Hannah is a studio potter with a background in textiles and contemporary embroidery. Based in Manchester, both her work and personal life has been steeped in a rich textile heritage, this heavily influences her ceramics practice and is a key point of visual reference.
Hannah particularly enjoys forming her own tools and stamps to produce intricate surfaces and objects with a tactile quality. Hannah approaches a clay slab in a similar way to which she would a piece of fabric, often using techniques such as inlay to achieve unique patterns and textures.
Her pieces are produced in various stoneware and local iron rich clays, using traditional hand building techniques, manipulating slabs of clay to piece together various forms. Hannah enjoys a slow approach to her method of making, and her aim is to create treasured pieces that retain a subtle sense of the maker’s hand.
