Tythegston Pottery - Designed by Joanna Howells

I love to make pottery for every day use. The pleasure of using a hand made piece is like no other and lasts forever.

I had difficulty finding my true path in life. My childhood ambition was to be a scientist and I went to Cambridge to study natural sciences. I then decided to transfer to Medical Sciences and was on track to be a doctor when I at last realised that all the creative hobbies I loved had taken strong hold on my imagination. What to do? I was fortunate in my art teacher at school who was most interested in pottery herself and had fought for a well resourced pottery room with wheels and a kiln and I had spent a lot of time in there during my last 2 years at school. I eventually found that I could bring both science and art together in pottery and ended up deciding not to pursue medical studies, but to go to art school in London.

I did foundation studies at Sir John Cass Art College in Whitechapel and then got a place at the prestigious Harrow School of Art and Design.

I have worked in Britain and France as a ceramic artist ever since. I am so grateful I found my true vocation.