Julie AytonCeramics

Julie Ayton throws porcelain and stoneware from a converted engineering shed on Winchester Street, a few minutes' walk from Salisbury's market square, where she has worked since 1990. Her tableware and one-off bowls and jugs carry surface decoration drawn from print-making, architecture and textile pattern, built up with sgraffito and inlay rather than glaze alone. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a professional member of the Craft Potters Association, with work held on the Crafts Council's directory of makers. Alongside her own production she runs occasional one and two-day masterclasses from the studio, covering wheel-throwing, decoration and glaze chemistry in small groups, priced at around ninety pounds a day including lunch. Courses are booked through a mailing list rather than open sale, and the studio doubles as a small showroom for finished work between firings.