Bridge Pottery

Micki Schloessingk has made pots on the Gower since 1987, and is one of the most respected wood-fire potters in Britain — her studio at Bridge Pottery in Cheriton, by the Burry Pill, turns out salt-glazed stoneware fired to enormous heat in a wood kiln, the surfaces marked by flame and ash and salt. It is slow, old, demanding work, done to a standard that has made her a name in studio ceramics far beyond Wales. The gallery is open at the end of the week, and by arrangement otherwise, in a quiet corner of the peninsula below Llanmadoc. Functional pots, made by hand and fire, by a potter at the top of the craft.