Hello we are Deborah and Paul … Dappled Sky
We’ve been married for yonks, and have been creating handmade ceramic products together from 2021 officially as Dappled Sky. We work in our home studio, in a village in Stoke-on-Trent, with a rural outlook towards the Peak District. Both born in the City of Stoke-on-Trent, and it being the historic land of ceramics – known all over the word as “The Potteries” – that means we have clay running through our veins!
Paul is the brains behind the clay – he has worked in the local pottery industry since leaving school, back in the 1980’s. Through this decades of experience, he has built a fantastic range of skills and knowledge for the whole pottery process. His talents have been utilised to create ceramics for a wide variety of clients and well known names, from when he worked for a small family company called Little Acorn Ceramics which made pieces for ‘Beswick’, and other commissions and international clients. And more recently through Dappled Sky contracts for ‘Mai Accents’ (Marzia Kjellberg) and making mugs for ‘Phyllos Ceramics’ in London.
Deborah graduated with a diploma in Fashion Design at Burslem School of Art, in Stoke-on-Trent and went on to achieve a B.A.(Hons) degree in Fashion at St. Martins College of Art, London in the early 1990’s. Her skills and experience evolved through working in theatre and community arts, delivering hands-on creative workshops, managing events, plus heritage and creative industry projects. A multi disciplinary artist who now happily sits at a table being Head Paintress, and also the person behind the computer, designing this website and dealing with marketing, orders and invoices.
Dappled Sky is a small family, and creates ceramics in small batches, with very limited editions and one-of-a-kind pieces.
You can buy our products and artwork through our online shop and at makers markets across the country and check our where to find us page, for any current galleries or shops stocking our work, and any markets and events we will be appearing at.
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