I’m a photographer by trade , an analogue one at heart and when my job went digital I missed the physical making of prints and started looking for something I could make with my hands again . Discovering hand building pots out of clay was like finding treasure in my garden , like it had always been there and I just had to dig it up . I live in the Cotswolds these days and have converted a lovely victorian lean to greenhouse into a dining room . It soon became a favourite place to work , write and create. And so it began a couple of years ago now that I made my little pots in this tranquil spot in my spare time . I’ve called my company Be Still because I have found this time of sitting , moulding clay in my hands to be such an absorbing and calming process that it creates a very still atmosphere , something that feels like a rare and special thing . I never plan a pot , it takes shape organically as my mind drifts so when I step back from the process I am often surprised how it has evolved, they seem to take on a personality of their own. .