Abigail Schama - Co-Founder
Having trained as a painter, Abigail has long treated the surface of clay as a surface for making marks and cultivating textures. Abigail is a patron of Camden Psychotherapy unit, the charity supported by the studio. Abigail co-founded The Mews Coachworks in 2018, a maker’s community of women where she also teaches.
Sarah Jameson - Co-Founder
Sarah is a creative seamstress. She has a background in fashion buying, and trend forecasting. Sarah is inspired by Sonia Delaunay and explores her love of colour and pattern through textiles. She sources vintage garments, and ethnic textiles, reworking them into contemporary pieces for fashion and home.
Ylana Roback - Studio Manager
Ylana started life as a potter in 2018. Her hand made ceramics are fully functional yet decorative, glazed in a quiet palette of blues and greens with occasional glints of real gold. Generous bowls and serving plates to grace a table and vases for bunches or single stems. Ylana keeps the wheels turning as studio manager.
Daphne Price - Teacher
Daphne is an extremely well respected potter and teacher. Daphne has been teaching our Tuesday night classes since the studio open and often holds one day throwing workshops for all experience levels.
Michael Laidley - Technician
Sporty Mike is everyones friend and our very important studio technician. Sporty Mike holds a BA in ceramics from Camberwell College of Art. Mike keeps us going at the studio with his huge breadth of technical knowledge of clay and glazes.
Claire Palmer - Teacher
Claire is a ceramic artist making abstract, conceptual sculptures. She crafts her one-off sculptures and vessels in stoneware and porcelain clays, using both throwing and handbuilding techniques. Oxides, engobes and glaze create subtle variations of colour and tone to reflect the narratives explored through the work.
Heidi Bishop
Heidi started her career as a fashion model, then attended what is now Morley College for ceramics. She is now working as a full-time ceramicist. Her delicate porcelain work is inspired by the intricacies of nature.
Charlotte Speechley
Charlotte is a photographer and creative who works in portraiture, videography, graphic design and events. She also works in music education at The Rhythm Studio Academy of Music.
Laura McCartney
Laura she grew up in the North East of England. In 2018 she spent 3 months working in Mashiko, Japan. Both places have influenced her work a great deal. Much of her work is about damage and what it means to be damaged. She is also interested in collaboration and giving over part of the making process to the materials.
Nicole Douglas-Morris
Nicole is a British-Venezuelan potter, working mainly through hand-building. Her designs reference pre-Colombian utilitarian forms and and take inspiration from 20th century biomorphic artists such as Jean Arp.
Liz Unna
Liz is an award-winning commercials and documentary director, with a focus on work that honour’s women and their stories. Whether the topic is war reportage or self-care, she elicits emotive and authentic performances.