Sensitive Buoy Buoy Bowl, Red Cuillin

 Formed on Mimi’s favourite washed-up buoy found on the Scottish coast, this is delicate and would suit soft things, like marshmallows.

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

Clay: Scarva Earthstone 20, smooth textured white body

Glaze: Red Cuillin: Interior - Rusty Mottle inner rim, Island Turquoise, an inner puddle of Wedgewood low-fire glaze. Exterior - unglazed

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.