Jill Ford Ceramics

Handmade breakfast cups, sugar bowls and candlesticks adding originality and flair to your table.   Cups A lovely way to start the day with tea or coffee from a handmade original breakfast cup – made with care and to a specially large capacity – as I am such a big tea drinker especially first thing in the morning! Each [...]

The new exciting range of large curvaceous forms with heavily distressed decoration. The Strata range was inspired by sedimentary rock formation I sketched whilst staying at Seaham Hall Hotel near to Middlesborough. The rocks were laid down in layers on the seabed ions ago and subjected to natural forces that heaved them up onto the surface of the [...]

Purity, strength and beauty  – the qualities of bone china – white clay that fires to a matte finish with a high degree of translucency. If light chances to shine behind the pieces they will glow with a seductive luminosity. Solid silver settings and chains give sparkle and life to the pieces. The inspiration for this [...]

Full blown blooms of old-fashioned shrub roses adorn vases and an oval dish. Vases Old-fashioned English shrub roses are amongst my favourite flowers. Their full flat blooms with densely packed petals are intense and beautiful. The Charles de Mills rose has confetti like petals forming into whorls and is perfect for portraying in porcelain. The clay is [...]

After spending a day working in the walled garden of Sledmere House near to Driffield, sketching some very vigorous echinacea plants, I decided to try to capture their forms in porcelain. Vases and bowls are thrown on the wheel then pinched around the rim whilst still soft to create a deckle edge. The exuberant seed heads [...]

WALL PIECES Winter Outcrop – small wall piece depicting silver birch copse in snow and ice Price: £240.00  Spurn Point wide wide wall piece with view of Spurn Point Price: £340.00  Serenity – wide One of my favourite wall pieces – the Serenity image depicts a copse of silver birches loosely reflected in the River [...]

The Landscape range – elegant bowls and vases thrown on the wheel with a simple oval dish, decorated with stylised silver birches. LANDSCAPE RANGE Landscape Vase large Simple tapering porcelain vase with carved silver birch design, waterproof , hand wash. size : medium 16 – 18 cm diam Price: £125.00 Landscape vase – small A dainty [...]

The new exciting range of large curvaceous forms with heavily distressed decoration. The Strata range was inspired by sedimentary rock formation I sketched whilst staying at Seaham Hall Hotel near to Middlesborough. The rocks were laid down in layers on the seabed ions ago and subjected to natural forces that heaved them up onto the surface of the [...]