Stef Storey - ceramics

Don down in ceramics recommended I look up Stef Storey, she makes beautiful porcelain pieces and many of her projects have been around bedsheets, bedtimes and bedtime stories. I really love the designs of her pieces; they're all handmade and hand-finished, yet look incredibly professional. I appreciate that this will be due to years of experience with ceramics and understanding the materials she is handling, so I can but only aim to try and achieve something that looks as beautiful as Storey's work.

Teapot, cup, saucer and vase set

 

Work available from Hestascene:

Porcelain tea-light holders

I particularly love the range of work Stef offers; there's a great mix of practical, sell-able every day pieces, but also more bespoke collectible pieces. This range really reflects the direction of my work that I have started to develop and am really enjoying.

I think Stef's website is under construction as there's a lot links to her website that are all currently unavailable, so I've found some info through other website about her, the following statement is taken from Cambridge Contemporary Crafts Gallery.

"I love seeing sheets, pillow cases and duvets - hanging out on the washing line to dry. On a windy day, the inanimate fabric comes to life and seems to dance. Bringing it in - ironing smooth the wrinkled cotton into neatly folded piles of fabric sculptures - then opening up the sweet-smelling linen parcels and covering the naked mattress - smoothing and plumping - to then stand back and survey the oasis of calm that invites comfort and peace - finally to lie down and be enveloped in the smell of fresh cotton, smooth and cool against skin, is the blissful reward.

This is the source of inspiration that lies behind my work. Porcelain possesses qualities of whiteness, strength, translucency and the fine smooth surface is perfect to impress the fabric like layering of bedding.

The question of functional versus the non-functional has preoccupied me throughout this project and will continue to create tension within my working practice. What I can depend on is my quest for perfectionism - it underlies my work coupled with a fervent desire to design and create original, beautiful hand built contemporary work. "