Wide Buoy Bowl, White Gloss Dip

Formed on a buoy found on the shores of Wester Ross in Scotland, this good deep bowl holds plenty and its rounded base will happily sit in a lap. Perfect for popcorn. The exterior is gently worn by hand, as if by the wind and the waves, contrasting with an interior and rim of bright white light.

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.

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

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

Glaze: White Gloss dipped rim and interior