The Beach Buoy Bowl, nestling trio of bowls

These Beach Buoy Bowls are a set of snack or trinket bowls which nestle one within the next. The first was formed on a wee buoy retrieved from the beach near Gairloch in Scotland; the little and baby bowls got their shapes from softly rounded pebbles from the Isle of Lewis.

Clay: Flecked Stoneware body, based on fireclay deposits mined in South Staffordshire

All of my pieces are hand-built and so have deliberate irregularities and unintentional asymmetries. Sizes approximate.

Clay: Flecked Stoneware

Glaze: White Gloss dipped rim and interior

sold as a set

Mimi’s hand-built stoneware pieces are inspired by her love of the seashore on the south coast, and of the more rugged north-west coast of Scotland. Following a successful career as a fashion journalist, magazine editor and non-fiction author (she wrote the best-selling 5:2 Fast Diet with Dr Michael Mosley), Mimi has now found her happy place making beautiful ceramics in Hove.

Some are functional, others more sculptural - but all are eroded by hand as if by the elements, in the colours of the ocean and the earth. This is the first time her works have been exhibited.