Flora Fabris, Ceramicist - 2026
With ceramicist Flora Fabris, who is based in SE London, we are exploring the relationship between wood and clay through paired functional forms. The idea of the collaboration is that while the forms are paired by shape, they're not identical.
I collect the shavings from my work along with other discarded pieces of the same species, which I then pass to Flora who burns them to create wood ash for new glazes.
The work explores material transformation, shared forms, and the relationships between making, process, and use. It's a meeting of forms born from two materials and two practices.
The collaboration was launched at Craft Festival, Bovey Tracey in June 2026.
Susie Garner - Botanical Silversmith - 2026
A chance encounter at the Bovey Tracey Craft Festival in Devon in June 2026 led to the discovery that I lived very close to botanical silversmith Susie Garner. We got talking and realised we had a wonderful opportunity to collaborate.
The purpose of the collaboration was to design two vases to display Susie’s stunning silver flowers. After exploring a few different design ideas together, we settled on two distinctive vase styles.
As with all new designs, there was a little ‘trial and error’ before we settled on the design for the lime waxed Ash vase. The ebonised and lime waxed Oak vase was more straight forward. Both vases reflect my designs and how I exploit the natural properties of the wood by using a well documented ebonising technique used by furniture makers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The sterling silver four-flowered Cherry blossom branch and three-flowered Blackthorn blossom branch are in the lime waxed Ash bud vases and the Eucalyptus branch is in the ebonised and lime waxed Oak bud vase.
The collaboration was launched at the Festival of Crafts in Farnham, Surrey in October 2026.
