Our team
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.
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
Vesna Braith
Vesna is a London based artist and potter making handmade ceramics for everyday rituals.
By education she is an arts professor and graphic designer having studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Slovenia.
With almost a decade of experience in production ceramics for well established ceramicists Vesna is shaping her own vision of tactile clay poetry to help elevate the seemingly mundane into heartfelt daily pleasures.
Her work moves between playfully elegant wheel thrown pieces and geometric hand built functional objects flavoured with a rustic touch.
Mercedes Jaskolka
In her classes, Mercedes encourages students to embrace play and find joy in working with clay. She also aims to cultivate mindfulness through the act of creating, inviting her students to experience pottery as a meditative practice. By sharing her own journey, she demonstrates that anyone can learn and master a new skill at any stage of life.
Her ongoing projects and research explore the mindful and ancestral connections between yoga and pottery. Mercedes is passionate about decolonising ceramics and breaking down barriers to access in both the arts and wellness spaces, so that people from all backgrounds can experience the joy of working with clay.
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.
