This elegant hand-thrown porcelain vase with a clear white glaze has been finished with detailed blue cobalt brushwork decoration. Featuring in Mia’s new 2019 collection, the piece was inspired by simple landscapes and trees that she represents with broad brushstrokes and the tonal application of cobalt washes.

Height 25 cm

Mia drew her inspiration for the shape of these two prize-winning porcelain hand-thrown vases from the form of ostrich eggs. She also decorated the vase with close-up images in cobalt brushwork of ostriches looking at the viewer. The exterior was finished with a clear white glaze contrasting with the dark blue of the interior. The pair of vases was exhibited at Potfest in the Pens 2019, in the Avian Architecture competition.

Height 30 cm

This hand-thrown plate, with cobalt brushwork decoration and a clear glaze, was finished with gold lustre detail. Mathematicians have searched for a pattern in prime numbers and never found one, but Mia has managed to create one. She sometimes makes pots featuring number sequences (primes, pi, phi, Fibonacci, etc.) for special exhibitions, and has noticed that they always spark more conversations than other pieces.

Height 30 cm

The serendipitous designs on these hand-thrown, clear-glazed porcelain bowls evolved from experimenting with colour in the kiln. The “halos” in the oxide decorations are formed with vanadium crystals. This is an ongoing series, with the large bowls being particularly popular.

Mia has around 30 ranges of designs that she paints on a variety of functional objects, some of which are shown here. These clear-glazed, hand-thrown mugs were finished with cobalt brushwork. Her themes are inspired by wildlife and domestic animals, ocean creatures, botanicals, or literary references such as the short story Blue Tigers by JL Borges, which gave rise to her blue tiger range.

Diameter 13 cm