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Mary Stephens

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Blue tea mug with brown tint, slightly different sizes. £28 and £30 respectively
Mary Stephens is a ceramicist and yoga instructor.
She works primarily in porcelain and makes both beautiful functional kitchenware, and ceramic sculptures inspired by her yoga practice.
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Selection of Mary Stephens' Blue Porcelain Tableware
I’m an artist, potter and Yoga teacher. I studied Fine Art Sculpture at Bretton Hall (College of Leeds University). On returning home to Herefordshire from university I trained as an apprentice potter to Jonathan and Melaine Hughes-Jones at Pembridge Terracotta. 

I came back to creating work about six years ago and work from a small studio in North Herefordshire. I love working in clay either on the wheel or hand building. I feel very lucky to be able to combine working with clay, making and creating, with teaching yoga. They both benefit and feed into each other. 

Each of these pieces is a one off original - hand made by pinching out clay and sculpting.  They are all stoneware except for the yoga posed piece which is porcelain.  The wings are paper and fabric.  The smoke firing process involves the sculpture being fired then put into a container of sawdust which is lit and left to smouldering over night, leaving unique smoke patterns on the final piece. I like the unpredictable nature of this way of finishing a piece. The process can also mean work may break so it’s always a joy to open the container to see not only the patterns the smoke has left, but that the piece is still intact. ​


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Saggar fired sculptures:
The saggar firing process involves firing the sculpture, then soaking it in salt water, wrapping with wire and re-firing in a saggar with combustibles.

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      • Three of a Kind
      • Treasure Town 2021
      • Walkers are Welcome
      • BIG DRAW 2021
      • h.Art 2021
      • Into the Midsummer Meadows 2021
      • Small Wonders 2021
      • Home Grown 2021 >
        • Robert Kilvert
      • Stirrings of Spring 2021
      • Previous years' exhibitions >
        • Box of Delights 2020
        • Land Into Art 2020 >
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          • The Walker
          • Hergest Croft Gardens
        • SPICE 2020
        • Small is Beautiful 2020
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