Since we spend most of our time making pots in the hope of selling them somewhere, sometime, it was a pleasant surprise this year to be commissioned by the British Museum to make some plates to celebrate the Bayeux Tapestry Exhibition.
These were ready for the opening and within a couple of weeks
we received another order and the question when could it be done by? Visions of turning the pottery into a production line for making these plates began to haunt me, but Kerry’s return from a week’s holiday bought sanity with it. We needed time.
Time for pots need to dry, time for kilns to cool, time for every process, time to work with care. Was this a limited edition? Yes, by the way we work.
It struck me as a nice coincidence that we find ourselves making these plates no more than 5 miles from the place where the invading Normans landed – in Pevensey that September 1066.
You can still see the castle they built and down the road, the potters making those plates will be pleased to see you.
East Dean. 11th October 2026.