Mollie Makes

TEA AND A CHAT

“Everything was inspired by the world I’d been immersed in.”

Originally I moved to Australia to pursue a doctorate in Marine Biology, but four years later I emerged from there as a potter withIt was so difficult and I was terrible at it. It was nothing at all like the meditative and fluid movements you watch in pottery videos, more a panicked splashing and sloshing as the top of the espresso cup you’ve been meticulously perfecting for an hour flies off the wheel and across the room. Splat. Somehow, I persevered and after a couple of months I was totally hooked. and soy sauce dishes became fruit bowls. By the time I was finishing up my PhD, I had started teaching my own pottery classes, my work was featuring in exhibitions and I was selling my makes online, too. Everything was deeply inspired by the marine world that I had been immersed in for so many years. When I decided to switch from a life in marine biology to full-time pottery, combining the two things I love the most into my business. In April of this year I moved back home to England and I’m having the time of my life continuing an adventure of creativity and ceramics, with the underwater world firmly at the centre of it all.

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