Studio Potter -  Hayle, Cornwall

Delan Cookson's current work comprises a range of individually thrown porcelain bottles, bowls and vases. The shapes are loosely based on classic forms, each one spawning infinite variations. These pots are sprayed in a silky blue and turquoise, copper based glaze. His workshop overlooks the Hayle estuary in Cornwall, which is a constant inspiration.

Ceramic Artist - Totnes, Devon

Sonje Hibbert's ceramics are influenced by extensive living and travelling abroad. Working with issues and concerns of the contemporary world, her current figurative ceramic work fuses a fascination of Eastern and African cultures with more traditional Western European styles. The sensual and, at times, slightly erotically charged sculptures, whilst being tactile and often humorous, on a more serious note attempt to portray the clich?at surround the Western perceptions of the female form of both present and Victorian times. The ongoing nostalgia for Victoriana is also mirrored in the large decorative ceramic jugs that Sonje makes. They present a merging of styles influenced by a love of textiles and a culturally loaded childhood in Hong Kong. The clay sculpting utilises plaster moulds with press moulding or slip casting. A variety of finishes are used including porcelain slips, decal transfers, smoke firing and raku.

Ceramic Artist - Holsworthy, Devon

Nicky May's first career was in international development, working in Papua New Guinea, Africa and Asia with VSO and Oxfam. She turned seriously to painting in 1994, and had work shown in Oxford and London. Nicky fell in love with ceramics in 1999, and studied at Sunningwell School of Art and the Royal Forest of Dean College. She now works from her workshop in Holsworthy, Devon. Her work is hand-built in coloured stoneware and fired to high temperatures. Each piece is informed by a feeling for curves, unique and frost-resistant.

Ceramic Artist - Bodmin, Cornwall

Jenny Beavan's work is an exploration into material and place observing processes of interdependence between water and geological change, seeking appropriate and simple construction methods, blending opposing materials, laminating, recycling, working rhythmically, sometimes decisively, sometimes tentatively merging imagination with memory in search of insights. Jenny Beavan works in local china clay and is based on the moors near Bodmin.

Ceramicist - Tiverton, Devon

Linda works in porcelain because of its translucency, using slipcasting and thrown techniques. The pieces are extensively pierced and sandblasted to allow sufficient light through the clay to produce functional tablelights. She also produces a range of double-walled pierced vases using stoneware. Every single piece is pierced free-hand without using a pattern or a template.

Ceramicist - Hayle, Cornwall

Julie Murdoch-George graduated at Falmouth College of Arts in 2005. She describes her work as feminine contemporary handmade multi-fired ceramics with emphasis on surface decoration. As well as producing a wide range of functional ware, Julie also makes a unique range of handmade ceramic jewellery. Julie won the CUC (Combined Universities in Cornwall) Creative Graduate Business Award 2008.

Studio Potter - Newlyn, Cornwall

Lincoln was first introduced to clay at the young age of 4. His father would bring clay home from the farm dam and fashion farm animals from it on the kitchen table. Since completing a degree in ceramic design in 1983, Lincoln has worked full time as a studio potter in a number of countries, tought, and worked on a number of archaeological ceramic excavations. He enjoys making work that is witty, fun and can be used every day, works that show individuality, the processes of their creation and reflect a sense of time and place. His work is very decorative and distinctive. His techniques give a raised, textured surface to the decoration. The exuberant use of colours or bold black and white designs extensively covering the surfaces of his work, add to the overall effect. The aesthetic elements are as important to him as the functional considerations, the two coming together to create a uniquely individual object.

Ceramic Artist - Plymouth, Devon

Sarah works with white earthenware, paperclay and occasionally stoneware. She has developed a personal process involving the use of a wide range of handcarved stamps that she has made over the years, as well as found objects. The forms are slab built with elements that are press moulded and hand formed. The frustation of using time consuming processes when working within a limited time frame led to the birth of the 'Stroppy Clock' - giving each clock its own unique personality. Sarah uses a combination of oxides and a multitude of glazes to achieve richly coloured surfaces contrasted by plain crackled ares. The pieces then undergo a final lustre firing.

Ceramic Artist - Exeter, Devon

Kati's vessels are made on the potter's wheel. The forms are simple and classical, inviting to touch and hold. The surface is unglazed. Repeated burnishing (rubbing) with polished stones creates the silky sheen and sensuous feel. In the final firing the pots are exposed to dense smoke created by burning sawdust and paper. The smoke is applied in a variety of ways to create spontaneous irregular patterns, contrasting random patches or deliberately "drawn" carbon lines. This is the most exciting stage. Kati can never be in complete control, only direct and influence the natural process of carbonisation. Each finished piece is a surprise, individual and impossible to replicate.

Studio potter - Chagford, Devon

Bruce's work is about simple forms imbued with a sense of spontaneity. 'Raku' as a technique allows him the opportunity to embrace that element of surprise, seeing and knowing then becomes as important as the making. Today 'Raku' is synonymous with a fast firing technique where the pots are taken from the fire red hot and placed in some sort of combustible material evoking all the spontaneity of the fire. Bruce produces two distinct styles of work, a range of high fired porcelain utilising carefully-controlled crazing glazes, and Raku incorporating the spontaneity of the fire.