Meet The Maker

“My favourite sort of day is when I can clear the decks and get on with making and designing.

- Catherine Coyle

I love being in my beautiful studio, with the radio on, absorbed in developing new ideas or focused on physically making an object from clay. I grew up in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, which I didn’t think was a terribly exciting place at the time. Little did I know that the seeds of the now blossoming contemporary arts scene were being sown. I love going home to visit the worldclass institutions in the region, such as the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Hepworth, the Henry Moore Institute and the Centre of Ceramic Art. I was very lucky to be tutored by renowned ceramic artist David Roberts on a foundation course in Yorkshire. It led to a successful application to the ceramic department in the design school at Edinburgh College of Art, where I graduated in 1999 with a BA and a PGDip in ceramics. After graduation my work was selected for Talente – a survey show of European craft and design graduates – organised by the Handwerkskammer of Munich, which meant that