After completing a degree in Ceramics at Edinburgh College of Art in 1998, Vicky Hageman established her garden studio at her home in Whitstable.
Her time is divided between making small batches of hand thrown ceramics, raising her family, and tending to her allotment. Most of her work is thrown on the potter’s wheel using porcelain clay. Form and function are kept simple. She uses a restrained colour palette; graphic black and white lines of inlaid slip and sgraffito; smooth, tactile glazes in muted colours, mixed by herself from raw ingredients. Work is high fired in an electric kiln.

Vicky makes pots for everyday use. The pieces are fine, yet robust enough to be held, filled, drunk out of and eaten from. She loves to see her pieces become part of everyday living in other’s homes.

Vicky loves the repetitive process of wheel throwing. Over time the forms evolve as they undergo gradual renewal and reinvention, with subtle variations in size, form and glaze finish.

Her work is sold at national ceramic shows, pop-up shops, markets and other events, at open studios and in shops and galleries throughout the UK.