The hand should show. I leave throwing rings, trim marks and the odd finger-drag where they fall. Machine-made perfection is available cheaply elsewhere and it's not what you're here for.
Local where possible. Clay from a supplier in Stoke, oak lids from Tom next door, linen from a mill in Northern Ireland, indigo from a grower in Norfolk. The supply chain fits on a postcard.
Want to see it happen? The studio is open the first Sunday of every month, 11am–4pm, and I run two-person wheel days through the spring.
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