Our team
Zoe holds a masters in Ceramics & Glass from the Royal College of Art and a PGCE from the Institute of education.
Prior to this studied for her BA in Ceramics at Staffordshire University. Zoe exhibited in Award at British Ceramics Biennial 2017, Taste Contemporary Miart & Art Genève.
www.zoelloyd.com
I make a mixture of functional and sculptural forms that are related to the body. I work with clay blended with my own and others failures made upon the pottery wheel. Once Leather hard I construct a bone like frame to support a soft withered skin, this is how I start to make my sculptures.
The abstract forms are imaginative externalisations of the human interior, sometimes suggestive of endoscopic lifeforms transmogrified into three dimensions, deconstructed and amalgamated, formed from dreams and visions of things not yet known.
Zoe Lloyd Director
Henry Shepherd Teacher
London based potter, potting since 1972 - I’m a retired architect and enjoy experimenting with form and constructing shapes on the pottery wheel.
For thirty five years I practiced as an architect on commercial, residential and bespoke projects. I have improved as a result of twenty years of evening classes at Nicola Tassie’s studio in Hoxton, making bigger vessels or complex forms by joining thrown elements. I joined Studio Pottery London for two years and became a member at Turning Earth in Highgate. I was drawn into making kiln fodder for the firings of the reconstructed Roman kiln in Highgate Woods
I’ve attended throwing masterclasses with Eric Landon (aka Tortus) held at SPL and started to teach at Columbia Road Clay in Hackney before joining Ceramics Classes London.
I am learning something new all the time and being challenged. At CCL I am pleased to offer something back to the warm and generous world of potters
Catrin Howell Teacher
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.
Casilda Oppe Teacher
Casilda Oppe is a Spanish sculptor and ceramist based in London. Oppe graduated in Fine Art and History of Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2024, and later took part in the Conditions Art Program. Her work has recently been exhibited at Veiled & Void, Xxijra Hii Gallery, London (2025); I Saw It All Around Me, Warbling Collective, London (2025); Half Heard, Half Seen, Conditions, London (2025); and South Open 3, Ohsh Projects, London (2025).
My work stems from the intersection of drawing and clay. For me, ceramics is an instinctive language, an initial impulse from which everything begins to take shape.