Spring 2024 shop opening and a couple of updates

Hello, my loves!
​​It is already mid-March, I hope you are having a nice start to 2024 and are looking forward to spring which is just around the corner.
I BRING YOU SOME SUPER HAPPY NEWS!
My first online shop of 2024 is now live!
You can visit it by clicking here, and keep reading if you wish to know more about my new work.
Since January I have been gradually working on a number of new collections that include wild clays and materials, and in this first shop update, I am introducing the first two - the IMPRESSIONS and REMNANTS.
IMPRESSIONS collection is all about raw and unprocessed wild materials. I use them to capture and express the numerous types of impressions these materials possess, from impressions of nature and time on the materials to the impression the materials had on me and how this changed from where it was collected to the studio environment. By literally impressing the material onto a thrown vessel while the clay is still soft, the material bonds with the vessel and together they form a new impression on you.
REMNANTS is a collection of tableware which is made with a variety of stoneware clays and porcelain, which I kept after finishing a number of different projects over the last seven years. These clays are very different in their colour, texture and character, all of which I embraced in this collection. Consequently, the pieces are completely unique and cannot be repeated. During the glaze firing some pieces developed unusual finishes of even cracks where the material shrunk at different rates. All of these unpredictable changes are embraced and welcomed in this collection.
I hope you will enjoy these new pieces :)
My shop will stay open until the end of April and until then I will be adding some new pieces to the shop as they come out of the kiln.
In other news, I am currently working on a larger collection of tableware, for which I am developing a selection of wild materials and wood ash glazes. These will hopefully be completed in the next couple of weeks so watch out for updates on Instagram @emporiumjulium 
Thank you so much, if you have read all the way to the end of my newsletter.
I am truly grateful for your support, by liking, commenting and sharing my work on social media you are helping me grow my audience and by purchasing my work you are making my work possible, which is more than I could ever ask for.
Thank you!
Yours,

Jxx