Glenice Hoffmann Ceramics
2026 – Taking part in Potfest South East – Glynde Place
In 2014, after a career as a parliamentary reporter and editor, Glenice returned to her lifelong passion for clay. Always fascinated by art and the journey from realism to abstraction, she drew inspiration from the stark, linear qualities of modernists like Kandinsky and Mondrian, seeking to create eye-catching, decorative ceramics, and exploring the power and strength of simplicity through the sharpness and directness of geometric forms.
For Glenice, the making process has become a way to find stillness in a frenetic and uncertain world. Her attention is directed less on the end result and more widely on the path of its creating —the patient rhythm of hand-building, the meditative process of burnishing, and the direct, grounding connection with the clay. The body of work she presents is influenced by that approach. While the pieces possess strong, clean, abstract qualities, they also carry the sense of calm and harmony she cultivated during their making. The stark, natural, tactile surfaces—textured, inlaid, smoke-fired, polished—which require only a single, energy-conscious firing, are designed to be touched and held, inviting a quiet, sensory experience.