I love the excitement of opening the kiln after firing, the treasures and surprises from the experiments conducted every time! I'm so inspired by the beauty of nature all around as I work in the outside most days and enjoy finding fossils on the nearby Jurassic coast and plants around the farm and garden.

It all started when I was a small child making tiny bowls with clay scraped from behind the classroom. I returned to ceramics after a breakdown in my teens and it helped me recover. I bought my own potter's wheel and gas kiln in my late teens and worked as a sculptor in Dorset.

For many years there was no time or room to do pottery with 4 young kids until my youngest started school, I went back to pottery lessons and was asked to help teach the class. My 1st studio was a shed in the garden under the damson trees, where I taught pottery and made my own work.

I now live on a small farm in the beautiful Devon countryside where I work mostly outside. We have a few animals, bed and breakfast rooms and a holiday cottage. I hope to teach pottery when we have developed the barn where I work, if not outside! We are hoping run pottery retreats on the farm.


I love working from home, creating my own ceramics and sharing them with others! Etsy provides such an incredible opportunity to connect with people locally and around the world.

Find out more about the making process and new collections in the pipeline on my Facebook page, damsontreepottery on Instagram.
My shop here on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/damsontreepottery