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For me, birds symbolise freedom. This one with her adornments speaks to the joyful feeling of embracing quirks and having fun with your adornments and appearance 🤩 self acceptance is an underlying theme in a lot of my work I’m discovering.

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WIP 🌞 now it needs to dry, I’ll add glaze and then we can see how it turns out 🤞🤞 I’m happy to be back to a bit of sgraffito and sunflower faces 🧡

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#loisgunn #pottery #plate #ceramicart #sgraffito

The studio. Snapped by a lovely new customer @lindseymazzaferrophoto this week. It’s feels like a huge gift to meet these amazing people who come to visit and share conversations. When they’re also a wonderful photographer and share their

The emotion attached to these pears has been so surprising. I have felt quite bereft having finished sculpting the 100 I’d aimed to do. During the sculpting weeks I was so excited to get into the studio and keep going with it, each part of the

Because that’s what I’m aiming for when I create. So for a customer to choose to say these things it means I’m doing something right.

The words are like a gift that I get to hold and treasure.

It’s other people who make thi

They’re giving me serenity and acceptance 🌞✌️

The first 4 test pears before and after their gold lustre firing.

Now I’m on the home straight of getting the other 96 safely through glaze and lustre firings.

Each will be signed and ed

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I was so disappointed when I saw these. They were not what I was expecting and look to my eye completely different to my usual Raku llamas.

I’m not sure what happened, the kiln was telling me it wasn’t at temperature but the door was di

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Nice little dish, I want to make more. I want to make more of everything but there’s never enough time 😭 I’m currently obsessed with pear ladies 🍐 and I got it in my head I want to make 100. I don’t know why but it’s got its

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Results from the latest Raku firing at @tudorhallschool @tudorhallceramics with my @potterythrow friend @james_stead_ceramics 🌞 some new experimental shapes were lots of fun!

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#raku #pottery #potterythrowdown #loisgunn #owl

Here are a few new little ancestor goddesses that I finished this week. I’m excited to make lots more of these. I particularly love their little bird friends in their shoulder and their gold torque necklaces 🌞

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#loisgunnn#ceramixart

Friends 🌞 firings 🌞 folk art 🌞

What a wonderful weekend!

Thank you @potterythrow series 9 potters for your wonderful company as well as my OG pottery fam @theclayplaceuk @christophe_ceramics @james_stead_ceramics @tudorhallceramics @legacycraf

Coming back around to these joyful flowers when I get a chance! My to do list is just getting so long! I’ve started making tiny sketches on my notes app of ideas that pop into my head though and I’m really excited to start working on some

Sunshine and shadows and drying pieces bringing so much joy in the studio this week 🌞🌞🌞

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#pottery #sunshine #goddess #trinketdish #gratitude

Something a bit different for me. Minimalist trio of vases. I had to snap this pic when the were being shone on by the gorgeous sun in the gallery area this weekend 🫶 they’re going online now 🌞

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#vases #loisgunn #pottery #minimal #ce

What an honour to be asked to speak about my journey so far and to have the wonderful, encouraging and immensely talented Devi ( @d.d.designs ) to talk with and keep me on track.

The @aldeburghjubileehall team are so wonderful and the hall is stunn

I’ve been working on a new big piece. It’s always nerve wracking to make bigger things because so much time goes into them so if there are any small imperfections it’s heartbreaking. I have to remind myself to slow down and take lot