My handbuilt porcelain lamps are made by mixing paper pulp and porcelain clay. In the firing process the paper burns out leaving a delicate, translucent structure; which suffuses any room with a warm glow. I make these lamps in various different sizes and can work to commission.

Qualifications
1996: B. A. (Hons.) 3D Design Ceramics at Bath College of Higher Education.
1996: Business-planning Training Course with Barfield Enterprise Training.
1996: Attended a 'Letting Go' course run by the potter Sandy Brown, at her house in Devon.
2000: Developing Professional Practise Course at Cockpit Studios.

Memberships
London Potters
Hidden Art
Cockpit Arts studio

Exhibitions
Nov - Jan 2005: 'White Christmas', Bilston Craft Gallery, Bilston, West Midlands, WV14
25th - 28th Nov 2004: Cockpit Arts Open weekend, Northington Street, WC1N
23rd - 26th Sept 2004: 100% Design, Earls Court 2, London
17th - 19th Sept 2004: Ceramics in the City 3, Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road
Jan - Feb 2004: 'Travelling Light', The Exhibition Centre, St Edward's School, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 7NN
Nov 03 - Jan 04: Christmas Exhibition, The Rostra Gallery, 5 George Street, Bath BA1
Oct 03 - Feb 04: Christmas exhibition, The Jelly Leg'd Chicken, The Riverside, Reading.
18th - 22nd October 2003: Habiter, Jardin de Tuileries, Paris 75001.
6 - 8th June 2003: Ceramics in the City, Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, London E2.

Commissions
Ongoing: Various private collections
2000: Ceramic Light Boxes for a photographer
1999: Fifty piece dinner service.
Summer 1998: Artist in residence at Ardess Craft Centre, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

Prizes
Arts For Everyone Express grant. Funded by the Arts Council of England.
2004: Crafts Council Bursary to show at 100% Design.

Press coverage
Jan 2005: Deco Design, Information pour les magasins de l'habitat
Dec 2004: Egg, Taiwan
1st Oct 2004: The Times, Bricks and Mortar
23rd Sept 2004: Avenues, North West Edition
15th Sept 2004: Independant, Property Section
11th Sept 2004: Telegraph Magazine
February/March 2004: London Potters Magazine
April 2003: Zurban, Paris
July 2003: House and Garden Magazine
June 2002: Elle Decoration.

Outlets
Lipp, 118a Holland Park Avenue, London W11 4UA
Frivoli, 7a Devonshire Road, Chiswick W4
The Collection, 33 Rue Piotou, Paris 75003
Hot Ice, 272 Hackney Road, London E2
Aram Prior, 40 Trafalgar Street, Brighton, BN1 4ED
Fowey Pottery, 10a Passage Street, Fowey, Cornwall, Pl23 1DE
Eske, Sofiesgate 16, 0170 Oslo, Norway
Red Biddy Gallery, 7 Kings Road, Shalford, Surrey, GU4
Hub, Navigation Wharf, Carre Street, Sleaford, Lincolnshire NG34 7TW
The Harley Gallery, Wellbeck Nottinghamshire
Old Courthouse Gallery, Contemporary Art, Ambleside, Cumbria  

Close up of large porcelain lamp Photo © Rob Aitchison
This large lamp has been inlaid with rice and is approximately 42cm high by 19cm wide.
£120 each

Small porcelain lamp Photo © Rob Aitchison
This small lamp has had small circles impressed into the surface and is approximately 20cm high by 19cm wide.
£80 each

Large and small porcelain lamps Photo © Rob Aitchison
Left to right: This large lamp is inlaid with pasta and gives a view from the back:
This small lamp is plain and approximately 20cm high by 19cm wide: This large lamp is inlaid with porridge creating the flecked surface.
Large: £120 each 42 x 19cm; Small: £80 each 20 x 19cm

Large porcelain lamp Photo © Rob Aitchison
This large lamp has been inlaid with spaghetti creating the lineal pattern on the surface. It is approximately 43cm high by 19cm wide.
£120 each

Large pendant spaghetti shade.
Large porcelain pendant shade, inlayed with spaghetti.
44cm x16cm, £120.00, 2003, Photographer: Liz Emtage

Detail of wide spaghetti and aqua lavender lamps.
Detail shot of large lamp inlayed with wide spaghetti and aqua large lamp inlayed with lavender.
47cm x 16cm, £195.00, 2003, Photographer: Liz Emtage

Group of large lamps
Left to right; Detail of extra large lamp inlayed with grasses, large moon lamp (inlayed with circles), extra large red star lamp (inlayed with star pasta), large aqua lamp inlayed with lavender.
Extra large lamps: 54 x 20cm, £260, Large lamps: 47 x 16cm, £195, 2003, Photographer: liz Emtage