KINSHIP

This page gathers traces of shared making—pit fires, woodland workshops, creek-bed clay sessions. While my current focus is on unpotes, these collaborative moments remain vital to my practice. They reflect how clay connects us: across generations, across landscapes.

In our forest school workshops, families shape greenware from creek clay and ochre, then leave pieces unfired in the woods. Rain and soil reclaim the forms, completing a cycle of impermanence and return. These ephemeral works honour the material’s origin and invite reflection, remoulding, and ecological stewardship.

Pit fires are communal rituals. We fire together using foraged hornbeam and pine, watching clay transform in dialogue with flame and weather. Each fire is a conversation—between material, memory, and community.

This archive is not a catalogue, but a living loop. It holds the fingerprints of children, the stories of grandparents, and the quiet endurance of clay.