Fatbellypots

The work I make is carefully crafted but delights in imperfections. I spend time with each piece considering how to best show its character. Not cleaning up and hiding the making technique, but looking for ways of emphasising that which it is. The surface decoration happens in a similar way. I tear and stick and draw, working with both plan and chance then look and think and hunt for possibilities. From these possibilities characters and narrative evolve.. The fun for me is exploring how the characters communicate, both with each other and with the viewer.

photo by Mick Dixon

"Katherine's work is highly individual, quirky and enigmatic. The pots suggest stories, with an atmosphere that is intriguing, odd, and sometimes plain weird. I love the way her decorations challenge our imagination."

Bluestone Gallery, Hay-on-Wye

PRIZES


2023 - FIRST PRIZE  -  City Arts' Teapot Competition


2022 - PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD  -  September Ceramics 2022, City Arts Newbury


2021 - JUDGES CHOICE AWARD  -  Allen Gallery Open Art Exhibition, Alton


2019 - VOLUNTEERS' PRIZE  -  Black Swan Arts Open, Frome

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS(for current exhibitions, etc. see GALLERIES AND EVENTS


Winter Exhibition - Byard Art, Cambridge, Nov/Dec 2025

Tea Party - Utopia, The Unexpected Gallery, Holt- July/August 2025

Oxford Ceramics Fair, St Edwards School, Oxford  - October 2019, 2024 and 2025

Black Swan Arts Open, Frome 2019 & 2024 

Playful, City Arts Newbury 2024

September Ceramics, City Arts Newbury- 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

Open Studios WBNH- 2019-2025

Spring Collection - New Ashgate Gallery2023

Potters - Bristol- Guest Potter - March/April and Nov/Dec 2023

Wherever I Lay My Hat, Baxter Gallery, Dartmouth- May - June 2023

Art in Clay, Farnham-  November 2022 & 2023

Achtung: Kunsthandwerk, 75 Yahre, BDK, Stuttgart   -   Mar - Sept 2022

Celebrating Ceramics, Waterperry, Oxford   - 2021, 2022, 2023,  2024, 2025 

Cup The Intimate Object XVII - Charlie Cummins Gallery, Florida   - Oct/Nov 2020-22

Handmade Chelsea   curated by Dan Goode - 12 - 14 November 2021

Allen Gallery Open Art Exhibition- May-July 2021

Obsidian Art Summer Collection, Stoke Manderville,  - July/Oct 2021


COMMISSIONS

Oct 2025- Community wall piece (celebrating 10 years of City Arts) - The Art Hub Cafe, City Arts (see image below)

Private commissions in both Britain and abroad


PREVIOUS GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Found Gallery,Dunbar

New Ashgate Gallery  Farnham

Bell Fine Art  Winchester

New Brewery Arts  Cirencester

Studio 3 Cleveden, Somerset

Ceramic Art Whitway

The Upstairs Gallery, Berkhamsted

Strawberry Fish, Hartley Witney

The Jelly, Reading

Pennifex, Wallingford

The Peacock Gallery, Reading


TALKS AND DEMONSTRATIONS


Jan 2026 Dacorum and Chiltern Potters Guild

Oct 2024 - Ceramic Art Oxford

Apr 2023Bucks Pottery and Sculpture Society

Nov 2022 Art in Clay, Farnham

Dec 2020 Dacorum and Chiltern Potters Guild - online

Mar 2020 West Forest Potters

Sep 2019 City Arts Newbury