Meet the maker: Rhian Foulkes of Kiln & Copse

Rhian Foulkes has been throwing pots in Congleton for a decade, but it's only in the last few years that the workshop has really found its rhythm — a barn full of drying ware, a wood-kiln she built herself from reclaimed brick, and a habit of digging a little of her own clay from the field out back every spring.

"It's not about being precious with it," she says, turning a bottle vase in her hands to check the glaze line. "It's about the pots actually knowing where they're from."

That shows in the work: pale, speckled stoneware with the odd flash of colour where the wood-fire licked a pot at just the right moment. No two firings ever come out quite the same, and Rhian wouldn't have it any other way.