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As a Yoga Teacher and Potter I express letting go of learnt behaviours to reveal your true-self and finding balance within universal consciousness through thrown and trimmed porcelain vessels. Using material properties, process and form as embodied metaphors. Pots as bodies - containers of life, trimming as letting go, function as Dharma.

In the points of stillness, a pause, a moment to be present, to notice, we connect with ourselves, those around us and the world around us. The practice of yoga helping you to undo learnt behaviours and beliefs to return to more of your true nature, true-self, your individual consciousness, allowing you to become more aware and present.

In combining my practices of yoga and ceramics I use material properties of thrown, trimmed and carved porcelain, process, forms and outcomes as embodied metaphors of a lived experience of yoga. Drawing on accepted personification of pots as bodies, containers of life, to represent individual consciousness - the true-self. Combined with boundary metaphor, circles as cycles of life - to orientate self within place, world, environment, within the whole – within universal consciousness. 

The objects of contemplation are individual pieces, a pot and a circle/curved form, which when combined lift and hold each other at a point that they cannot rest at on their own. Finding balance and harmony, stillness, in connection, in relation. The bowls being the self, the individual experience of letting go of learnt behaviours.

My first training in ceramics was on my Fine Art degree course at Bretton Hall, Leeds University and then as an apprentice production thrower at Pembridge Terracotta. More recently completing my MA in Contemporary Crafts from Hereford College of Arts 2025. Since which I've been delighted to show at Craft festivals, Cheltenham and Bovey, Oxford Ceramics Fair, Potfest's, Sleaford Hub, Made showcase at YSP and at Collect 2026.

Mary Stephens Ceramics

Mary Stephens Ceramics

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