Lucinda Brown, ‘Potted’ personal history,

I have a passion for textiles, which began at the age of fifteen when I discovered jumble sales as a source of vintage fabrics. This was mid 60’s and the trend for vintage clothing had just begun.
As most of the ‘gems’ needed some restoration, I began to learn how to construct these garments by deconstruction. By the 1980’s I had taught myself to make pretty much anything on a sewing machine. Then one day someone came to me and asked if I could make them a hat, I thought why not?  Then set about the task. 
The customer was delighted with the result and word spread, before long I had orders for a dozen or so and decided to make hats my primary source of income. I set up and ran a market stall for a year and then met someone with a small unit who could produce the hats in volume.
Thus I found myself at the 1990 London International fashion Show at Olympia, agreeing to supply French Connection and Fenwick’s among others. It seemed as if my dreams had come true, but in the 90’s bank managers were hard on small business and mine failed.
I decided to investigate higher learning and enrolled on an Access to Art course at the local college. I didn’t know it but this was to change my life dramatically. By the time I finished the course I had met my future husband and was inspired by a material quite new to me, clay.
After a three years degree course studying ceramics at the University of Wolverhampton, I spent one more year studying and developing my skills at the Design Workers Foundation. When the DWF folded, I stayed on in the rented studio sharing it with a friend I had met at university.
In 2001 I had the opportunity to move to the beautiful location where I am so happy to be living. I have a large and airy studio in a former granary on the Claydon House Estate, where I create the ceramic art I sell to visitors and galleries across the U.K. and internationally.