2024 – Taking part in Potfest South West – Shaftesbury and Potfest in the Pens – Melton Mowbray

Inner Finn Ceramics was born as huge flakes of snow drifted down from the Finnish sky and in a moment of extreme clarity, showing me that this, this clay business, was where I needed to spend my time.

I’m Julie, I’m the person behind the Inner Finn Ceramics Brand, the crafter behind the porcelain. I make an eclectic mix of slip cast table ware, decorative household objects and sculpture, encompassing my love of tactile forms and using beautiful things to eat and drink from. Each item of my homeware and sculpture, is hand cast and individually decorated. Each piece is an expression of the mood and the moment. A one off for you to hold, to use or place in your house. Objects to treasure, touch, love and use.

I create in my home studio, a small space in Cheshire, artfully crammed with equipment. It’s freezing cold in the winter but I value it above other spaces for the solitude it provides for me, the restorative calm and the knowing that things will be just where my hands left them. I enjoy the way the sunlight falls across my workbenches at certain times of the day, the sound of the birds in the trees outside, and the changing landscape as the surroundings respond to the seasons.

I work towards the pleasure I see on people’s faces when they handle my pieces; the smooth tactility of my work somehow soothing away some of their troubles. There’s a little piece of the maker in every handmade piece of work. And as a maker what I’m trying to pass on is that connection with that still, quiet space within. For just a moment. For you to find a moment of calm in this busy world, to restore yourself just momentarily before you move on to the next thing.

www.innerfinn.co.uk