About
“I aim for my ceramics to add joy and beauty to people’s daily lives. On the table, in the kitchen or on a mantlepiece, filled with food and drink or personal treasures. I strive for every one of my pieces to be well made: functional, durable and aesthetically pleasing. I make my pots with these intentions in mind - and hope you can feel them when you hold a finished item.”
Katrin makes all pieces herself, using traditional pottery techniques. They are designed to be bought and used either as individual pieces or as matching families. They are thrown and turned on the potter’s wheel. Pouring lips and handles are hand pulled. Their surfaces are finished with techniques using slip and/or glazes she develops herself.
Katrin continuously experiments with ceramic materials. She develops all elements that make up a collection, such as clay bodies, glazes and decorating slips. She often fires in an electric kiln but also has great passion for reduction firing methods in gas and wood kilns.
Katrin trained for two years (full time) in traditional wheel thrown production pottery techniques and studio pottery in Ireland at the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland’s renowned Ceramics Skills and Design Course. From 2018 to 2021 she lived, taught and made in London, and managed one of membership studios at The Kiln Rooms. Since October 2021 she moved to the Cotswolds where she works full time at Winchcombe Pottery.
Katrin is influenced by an early connection with nature and by making and mending as a child. From her first career as a social anthropologist and her time in Berlin, West Africa and London springs an interest in how people live their everyday life within wider socio-economic circumstances, and a fascination in how functional and ritual objects such as ceramic vessels feature in this. In 2015 she found clay as a material and a way of life that can bring together all these aspects that are important to her.