About me

Joanna is a ceramic artist with over 30 years' experience as a maker and 10 years’ experience leading creative workshops in community, education, and care settings. Her studio practice is grounded in clay, with drawing playing a role as a thinking tool and a way of sustaining regular creative attention and wellbeing.

Alongside her studio practice, Joanna designs and delivers inclusive, process-led workshops for people of all ages. Her workshops support older adults experiencing isolation at lunch club sessions, the mental wellbeing of adults through arts-for-wellbeing programmes and children's emotional wellbeing and motor skills through clay clubs, creative holiday clubs and enrichment days.

 

Artworks
Joanna leading a clay workshop at young bristol

Sharing skills

Sharing creative practice is at the heart of Joanna's work. Through workshops designed for all ages and abilities, she creates a welcoming space to encourage curiosity, build confidence, and develop lasting creative skills.

Private sessions and bespoke workshops for celebrations or specific groups are available on request.

Joanna holds an enhanced DBS certificate.

Workshops & Events

How I started

Joanna has been making drawings and clay pieces since childhood.  She began working with ceramics at the age of 9 at a Saturday morning Clay Club — led by Bristol potter Vivica Hunter. She completed Art O and A levels and went on to Bath Academy of Art, to do an Arts Foundation Course in 1984.  Continuing at Bath Academy of Art, she graduated with a BA Hons in Ceramics in 1987.

Artworks
RElief clay piece with coil pattern infilled with coloured glass