Linda Southwell Ceramics

Linda Southwell Ceramics Sculptural porcelain ceramics from UK artist Linda Southwell

This one is called "how are you holding up?"
28/08/2026

This one is called "how are you holding up?"


Dried honesty and alliums from the garden. Tinkering in the studio today..
22/08/2026

Dried honesty and alliums from the garden. Tinkering in the studio today..

A ruined porcelain factory and brick works, not too far apart, on the coastal path of Anglesey. Situated at the northern...
20/08/2026

A ruined porcelain factory and brick works, not too far apart, on the coastal path of Anglesey. Situated at the northern tip of the Island, where the weather is wild, I cant help but be fascinated by what happened here. When did they close? Where did the porcelain go to?

The geology of the Island is also incredibly intriguing. The formation is pre-Cambrian and the rock types range from gneiss and schists to basalt and quartzites (Im no expert so the spellings are probably hideously wrong). I spent my childhood collecting rocks like a compulsive magpie and I found myself doing the same here.

I cant help but think itd be a great place to pot - I know there is one wood firer on the Island but not sure where he is based...

Our relationship with nature and natural materials is fascinating. Ive also been in Rome this summer and I was particularly conscious of the clay tiles the Romans used for construction. Clay is a material that humans have developed such a complex relationship with and whilst in Rome, reading Artful by Ali Smith (a book given to me by a lovely colleague at Nottingham high) I was intrigued by her reference to the story of Gilgamesh and how humans were created in clay. It is the first known recorded story but clay being used in creation stories transcends cultures and appears in Greek mythology, Christianity and Egyptian stories.

All of these strands of thought are intriguing and inform some of my current research...

In the winter of 2019 forest fires raged across Australia and I created an installation called "Ghosts in the Graveyard"...
29/07/2026

In the winter of 2019 forest fires raged across Australia and I created an installation called "Ghosts in the Graveyard" (the common name given to Yucca trees in Mexico) as a response to this. I knew Yuccas were capable of regenerating after fires and found hope in this capability. My aim was to sell small yucca flowers to raise money for environmental charities but Covid swept across the world and the installation became a ghost in more broader terms.

I know I am not alone in my worry about what is happening, or my frustration at my own inability to affect change. Maybe thats why my wildlife garden has become so important to me?

Perhaps it is time for me to revisit this kind of work. I am incredibly grateful to David Kesteven (Head Gardener at Renishaw Hall) for allowing this project to happen.

Wow, Potfest in the Park!! What a weekend. I had the most amazing conversations with fellow potters, customers (old and ...
27/07/2026

Wow, Potfest in the Park!! What a weekend. I had the most amazing conversations with fellow potters, customers (old and new: thank you!), admirers and friends. Grateful to everyone I chatted to for their time, annecdotes and humour. Massive thanks to the Potfest team who looked after us so well and the potters who fed us on Saturday night.

Its an intense experience doing a show on your own... I think it started with the drive up when I realised I couldnt see out of my rear view or left wing mirror 😱 But I made it, got set up and managed to put up a one person tent too 💪 Not sure Ive felt so liberated as when I strode nearly the length of a field with just a towel around me after an early morning outdoor shower. I grew up on a dairy farm in the Ribble Valley and the neighbouring dairy farm made me feel like Id come home...

Photos are of neighbouring stands. The quality of work on show was insane. In my 30 years of being connected to the ceramics world as a hobbyist, professional maker, show visitor and collector, it was quite literally off the scale. So happy to have taken part...



Melanie Keevil Ceramic Art

Russell Coates

Sharon Griffin MRSS

Tony Laverick

Francis Lloyd-Jones

Lucy Rutter Studio Pottery

Russell Martin

RichardStJohnHeeley

Andrew Niblett

Set up day for Potfest in the Park, Hutton-in-the-Forest on Friday - Sunday (24th-26th July)... I am surrounded by aston...
23/07/2026

Set up day for Potfest in the Park, Hutton-in-the-Forest on Friday - Sunday (24th-26th July)... I am surrounded by astonishing work 🙏🥰

Pontison Thrift Fest

This crazy piece is finally finished. Unfortunately she isnt coming to potfest in the park this weekend because she woul...
21/07/2026

This crazy piece is finally finished. Unfortunately she isnt coming to potfest in the park this weekend because she would be too stressful to transport. Each head is removable, which was a new development in my making process. It worked well in some ways but they were incredibly difficult to make/handle.

She took a long time to make and there are so many research themes bound up in this but predominantly a response to how femininity has been controlled by associations with flowers. I used black as an antithesis to the 'virginal' white lilies often used by the Church to idealise female purity and introduced spikes to antagonise the concept of female softness and fragility.

I will sit with it for a while and wonder if it has a journey to take?

21/07/2026

Bath time scrubadub scrub.

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