About 1690

When my fifth child started school, I opened a shop in part of my home at the time and began 1690, a sort of Diagon Alley-style place where I imagined Molly Weasley would go for her essentials. I made candles and balms and jams, but what really took off were my ceramics, which I started making in earnest in about 2019. I closed the shop and installed a kiln in the laundry room at the house: 1. so I could carry on working once the children had gone to bed and 2. so I could dry the washing quickly. Things sort of developed. I now sell my entire portfolio here online and in a number of really wonderful shops and galleries around the world. I was asked some time ago what my dream creative project would be and I answered, ‘Fixing my roof’. Frankly, home - what and who we choose to surround ourselves with is, I believe, our most creative endeavour. So make it lovely if you can. And tender.

1690 now operates from the outbuildings of my family home in a small village in the Dorset countryside.