Helen Butler - The Potters Print Shed

Helen Butler is an extremely talented ceramicist, located in Belper, Derbyshire.

Helen originally trained as a fashion designer eventually moving into education where she worked as an art technician along with teaching ceramics and printmaking.

She is now a full time potter and a printmaker.

Helen's influences are from nature and pattern. Working  in porcelain paper clay she loves the translucency that can be achieve with this medium. Seed-heads and other items are literally pressed into the clay to pick up the very delicate details. This is then coloured using oxides and stains to produce both functional and decorative pieces..

Muggins Pottery

What do Muggins Pottery make? It's quite simple really - they make pottery with faces on. Cats, dogs, mice, mugs, goblets, boxes, teapots, bowls. The whole range.

Muggins pride themselves in making and supplying high quality pottery to their own individual and unique designs, something they've been doing for over 30 years.

They don't mass-produce their pottery - every item and every face that has ever been made at Muggins is hand-made and unique.

Along with Sean, Dan makes everything by hand. One of the aspects that ensures the continuing quality and desirability is that just these two craftsmen create all the pieces produced at Muggins. Whilst this limits the availability of the pottery it means that it is their skills, knowledge and humour that will maintain the unique characteristics of their designs.

Gina Stalley Ceramics

Based in Sherwood, Nottingham, Gina makes a range of whimsical ceramic animals and figures based on characters she sees in the street or sometimes people she knows.... just don't tell them

As well as ceramic figurines, Gina creates beautifully bright coloured brooches and pendants