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Everything is dishwasher and microwave safe, except for the handmade cake stands.

All the handmade pottery is made by Linda in her studio in west London. All the manufactured pottery is made to Linda's designs.

The porcelain clay is mixed in Stoke-on-Trent. It is fired to a high temperature in electric kilns and resists chipping or cracking.
The glazes are made in the studio and contain no lead or cadmium.
Glaze materials: feldspar, quartz, kaolin, calcium carbonate, dolomite, and borax frit from CTM potters supplies. Colourants: small amounts of rutile, copper oxide, nickel oxide, cobalt oxide, and tin oxide.

Exhibitions
  • Sarah Wiseman Gallery
  • Yorkshire Sculpture Park x Design Nation MADE showcase
Open studios
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Past exhibitions
  • Critical Clay, Form Gallery
  • Design Nation Our Journey at The Hub
  • Fresh Air Sculpture
  • Oeiras Ceramic Art
  • On Air at Ceramic Art London
  • Pathways Art Trail
  • Plates with Purpose, Messums West
  • Stone Lane Sculpture
  • The Future of Craft
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  • Leafwild Cafe
  • Luca
  • Royal Albert Hall Café Bar
  • Scarlet Hotel
  • The Clove Club
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  • Goldfinger Design
  • Masham Gallery
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  • Rye Art Gallery
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Linda Bloomfield

@lindathepotter

Potter and author of Contemporary Tableware, #SpecialEffectGlazes, #ColourinGlazes, #ScienceforPotters Making functional ceramics, inspired by lichens
  • We finished our 150km Wales coast path walk for this year at Pwllheli on the Llŷn peninsula. We’re staying just round the corner from @keithbrymerjones’ Capel Salem
    9 hours ago
  • Porthmadog to Criccieth at the start of the Llyn peninsula in North Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
    1 day ago
  • Lovely walk from Harlech to Porthmadog with a glimpse of Portmeirion from across the estuary
    3 days ago
  • A rainy day walk from Barmouth to Harlech along some lovely beaches
    4 days ago
  • Up over the hills today to Barmouth. There were a lot of dry stone walls and ruined stone farm buildings with the mountains of Snowdonia/Eryri in the distance
    5 days ago
  • Wales coast path along the beach from Aberdovey
    6 days ago
  • Back on the Wales Coast Path in Machynlleth
    1 week ago
  • Today I packed the kiln for the biscuit firing but I don’t think I’ll turn it on until the heatwave in London is over. It’s around 36°C outside and the kiln controller electronics don’t like to be hotter than 40°C.
    1 week ago
  • I’m fascinated by glaze recipes and interested to find out where they originated. I have been researching a copper turquoise barium glaze made by Emmanuel Cooper. He called it Robert Fournier turquoise. I found the recipe published in Fournier’s 1973 Illustrated Dictionary of Practical Pottery under Turquoise glaze: Nepheline syenite 56 Barium carbonate 25 (I used strontium carbonate) Ball clay 6 Flint 7 + Copper carbonate 3 Lucie Rie used a similar matt turquoise glaze which she called Leo. This is similar to Otto and Vivika Heino’s copper blue which contains 2% lithium carbonate and, with the addition of 2% copper carbonate and 5% titanium dioxide becomes Pete Pinnell’s Weathered Bronze. So you can see that glaze recipes get passed down and adjusted on the way, often changing names. I just call it Barium turquoise satin matt. The colour is similar whether you use strontium or barium. You can lower the firing temperature from cone 8 to cone 6 by adding 5% borax frit instead of lithium. It’s not particularly food safe. “What you give away you have forever; what you keep to yourself, you lose." (Vivika Heino) Photo by @sarahwisemangallery
    2 weeks ago
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We finished our 150km Wales coast path walk for this year at Pwllheli on the Llŷn peninsula. We’re staying just round the corner from @keithbrymerjones’ Capel Salem
We finished our 150km Wales coast path walk for this year at Pwllheli on the Llŷn peninsula. We’re staying just round the corner from @keithbrymerjones’ Capel Salem
We finished our 150km Wales coast path walk for this year at Pwllheli on the Llŷn peninsula. We’re staying just round the corner from @keithbrymerjones’ Capel Salem
We finished our 150km Wales coast path walk for this year at Pwllheli on the Llŷn peninsula. We’re staying just round the corner from @keithbrymerjones’ Capel Salem
We finished our 150km Wales coast path walk for this year at Pwllheli on the Llŷn peninsula. We’re staying just round the corner from @keithbrymerjones’ Capel Salem
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We finished our 150km Wales coast path walk for this year at Pwllheli on the Llŷn peninsula. We’re staying just round the corner from @keithbrymerjones’ Capel Salem
9 hours ago
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Porthmadog to Criccieth at the start of the Llyn peninsula in North Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Porthmadog to Criccieth at the start of the Llyn peninsula in North Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Porthmadog to Criccieth at the start of the Llyn peninsula in North Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Porthmadog to Criccieth at the start of the Llyn peninsula in North Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Porthmadog to Criccieth at the start of the Llyn peninsula in North Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Porthmadog to Criccieth at the start of the Llyn peninsula in North Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Porthmadog to Criccieth at the start of the Llyn peninsula in North Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
1 day ago
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Lovely walk from Harlech to Porthmadog with a glimpse of Portmeirion from across the estuary
Lovely walk from Harlech to Porthmadog with a glimpse of Portmeirion from across the estuary
Lovely walk from Harlech to Porthmadog with a glimpse of Portmeirion from across the estuary
Lovely walk from Harlech to Porthmadog with a glimpse of Portmeirion from across the estuary
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Lovely walk from Harlech to Porthmadog with a glimpse of Portmeirion from across the estuary
3 days ago
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A rainy day walk from Barmouth to Harlech along some lovely beaches
A rainy day walk from Barmouth to Harlech along some lovely beaches
A rainy day walk from Barmouth to Harlech along some lovely beaches
A rainy day walk from Barmouth to Harlech along some lovely beaches
A rainy day walk from Barmouth to Harlech along some lovely beaches
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A rainy day walk from Barmouth to Harlech along some lovely beaches
4 days ago
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4/9
Up over the hills today to Barmouth. There were a lot of dry stone walls and ruined stone farm buildings with the mountains of Snowdonia/Eryri in the distance
Up over the hills today to Barmouth. There were a lot of dry stone walls and ruined stone farm buildings with the mountains of Snowdonia/Eryri in the distance
Up over the hills today to Barmouth. There were a lot of dry stone walls and ruined stone farm buildings with the mountains of Snowdonia/Eryri in the distance
Up over the hills today to Barmouth. There were a lot of dry stone walls and ruined stone farm buildings with the mountains of Snowdonia/Eryri in the distance
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Up over the hills today to Barmouth. There were a lot of dry stone walls and ruined stone farm buildings with the mountains of Snowdonia/Eryri in the distance
5 days ago
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Wales coast path along the beach from Aberdovey
Wales coast path along the beach from Aberdovey
Wales coast path along the beach from Aberdovey
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Wales coast path along the beach from Aberdovey
6 days ago
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Back on the Wales Coast Path in Machynlleth
Back on the Wales Coast Path in Machynlleth
Back on the Wales Coast Path in Machynlleth
Back on the Wales Coast Path in Machynlleth
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Back on the Wales Coast Path in Machynlleth
1 week ago
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Today I packed the kiln for the biscuit firing but I don’t think I’ll turn it on until the heatwave in London is over. It’s around 36°C outside and the kiln controller electronics don’t like to be hotter than 40°C.
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Today I packed the kiln for the biscuit firing but I don’t think I’ll turn it on until the heatwave in London is over. It’s around 36°C outside and the kiln controller electronics don’t like to be hotter than 40°C.
1 week ago
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8/9
I’m fascinated by glaze recipes and interested to find out where they originated. I have been researching a copper turquoise barium glaze made by Emmanuel Cooper. He called it Robert Fournier turquoise. I found the recipe published in Fournier’s 1973 Illustrated Dictionary of Practical Pottery under Turquoise glaze: Nepheline syenite 56 Barium carbonate 25 (I used strontium carbonate) Ball clay 6 Flint 7 + Copper carbonate 3 Lucie Rie used a similar matt turquoise glaze which she called Leo. This is similar to Otto and Vivika Heino’s copper blue which contains 2% lithium carbonate and, with the addition of 2% copper carbonate and 5% titanium dioxide becomes Pete Pinnell’s Weathered Bronze. So you can see that glaze recipes get passed down and adjusted on the way, often changing names. I just call it Barium turquoise satin matt. The colour is similar whether you use strontium or barium. You can lower the firing temperature from cone 8 to cone 6 by adding 5% borax frit instead of lithium. It’s not particularly food safe. “What you give away you have forever; what you keep to yourself, you lose." (Vivika Heino) Photo by @sarahwisemangallery
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I’m fascinated by glaze recipes and interested to find out where they originated. I have been researching a copper turquoise barium glaze made by Emmanuel Cooper. He called it Robert Fournier turquoise. I found the recipe published in Fournier’s 1973 Illustrated Dictionary of Practical Pottery under Turquoise glaze: Nepheline syenite 56 Barium carbonate 25 (I used strontium carbonate) Ball clay 6 Flint 7 + Copper carbonate 3 Lucie Rie used a similar matt turquoise glaze which she called Leo. This is similar to Otto and Vivika Heino’s copper blue which contains 2% lithium carbonate and, with the addition of 2% copper carbonate and 5% titanium dioxide becomes Pete Pinnell’s Weathered Bronze. So you can see that glaze recipes get passed down and adjusted on the way, often changing names. I just call it Barium turquoise satin matt. The colour is similar whether you use strontium or barium. You can lower the firing temperature from cone 8 to cone 6 by adding 5% borax frit instead of lithium. It’s not particularly food safe. “What you give away you have forever; what you keep to yourself, you lose." (Vivika Heino) Photo by @sarahwisemangallery
2 weeks ago
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