Ceramic artist Katie Bonham is having a lot of fun right now digging about in the Thames riverside mud, and the constructive influence of watery environments (she was based in Brighton for some time) can be seen in wall-pieces that clearly have an affinity with shells and the sea – successful pieces that led to the Stella McCartney store in Tokyo utilising her wall-mounted concave shell shapes to display her products.

She’s a keen diver and gardener and instinctively draws inspiration from the natural world – plants, seeds, marine creatures.

Her career in ceramics started with a restoration business in Kensington’s London Antique Gallery and now she’s back ‘in town’ at Cockpit Studios and has re-kindled her love of the history of London and its lifeblood, the Thames.

Right now she’s engaged in a serious commission for the Hayward Gallery involving major work based on the ‘concrete/heavy/grey/industrial’ impact of the South Bank architecture.

Clearly a woman who sees creative potential in so many things, both animate and inanimate.