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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.

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  • Sarah Wiseman Gallery
  • Yorkshire Sculpture Park x Design Nation MADE showcase
Open studios
  • Artists at Home
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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  • Frivoli
  • G&G Goodfellows
  • Masham Gallery
  • Sarah Wiseman Gallery
  • Studio Eleven
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Linda Bloomfield

@lindathepotter

Potter and author of Contemporary Tableware, #SpecialEffectGlazes, #ColourinGlazes, #ScienceforPotters Making functional ceramics, inspired by lichens
  • New packaging regulations have made it much more difficult to ship to customers in the EU. In recent years I’ve been making more orders for businesses here in the UK: tea ware for tea importers, tableware for restaurants and lighting for lighting designers. I find I prefer making wholesale orders as then I can spend more time in my studio, less time packing individual orders and less time exhibiting at fairs.
    3 days ago
  • The periodic table is an important feature in my books and glaze courses. For me, it explains glaze chemistry, metals and non metals, alkalis and acids, why fluxes melt glazes and why the transition metals oxides are coloured. It connects my first career as a scientist researching silicon and semiconductors with my second career as a potter and glaze book author using silica as the glassformer in clays and glazes. You can find it in my books Material Matters and Science for Potters. Photo by @eltornodesu at @clay_at_thefarnhampottery
    1 week ago
  • Matt glazes are my favourites. The first two are a calcium matt with rutile and tin for pink and copper oxide for turquoise. The next three are a magnesium matt with rutile, cobalt and rutile and a colour blend with copper, cobalt, nickel, rutile and chromium and combinations of those five colouring oxides. Matt glazes form during cooling in the kiln when excess magnesium, calcium, alumina and silica form tiny crystals on the surface. Research posted by @tim_thornton_ceramics has found that diopside (magnesium calcium silicate) crystals are more resistant to acid attack than wollastonite (calcium silicate) or anorthite (calcium aluminosilicate) crystals. I’m happy because magnesium matt glazes are my favourite ones that I use on my functional ware. Glaze tests made @clay_at_thefarnhampottery by Adam and @eltornodesu Fired to 1255°C in an electric kiln
    1 week ago
  • More glaze tests from the weekend workshop @clay_at_thefarnhampottery including crawl glazes, a calcium matt glaze and a magnesium crystalline matt glaze. The porcelain and stoneware glaze tests were fired to 1255°C in an electric kiln.
    2 weeks ago
  • Some fantastic results on our glaze workshop @thefarnhampottery We made glossy, crystalline, chun and matt glazes Thank you for all your help Alex @clay_at_thefarnhampottery
    2 weeks ago
  • Lovely day at @thefarnhampottery @clay_at_thefarnhampottery teaching a glaze workshop
    2 weeks ago
  • Thank you for the kind review @maribalsamawilson @london.potters “What sets this book apart is its ability to bridge two worlds that often feel separate: the tactile, intuitive world of the studio, and the precise, analytical world of materials science...this book provides answers always connected to the lived experience of studio practice.” The book is out now in the UK and comes out in the US on 29 September and in Australia on 1 December. You can order it from @bloomsburypublishing or @blackwellbooks who ship worldwide. The lustre ware ceramics pictured is by @athanatoselysia and @claudiaceramics
    2 weeks ago
  • Today is publication day in the UK for our book Material Matters, An Artist’s Guide to Understanding Ceramic Materials. Thank you to the team at @herbert.press and @525_design The glaze chapters of the book cover glaze materials, local materials, glaze chemistry, colourants, firing, defects and special effects. Thank you to @diagramsbyhenry for the clear diagrams. Image: variations of the 4321 glaze with left, whiting and right, eggshells @sigurlinaosuala
    2 weeks ago
  • Our book Material Matters, An Artist’s Guide to Understanding Ceramic Materials comes out tomorrow. There is a chapter on clay as liquid: slips, engobes, terra sigillata, making slips from local clays and Egyptian paste, a self-glazing clay body which leads us onto glazes. Work pictured, Dissolving Lines, slipcast stoneware, coloured engobes by @adi_avidani_ceramics Thank you to all the artists who contributed images
    2 weeks ago
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New packaging regulations have made it much more difficult to ship to customers in the EU. In recent years I’ve been making more orders for businesses here in the UK: tea ware for tea importers, tableware for restaurants and lighting for lighting designers. I find I prefer making wholesale orders as then I can spend more time in my studio, less time packing individual orders and less time exhibiting at fairs.
New packaging regulations have made it much more difficult to ship to customers in the EU. In recent years I’ve been making more orders for businesses here in the UK: tea ware for tea importers, tableware for restaurants and lighting for lighting designers. I find I prefer making wholesale orders as then I can spend more time in my studio, less time packing individual orders and less time exhibiting at fairs.
New packaging regulations have made it much more difficult to ship to customers in the EU. In recent years I’ve been making more orders for businesses here in the UK: tea ware for tea importers, tableware for restaurants and lighting for lighting designers. I find I prefer making wholesale orders as then I can spend more time in my studio, less time packing individual orders and less time exhibiting at fairs.
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New packaging regulations have made it much more difficult to ship to customers in the EU. In recent years I’ve been making more orders for businesses here in the UK: tea ware for tea importers, tableware for restaurants and lighting for lighting designers. I find I prefer making wholesale orders as then I can spend more time in my studio, less time packing individual orders and less time exhibiting at fairs.
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The periodic table is an important feature in my books and glaze courses. For me, it explains glaze chemistry, metals and non metals, alkalis and acids, why fluxes melt glazes and why the transition metals oxides are coloured. It connects my first career as a scientist researching silicon and semiconductors with my second career as a potter and glaze book author using silica as the glassformer in clays and glazes. You can find it in my books Material Matters and Science for Potters. Photo by @eltornodesu at @clay_at_thefarnhampottery
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The periodic table is an important feature in my books and glaze courses. For me, it explains glaze chemistry, metals and non metals, alkalis and acids, why fluxes melt glazes and why the transition metals oxides are coloured. It connects my first career as a scientist researching silicon and semiconductors with my second career as a potter and glaze book author using silica as the glassformer in clays and glazes. You can find it in my books Material Matters and Science for Potters. Photo by @eltornodesu at @clay_at_thefarnhampottery
1 week ago
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Matt glazes are my favourites. The first two are a calcium matt with rutile and tin for pink and copper oxide for turquoise. The next three are a magnesium matt with rutile, cobalt and rutile and a colour blend with copper, cobalt, nickel, rutile and chromium and combinations of those five colouring oxides. Matt glazes form during cooling in the kiln when excess magnesium, calcium, alumina and silica form tiny crystals on the surface. Research posted by @tim_thornton_ceramics has found that diopside (magnesium calcium silicate) crystals are more resistant to acid attack than wollastonite (calcium silicate) or anorthite (calcium aluminosilicate) crystals. I’m happy because magnesium matt glazes are my favourite ones that I use on my functional ware. Glaze tests made @clay_at_thefarnhampottery by Adam and @eltornodesu Fired to 1255°C in an electric kiln
Matt glazes are my favourites. The first two are a calcium matt with rutile and tin for pink and copper oxide for turquoise. The next three are a magnesium matt with rutile, cobalt and rutile and a colour blend with copper, cobalt, nickel, rutile and chromium and combinations of those five colouring oxides. Matt glazes form during cooling in the kiln when excess magnesium, calcium, alumina and silica form tiny crystals on the surface. Research posted by @tim_thornton_ceramics has found that diopside (magnesium calcium silicate) crystals are more resistant to acid attack than wollastonite (calcium silicate) or anorthite (calcium aluminosilicate) crystals. I’m happy because magnesium matt glazes are my favourite ones that I use on my functional ware. Glaze tests made @clay_at_thefarnhampottery by Adam and @eltornodesu Fired to 1255°C in an electric kiln
Matt glazes are my favourites. The first two are a calcium matt with rutile and tin for pink and copper oxide for turquoise. The next three are a magnesium matt with rutile, cobalt and rutile and a colour blend with copper, cobalt, nickel, rutile and chromium and combinations of those five colouring oxides. Matt glazes form during cooling in the kiln when excess magnesium, calcium, alumina and silica form tiny crystals on the surface. Research posted by @tim_thornton_ceramics has found that diopside (magnesium calcium silicate) crystals are more resistant to acid attack than wollastonite (calcium silicate) or anorthite (calcium aluminosilicate) crystals. I’m happy because magnesium matt glazes are my favourite ones that I use on my functional ware. Glaze tests made @clay_at_thefarnhampottery by Adam and @eltornodesu Fired to 1255°C in an electric kiln
Matt glazes are my favourites. The first two are a calcium matt with rutile and tin for pink and copper oxide for turquoise. The next three are a magnesium matt with rutile, cobalt and rutile and a colour blend with copper, cobalt, nickel, rutile and chromium and combinations of those five colouring oxides. Matt glazes form during cooling in the kiln when excess magnesium, calcium, alumina and silica form tiny crystals on the surface. Research posted by @tim_thornton_ceramics has found that diopside (magnesium calcium silicate) crystals are more resistant to acid attack than wollastonite (calcium silicate) or anorthite (calcium aluminosilicate) crystals. I’m happy because magnesium matt glazes are my favourite ones that I use on my functional ware. Glaze tests made @clay_at_thefarnhampottery by Adam and @eltornodesu Fired to 1255°C in an electric kiln
Matt glazes are my favourites. The first two are a calcium matt with rutile and tin for pink and copper oxide for turquoise. The next three are a magnesium matt with rutile, cobalt and rutile and a colour blend with copper, cobalt, nickel, rutile and chromium and combinations of those five colouring oxides. Matt glazes form during cooling in the kiln when excess magnesium, calcium, alumina and silica form tiny crystals on the surface. Research posted by @tim_thornton_ceramics has found that diopside (magnesium calcium silicate) crystals are more resistant to acid attack than wollastonite (calcium silicate) or anorthite (calcium aluminosilicate) crystals. I’m happy because magnesium matt glazes are my favourite ones that I use on my functional ware. Glaze tests made @clay_at_thefarnhampottery by Adam and @eltornodesu Fired to 1255°C in an electric kiln
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Matt glazes are my favourites. The first two are a calcium matt with rutile and tin for pink and copper oxide for turquoise. The next three are a magnesium matt with rutile, cobalt and rutile and a colour blend with copper, cobalt, nickel, rutile and chromium and combinations of those five colouring oxides. Matt glazes form during cooling in the kiln when excess magnesium, calcium, alumina and silica form tiny crystals on the surface. Research posted by @tim_thornton_ceramics has found that diopside (magnesium calcium silicate) crystals are more resistant to acid attack than wollastonite (calcium silicate) or anorthite (calcium aluminosilicate) crystals. I’m happy because magnesium matt glazes are my favourite ones that I use on my functional ware. Glaze tests made @clay_at_thefarnhampottery by Adam and @eltornodesu Fired to 1255°C in an electric kiln
1 week ago
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More glaze tests from the weekend workshop @clay_at_thefarnhampottery including crawl glazes, a calcium matt glaze and a magnesium crystalline matt glaze. The porcelain and stoneware glaze tests were fired to 1255°C in an electric kiln.
More glaze tests from the weekend workshop @clay_at_thefarnhampottery including crawl glazes, a calcium matt glaze and a magnesium crystalline matt glaze. The porcelain and stoneware glaze tests were fired to 1255°C in an electric kiln.
More glaze tests from the weekend workshop @clay_at_thefarnhampottery including crawl glazes, a calcium matt glaze and a magnesium crystalline matt glaze. The porcelain and stoneware glaze tests were fired to 1255°C in an electric kiln.
More glaze tests from the weekend workshop @clay_at_thefarnhampottery including crawl glazes, a calcium matt glaze and a magnesium crystalline matt glaze. The porcelain and stoneware glaze tests were fired to 1255°C in an electric kiln.
More glaze tests from the weekend workshop @clay_at_thefarnhampottery including crawl glazes, a calcium matt glaze and a magnesium crystalline matt glaze. The porcelain and stoneware glaze tests were fired to 1255°C in an electric kiln.
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More glaze tests from the weekend workshop @clay_at_thefarnhampottery including crawl glazes, a calcium matt glaze and a magnesium crystalline matt glaze. The porcelain and stoneware glaze tests were fired to 1255°C in an electric kiln.
2 weeks ago
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4/9
Some fantastic results on our glaze workshop @thefarnhampottery We made glossy, crystalline, chun and matt glazes Thank you for all your help Alex @clay_at_thefarnhampottery
Some fantastic results on our glaze workshop @thefarnhampottery We made glossy, crystalline, chun and matt glazes Thank you for all your help Alex @clay_at_thefarnhampottery
Some fantastic results on our glaze workshop @thefarnhampottery We made glossy, crystalline, chun and matt glazes Thank you for all your help Alex @clay_at_thefarnhampottery
Some fantastic results on our glaze workshop @thefarnhampottery We made glossy, crystalline, chun and matt glazes Thank you for all your help Alex @clay_at_thefarnhampottery
Some fantastic results on our glaze workshop @thefarnhampottery We made glossy, crystalline, chun and matt glazes Thank you for all your help Alex @clay_at_thefarnhampottery
Some fantastic results on our glaze workshop @thefarnhampottery We made glossy, crystalline, chun and matt glazes Thank you for all your help Alex @clay_at_thefarnhampottery
Some fantastic results on our glaze workshop @thefarnhampottery We made glossy, crystalline, chun and matt glazes Thank you for all your help Alex @clay_at_thefarnhampottery
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Some fantastic results on our glaze workshop @thefarnhampottery We made glossy, crystalline, chun and matt glazes Thank you for all your help Alex @clay_at_thefarnhampottery
2 weeks ago
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Lovely day at @thefarnhampottery @clay_at_thefarnhampottery teaching a glaze workshop
Lovely day at @thefarnhampottery @clay_at_thefarnhampottery teaching a glaze workshop
Lovely day at @thefarnhampottery @clay_at_thefarnhampottery teaching a glaze workshop
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Lovely day at @thefarnhampottery @clay_at_thefarnhampottery teaching a glaze workshop
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Thank you for the kind review @maribalsamawilson @london.potters “What sets this book apart is its ability to bridge two worlds that often feel separate: the tactile, intuitive world of the studio, and the precise, analytical world of materials science...this book provides answers always connected to the lived experience of studio practice.” The book is out now in the UK and comes out in the US on 29 September and in Australia on 1 December. You can order it from @bloomsburypublishing or @blackwellbooks who ship worldwide. The lustre ware ceramics pictured is by @athanatoselysia and @claudiaceramics
Thank you for the kind review @maribalsamawilson @london.potters “What sets this book apart is its ability to bridge two worlds that often feel separate: the tactile, intuitive world of the studio, and the precise, analytical world of materials science...this book provides answers always connected to the lived experience of studio practice.” The book is out now in the UK and comes out in the US on 29 September and in Australia on 1 December. You can order it from @bloomsburypublishing or @blackwellbooks who ship worldwide. The lustre ware ceramics pictured is by @athanatoselysia and @claudiaceramics
Thank you for the kind review @maribalsamawilson @london.potters “What sets this book apart is its ability to bridge two worlds that often feel separate: the tactile, intuitive world of the studio, and the precise, analytical world of materials science...this book provides answers always connected to the lived experience of studio practice.” The book is out now in the UK and comes out in the US on 29 September and in Australia on 1 December. You can order it from @bloomsburypublishing or @blackwellbooks who ship worldwide. The lustre ware ceramics pictured is by @athanatoselysia and @claudiaceramics
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Thank you for the kind review @maribalsamawilson @london.potters “What sets this book apart is its ability to bridge two worlds that often feel separate: the tactile, intuitive world of the studio, and the precise, analytical world of materials science...this book provides answers always connected to the lived experience of studio practice.” The book is out now in the UK and comes out in the US on 29 September and in Australia on 1 December. You can order it from @bloomsburypublishing or @blackwellbooks who ship worldwide. The lustre ware ceramics pictured is by @athanatoselysia and @claudiaceramics
2 weeks ago
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7/9
Today is publication day in the UK for our book Material Matters, An Artist’s Guide to Understanding Ceramic Materials. Thank you to the team at @herbert.press and @525_design The glaze chapters of the book cover glaze materials, local materials, glaze chemistry, colourants, firing, defects and special effects. Thank you to @diagramsbyhenry for the clear diagrams. Image: variations of the 4321 glaze with left, whiting and right, eggshells @sigurlinaosuala
Today is publication day in the UK for our book Material Matters, An Artist’s Guide to Understanding Ceramic Materials. Thank you to the team at @herbert.press and @525_design The glaze chapters of the book cover glaze materials, local materials, glaze chemistry, colourants, firing, defects and special effects. Thank you to @diagramsbyhenry for the clear diagrams. Image: variations of the 4321 glaze with left, whiting and right, eggshells @sigurlinaosuala
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Today is publication day in the UK for our book Material Matters, An Artist’s Guide to Understanding Ceramic Materials. Thank you to the team at @herbert.press and @525_design The glaze chapters of the book cover glaze materials, local materials, glaze chemistry, colourants, firing, defects and special effects. Thank you to @diagramsbyhenry for the clear diagrams. Image: variations of the 4321 glaze with left, whiting and right, eggshells @sigurlinaosuala
2 weeks ago
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Our book Material Matters, An Artist’s Guide to Understanding Ceramic Materials comes out tomorrow. There is a chapter on clay as liquid: slips, engobes, terra sigillata, making slips from local clays and Egyptian paste, a self-glazing clay body which leads us onto glazes. Work pictured, Dissolving Lines, slipcast stoneware, coloured engobes by @adi_avidani_ceramics Thank you to all the artists who contributed images
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Our book Material Matters, An Artist’s Guide to Understanding Ceramic Materials comes out tomorrow. There is a chapter on clay as liquid: slips, engobes, terra sigillata, making slips from local clays and Egyptian paste, a self-glazing clay body which leads us onto glazes. Work pictured, Dissolving Lines, slipcast stoneware, coloured engobes by @adi_avidani_ceramics Thank you to all the artists who contributed images
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