Examples of Previous Projects
I specialise in fine bone china - my teachers were the factory men and women of Stoke-on-Trent.
For ten years I've been making bespoke tableware for Heston Blumenthal's restaurant, The Fat Duck.
More recently I've found joy in press moulding stoneware tiles for a Soho restaurant. Or thinking about upholstery and how we live with furniture for SCP. I can either design to prototype stage. Or design and create a limited run in my workshop.
London Flower School
London Flower School contacted me to commission some ikebana vessels around the theme of kintsugi, my life, like many others, had been broken by the COVID-19 pandemic. The community and connections I had built through my work were shattered. Structural flaws in “the system” were exposed for all to see.
LFS Creative Director, Marzena Joseph, read my blog All That is Broken is Not Lost and recognised a message that could ease these global difficulties. When she invited me into her world of people, ideas, and connections, she also helped to ease my own. Lives are not made of ceramic, but they can still break. And, like ceramic, they can be mended.
The cracks and fissures that we are left with weave around our souls, dressing them in gold. Nothing that is truly unique will conform to superficial or conventional standards of beauty. Instead, what is unique becomes beautiful in a more sophisticated way. An authentic way that embraces the reality of lived experience.
VO1CE Pebble
Press moulded and polished black porcelain pebbles for Josie from VO1CE Pebble. We used a combination of 3D Printing and traditional pottery techniques to bring Imagination Factories drawing into life. The Pebble was made as a tool for her techniques in public speaking.
SCP
SCP is a manufacturer and retailer of modern design products. The company was founded in 1985 by Sheridan Coakley, an entrepreneur who has gained a reputation as a pioneer and advocate of modern design in Britain. They have produced Orlando Lounge Chair and two seater in their upholstery company based in Norfolk, Terracotta ranges produced by a Suffolk thrower, and Bone china lighting in Stoke-on-Trent.
state51
For this year's state51 branding, we were commissioned to turn their zodiac symbols (each made out of elements of the state51 coat of arms logo) into physical objects. We made the symbols from extruded black stoneware and porcelain with coloured slips and various glazes and oxide washes, including iron spangle.
Founded in 1824, the Vista Alegre Porcelain Factory was the first industrial unit dedicated to producing porcelain in Portugal. In 2016 they produced a set of our Rin and Stepped bowls for their Portugese factory to manufacture to supply the hospitality industry.
Rémy Martin and The Connaught Hotel
Rémy Martin enlisted ceramicist Reiko Kaneko for a project that celebrates savoir-faire and collaboration through a multidisciplinary approach. Launched during London Craft Week, ‘Flint’ is a new cocktail developed by The Connaught’s Director of Mixology, Agostino Perrone and the Connaught Bar Head of Mixology, Giorgio Bargiani, using Rémy Martin XO and served in a specially-created vessel by Kaneko.
69 Colebrook Row / Untitled Bar
The Bar with No Name (69 Colebrook Row) and Untitled is run by the legendary mixologist Tony Conigliaro. One of our first bespoke projects was an Oyster vessel for the Prairie Oyster cocktail for 69 Colebrook Row. When he opened Untitled in Dalston, we worked on a vagina inspired cocktail vessel for Ninfeo Cocktail.
The Fat Duck
Three Star Michelin Star Restaurant in Bray, UK. We’ve been collaborating on special projects since 2009. The briefs are always specific to their menu, with a real concern for detail and quality. It’s all about the experience and every aspect is fully thought out.
Takagi Caperan
Interior Design Practice based in London. The brief was to create sculptural interior ceramics for their hotel designs. We turned everyday mugs, vases, cups and bowls into characterful or intriguing pieces for their modern hotel interiors
Audemus Spirits
Based in Cognac, the distillery creates beautiful spirits. We have been working with them to add some special bottles to their lines since 2016
Paradise Soho/ Dan Preston
Bespoke tiles produced for a Sri Lankan restaurant in Soho, London - the interiors of which were designed by Dan Preston. The brief was to create bespoke tiles for Tropical Brutalism inspired interiors, particularly looking at Geoffrey Bawa a Sri Lankan Architect.
NEFF Flavour Enhancing Plates and Bowls
A project commissioned by NEFF Appliances, and brief set by Professor Charles Spence who experiments widely on how the colour, weight, feel of a vessel creates nuances in how flavours are perceived.
The Starter Plate - Inspired by the energy of the sea waves, this fine bone china plate is designed to intensify the taste of seafood based starters. Reminiscent of the sea world through the white and blue glazing and bearing a rough, fish scale-like texture, this plate heightens the perception of saltiness through its angular shape.
Main Dish Bowl - This angular, black stoneware bowl enhances the sensation of spiciness. The rough, sandpaper texture of the bowl heightens the taste of ginger, making it ideal for serving up dishes like Thai green curries.
Dessert Bowl - Inspired by the shape of a raspberry, this dessert bowl is designed to bring out the fruity flavor of desserts. The pink color boosts the perception of sweetness, whilst the outer, rounded, raspberry-like texture triggers associations with the fruit.
Bespoke Tile Murals
Tiles are hand glazed with layers of rich reactive glazes using a traditional Japanese rice hay brush. The tile murals can be customised to any theme and colour, while keeping the same spirit of expressive strokes and energy.
Whisk
A pop up dessert restaurant run by Randon Burns
Bringing Art to Care Homes
Conversations and talking have been proven to improve the decline of health in dementia patients. We helped an artist who set out to provide cups with words that would spark a memory, and hopefully a conversation with the residents of a home in Devon.
