Our Staff
Jago Poynter
Jago received training as a potter and holds a degree in ceramics from Cardiff School of Art and Design. His contemporary ceramics have a strong focus on both sculptural and domestic items, with simplicity being a key element. Jago dedicates his attention to the shape, color, and existential qualities of each object, ensuring that they become distinct protagonists in any given setting. He functions as a designer, maker and creator, working across studios in London and Jingdezhen, China, where he has been honing his craft within the industry by creating a series of sculptural pieces using porcelain. His work is driven by form, texture, and more recently, colour.
Jessica Lambe
Jessica is an Australian ceramic artist based in London. She studied Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Art in London. Jessica uses both throwing and hand-building techniques to form sculptural vessels, fusing both art and function together.
Zoe Lloyd
Zoe Lloyd holds a Masters in Ceramics from the Royal College of Art and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from the Institute of Education. Her practice reflects in-betweenness, where un-controllable things happen. She makes intuitively and spontaneously with clay. This allows her to capture and express feelings of conflict and vulnerability, such as wading through the harsh reality of being both solitary and attempting to be courageous in the studio
Tair Almor
Tair is an artist, designer, and ceramicist. As an academic and researcher, she is driven by the interplay between design and political, environmental, and economic factors, and how they shape society and communities. Collaboration is at the heart of her work, as she enjoys sharing and exchanging ideas. Her work explores the intersection of traditional crafts with technology and industrial production.
Abi Lawrence
Abi Lawrence started working with ceramics as a teen and it has been a lifelong passion since then. Having studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art from 2013 to 2016, her passion for ceramics has grown from strength to strength.
Her current focus is hand-thrown and simply decorated pieces using the Japanese Neriage technique. This method of making is defined by marbling different clays together on the wheel. The pieces are then decorated very simply to showcase the simple beauty of the clay. Abi particularly loves the unpredictable nature of this technique, every piece is unique and the results vary widely from piece to piece, meaning every item is a one-of-a-kind work of art.
Amy Wiedmer
Amy is the youngest member of the team at Ceramics Classes London. She is passionate about introducing people to the wonders and the creative power of working with clay. Amy started off doing work experience with Zoe back in September 2020 and she is continuously learning new things about ceramics whilst teaching tasters and assisting with larger groups learning to throw.
Sara Zarghami
Sara is an ambitious young woman from Iran. She is a self trained potter and project coordinator.
As She majored in psychology, she found the throwing wheel as a therapy that can help individuals to transfer their negative feelings, stress or angers to their hands and make beautiful pottery. She believes that throwing helps individuals to be mindful and forget the stress of daily life.
As an Iranian, Sara is inspired by the anicient history of her country. She makes functional art pieces that are all 1 of 1 and unique.
Lisa Schwartz
Lisa has been exploring the properties of clay for over 20 years. She is largely self taught and has found the meditative and therapeutic lure of clay to continually draw her back to the studio.
Lisa has spent most of her professional career teaching social-emotional and positive behaviour skills to young children and families. She now enjoys sharing the tactile pleasures of clay work with learners of all abilities, celebrating the many different, creative, and individual ways to express oneself through clay with her students and families. Lisa lives and teaches in Barnes and is well connected to the local community. She is Wednesday flexible and attentive to her community.
Katalina Caliendo
Katalina holds both a bachelor degree in ceramics from The University of Hertfordshire and a Masters in ceramics from the Royal College of Art. In 2019 she also became a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust Scholar. She both teaches ceramics and exhibits her sculptural pieces with galleries, taking part in events such as Collect Art Fair at Somerset House and London Design Fair. She considers clay a material for both creating aesthetically interesting art objects and for facilitating vital explorations of our relationship to and place within, the material and natural world.
Photo by Robert Chadwick
Catrin Howell
Catrin holds a Masters in Ceramics and Glass from the Royal College of Art and a BA (Hons) in Three Dimensional Design: Ceramics from the University of Wolverhampton. Some of her solo shows include The Scottish Gallery Edinburgh (Scotland), Galerie Terra Delft (Netherlands), Ruthin Craft Centre (Wales), among others. Catrin has been awarded the Creative Wales Award, the National Eisteddfod of Wales, the Crafts Council Setting Up Grant, and the Fletcher Challenge Ceramic Award.
Lucy Townsend
Lucy is a figurative sculptor specialising in portraiture and striving to represent a sense of the inner world of feeling that reflects who we truly are, the deeper soul qualities we imbue. After a degree in History of Art, she moved to Florence to train in classical sculpture, studying at the world renowned Florence Academy of Art and was then awarded a scholarship to the Sacred Art School. She has also studied fine art in London and St Petersburg. She won the Gordon Hulson Memorial Award from the Royal Society of British Artists (2016) and the Tiranti Prize for a young sculptor from the Chelsea Art Society (2017) along with the recognition of 'Highly Commended' (2018).
Aslı Canpolat
Aslı has a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Traditional Ceramic Art. After her study, which focused on pottery making, decoration and restoration, she has worked for different studios. She also has taught pottery making and painting to different age groups for many years. Her ceramics and illustrations, which are inspired by traditional ceramic ornaments, have been exhibited in Australia, Japan, Turkey and countries in Europe. She continuously conveys her experiences with clay and discovers new techniques to apply for her practice.