First Fire: Beltane

This first firing arrives at the threshold where spring tips into something rich, sensuous, and very much of the earth. Shoots pushing through, sap rising. 

Clay pulled between hands, all rough and textured: exactly how it is supposed to be. Gloss meeting grog, soft glaze pooling against craggy edges. Surfaces that ask to be touched, and lived with. 

Made in the UK, by a small, artist-led studio and shaped through an arts and crafts lineage, nothing here is identical. As such, some pieces still carry the marks of earth memory and moments of decision—where to smooth, where to leave, where to let the material speak back in its own strange language, of silt, mineral and earth.

From our hands in the soil and in the clay, to yours!

AF Clay

*Please note, all orders will be shipped after  the 26th of May. 

Mugs

For slow starts, or such like.

Each vessel is shaped individually, and with handles pulled by the hand itself, they sit slightly differently in each grip.

Glaze gathers where it wants to and edges are left quite exposed.  

There’s a weight to them. They are made to wrap your hands around in the quiet light of a milky dawn, or return to without thinking across the day.

Candleholders

Low, grounded forms, all made to hold the small flame like a Beltane fire.

There’s something of late spring in these pieces; the glow of a butter yellow pushing through like a daffodil. A quiet ceremony of wax softened onto glaze, rough-hewn—toasted, or otherwise

Each piece sits slightly askew as if weighted, perhaps; or a little off-centre and always held close to the table

For evenings that stretch out and melt like butter itself, with an open book on your lap in the dusky glow of late spring.