This is where I am now!
Lindy had two careers and a family before finding ceramics. Opening her first studio over 25 years ago and teaching pottery for as many. Downsizing during Covid to a small studio at home, too small to hold classes, allowed Lindy time to concentrate on her creative journey as a potter and to develop her range of coloured Porcelain landscape vessels and also to develope a homeware collection for sale online and now in the shop in London SW14.
Lindy opened the new Sheen Pottery at 263 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS in February 2023. It consists of a Ceramics Gallery and Shop and a Teaching Studio. Lindy wants to share her passion of clay with you at a new Sheen Pottery Open Access Studio, with classes and courses for Adults and Children, running throughout the year. For all the information please go to this link: CLASSES
The new Sheen Pottery Studio on the high Street is bringing a creative hub for the community to enjoy, to experience the delights of making in clay and to bring ceramics to the attention of a wider audience.
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Background
Lindy grew up in rural Wales and in the Scottish Borders. With a creative mother they were always making; clothes, cushions, curtains. They baked, sewed, knitted, painted and decorated and made everything they needed whilst growing up. Lindy developed a love of making by hand and went on to study Textile Design at Hereford Art College, she made her own clothes - until she discovered Levi Jeans! Moving to London at 19, Lindy was a catwalk model, waitress and then became very involved at The Chelsea Arts Club. Later another career in Interior design in the 80s putting together colour schemes, fabrics, wallpapers, rugs and furnishings for grand houses around the world. Colour, pattern and texture interest and inspire her. Lindy says: “colour makes me happy. My glazes are jewel-like and designed to make you smile”
Influences
Lindy’s early work is influenced by the great studio potters; Leach, Hamada, Rie. “I have learnt so many different techniques from some of the best contemporary makers today including David and Margaret Frith, Phil Rogers, Takashi Yasuda, Gareth Mason, Chris Keenan and Carina Ciscato and have been fortunate to have taken master classes with all of them” After a residential course with David and Margaret Frith at Brookhouse Pottery near Denbigh, North Wales, Lindy drove down the motorway with a car loaded full of pots, got home and said to her husband “Im going to be a Potter!” That was 25 years ago!