About Eliza May Pottery

Eliza launched Eliza May Pottery in the Cotswolds in 2018. She creates bespoke tableware for restaurants, unique display vessels for florists, and naturally scented candle giftware. Her tableware collection is stocked by small independent suppliers throughout the UK and larger retailers, including Daylesford Organic and Hatton and Harding. Eliza’s florist clients include the aspirational Philippa Craddock who has used Eliza’s pottery in displays for some of the world’s most highly respected design studios and floral brands.

Eliza’s pottery is characterised by relaxed organic shapes in neutral tones reflective of the Cotswold hills where she resides.  Every piece of Eliza’s pottery is handmade on the wheel in her home studio, which makes each pot, bowl, jug and cup completely unique.  Eliza also likes her pieces to be functional or have a dual purpose drawing inspiration from the Arts and Crafts movement with a modern twist.

“I feel everything I make needs to have a dual purpose and can be used again and again.  Like the cappuccino cup and macchiato cup being pots for a plant or a cup to drink from, the jugs being used as vases, the tall straight sided vase as a wine cooler.”

Eliza first studied pottery at school where she enjoyed GCSE and A-level ceramics .  She then completed a foundation art course at Bristol School of Art and Design. For several years she then followed a different career path whilst bringing up her young family.

A few years ago, with her children a little bit older, Eliza returned to pottery.   She met a ceramicist at a local market who kindly offered her his studio to practice.  Eliza’s original passion for pottery was reignited and she was ready to return to her creative work.  Eliza refurbished a small derelict barn at the bottom of her garden into a bright pottery studio creating the perfect space in which to develop her pottery and her business.