Rowena Hamilton

@row-hamilton-pots

Stoneware potter based in the High Peak, UK. Clay College diploma 2022-24. Often also doing stuff with museums. www.rowenahamilton.works

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Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· 22d

Confirmed shows this autumn: Wardlow Mires Pottery Festival, 12-13 September Potfest in the City - Glasgow, 27 - 29th November Keep an eye on here or join my mailing list (link in bio) to find out about other events TBC for later this year.

Stripy leaves made from pottery on an old wooden workbench surface.

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· 29d

In which I made a breakthrough with my display and met lots of wonderful makers and customers. I even won a prize, and that (as far as I can remember anyway?!) has literally never happened to me before, it made me feel like a giddy kid😄 Thanks to Peak District Artisans for the support 🙏

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Jul 13

Pleased and proud to say I'll be exhibiting with the @peakdistrictartisans for the first time this weekend. It's the annual summer showcase in Buxton which is their flagship event for the year. It's Saturday and Sunday in the Octagon at Pavilion Gardens from 11-5 on Saturday and 11-4 Sunday.

A flyer for the summer showcase of the Peak District Artisans

two footed dishes with a white and a black glaze and weave textured surfaces

A heavily textured white jug handmade from slabs of ceramic

A weave textured white jug handmade from slabs of ceramic

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Jul 6

That was yesterday and this is today! So many thank-yous to the @kilnceramicfair team for their hard work to pull off a brilliant new fair in a stunning location. Thanks of course to everyone who helped keep this potter's dream alive by buying a pot, and to those who engaged and chatted too:)

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Jun 29

Busy prepping pots for Kiln Ceramic Fair this weekend! Come along and see these new coffee and tea mugs and beakers, fresh from the wood kiln. I'll even have them the right way up by then;) Kiln Fair is a new ceramics fair at the stunning Masson Mills UNESCO World Heritage Site in Derbyshire, UK.

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Apr 20

Over BH weekend 23-25 May, I'm taking part in High Peak Open Studios trail (New Mills - venue 3) and Peak District Artisans Spring Trail (venue 12). My studio is too wee to open, so I'll be selling alongside a handful of peers in Providence Church on Mellor Road, New Mills. See website for details!

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Apr 13

Fresh pots from the wood kiln coming with me to the Spring Fair, Sunday 10th May, 10-4pm at Torr Vale Mill, New Mills. Hope to see you there!

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Mar 2

This weekend sees the very welcome return of Manchester Ceramics Fair at The Whitworth Art Gallery. So many great potters in attendance, check out their feed to see an alphabetical grid of all the lovely marvellous potters and their wares. #ceramics #pottery #ceramicsfair #handmadepottery

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Dec 15

It's not too late for a last minute gift purchase from my shop! Link in bio. I've a few items still in stock and I am posting orders (in UK only, sorry) tomorrow and Wednesday so you'll receive them in time for Christmas. #lastminute #handmadegifts #pottery #tableware #shopsmall

White handmade mug with gentle tan decoration in the shape of an 'X'. There is a spray of green and red rosehips behind the mug.

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Dec 8

This Saturday will be my last fair of the season - the first ever Stockport Ceramics Fair organised by the wonderful @merseywayworkshop The fair will be in Stockroom’s upstairs studio, with festive workshops, live music, mince pies, and mulled wine! Also, my webshop has a few items still available!

Poster for Stockport Ceramics Fair with a photo of a tiny jug with flowers in it

Photo of a rounded brown and pink vase with a spray of reddish foliage inside

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Dec 4

This Sunday, I'll be joining friends from @manchesterceramicscollective @trackbrewingcotaproom for a Christmas pottery sale with added pizza, cake and beer (and cheer;) A wintry night out at Track's Tap Room is a treat anyway, but this event promises to be really special.

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Dec 3

Saturday 6th, I'm taking part in the Bell House Pottery Winter Sale. This is the Dulwich studio where I was potter-in-residence last August. They'll have one-off samples and finished pieces for sale, all made during or as a result of my residency. 11am - 6pm, Bell House Pottery, SE21 7BG

Hand-built stoneware jug, glazed in a cream and tan glaze with a basket-weave texture impressed upon the surface.

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Dec 2

This Saturday I'll be at Long Eaton Art Room for Toasted ceramic fair! Join me and about 20 other potters/ceramicists/sculptors for some extremely jolly Christmas gift shopping:) Plus good food and live music! The event supports the Long Eaton Art Room, a cherished local community arts centre

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Nov 27

This weekend I'm doing the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair - Online Gift Edition. It's a curated online shop window for high quality craft. Newsletter subscribers get an email on Friday morning with a link to the preview event that starts Friday evening from 6pm. Now is the time to subscribe!

Tan coloured jug with basket weave surface and dried wild carrot stems.

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Nov 24

@MakersattvMill is THIS SUNDAY! How did that happen? Looking forward to the festive vibes:) Just one more firing to do this year tomorrow. Shout out to @peakpotters for letting me use their kiln as mine had a pre-Christmas fail! Hopefully be bringing most of those kiln-fresh pots with me on Sunday.

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Nov 12

NEW EVENT ADDED!!! Manchester's newest food and artisan market in the Campfield Market on Liverpool Rd opened last weekend to bring people back into the beautiful market hall now refurbed. It looks flipping amazing and I am beyond excited to have picked up a stand here this Saturday!

Flyer for Campfield Market Saturday Market

Heavily textured lidded jar being used as a vase with wild flowers and its lid propped against the side of the jar.

Stack of bowls and plates with texture wrapping around the outside edge of the rims.

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Nov 10

My next in person event is Makers at the Mill Winter Fair, Sunday 30th November. It's a lovely do in the Torr Vale Mill in New Mills' actual canyon, very cool! The best local craft and food stalls, a great place to get your festive shopping wrapped up (we're ok to make festive puns now right?)

Four faceted beakers is shades of white through pink to orange, resting among autumn leaves against a low woven fence.

A woodfired mug with a peachy coloured glaze and a pile of rosebuds next to it

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Nov 5

I've got plant pots and planters in @budgardencentre.bsky.social 's container shop! They're impermeable to water so won't leave marks on your windowsills if you use them for houseplants, and they won't be frost damaged if you use them outside:)

A selection of elegant hand-thrown white and brown plant pots with circles and chevron decoration on them

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Nov 3

The online edition of Great Northern Events' long-running high end craft fair. Over this weekend a curated listing of 70-ish makers is gathered into one site so you can browse easily, then buy work from our webshops (link in bio). I've made a special selection of thrown and hand-built pieces:)

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Oct 24

Next up I'll be at beautiful Pavilion Gardens in Buxton for their Artist and Designer Fair, 8th - 9th November from 10-16:30 both days. I've got fresh new pots from the wood kiln to show, hope to see you there! #pottery #craftmarket #handmadegifts #stoneware #ceramics #madeinderbyshire

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Mar 9

Still banging the drum for Manchester Ceramics Fair next weekend! I’ll be bringing fresh spring-y pots:) And really looking forward to seeing all the other potters’ work and having a good old chat (about pots mainly, obsessed much!?)

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Mar 3

If you find yourself in MCR on the 15/16th March there’s this fabulous ceramics fair on! 50+ amazing potters and sculptors! Come and see us and chat abt pots:)

Flyer for Manchester Ceramics Fair. Text reads ‘showcasing over 50 ceramic makers. The grand hall at the whitworth, Oxford road, Manchester, M15 6ER.

Saturday 15 March 12-5
Sunday 16 March 10-3:30

Free entry

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Jan 29

This is not about pots. But check my freshly repaired trainers!? So proud:)

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Jan 26

I took 2 years out, back to school to learn my craft. Such an amazing experience. Now, I’m working 7 days across 2 freelance jobs & my pottery business. It’s amazing though how even tired and under pressure, I still love this more than anything! No one ever said it would be easy to follow a dream:)

A slab of clay with little white bone stamps across its surface. There’s a rolling pin and a plastic tub of slip in the background, and on the studio shelves a couple of unglazed mugs and lemon juicers.

A porcelain footed bowl, not yet fired, very squishy and soft-looking. It has stamps of crossed bones like memento mori and other little motifs across its outer surface. It’s on a shelf in a studio with some bags of powder and half made pots behind it.

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Jan 17

Niche post for wood-kiln geeks. Look how rotten steel goes after 18years under the firebox of a kiln! It’s actually held up pretty well:) New steelwork gone in and just a few more maintenance jobs to do and can have a firing, phew! Wood firing is hard work, but I love it all.

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Jan 9

Opening Saturday! Bevere Gallery's Graduate Showcase including some of my very gifted cohort from Clay College. I'll be there to chat about pots;) Excited to see new pots from old friends and work by other new potters I've not yet met. PV: 11/1/25, 10-4, Bevere Gallery, Worcester, WR3 7RQ

Three footed beakers, in a dark coloured clay with an orange brown shino glaze. One of them is on its side so you can see the hand-carved pentagonal foot ring.

A big pinky-brown wood-fired vase with subtle slip decoration using wax resist brushwork and scraffito.

A rounded wood-fired vase with wax resist slip decoration and a thin green glazed rim.

A dramatically lit white soda-fired vase on a black background with stamps and scratches on the surface revealing strong shadows. There's textured soda glass covering the top section of the pot and a warm beige flash of the bare clay body on the bottom section.

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Jan 5

So… if you are interested in signing up to my newsletter (then thank you) but if you are outside the UK and also on Instagram you can help me test a glitch I am having. Pls try to sign up for my newsletter through link in bio in Instagram @row_hamilton and let me know if it doesn’t work?

A shelf of pots in my tiny studio slowly drying in the cold damp winter weather.

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Jan 5

Last year was busy and wonderful. I set up my business and started selling my pots! But, am having some trouble with IG blocking international sign ups to my newsletter and need help from anyone who is a) on Instagram and b) outside the UK. If that’s you… 1/2

Pictures of people having fun outside and a lot of pots by masters of Japan and UK in exhibitions I visited.

More pictures of people having fun outside, some pictures of me and my pots and a green crab in a rock pool.

Woodkilns, more of my pottery, my coursemates and I graduating in London. More people having fun outside!

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Dec 12

A day in the life. Collect the wood, saw the wood, split the wood, stack the wood… Also today, process fallen tree and make brash piles for wildlife. Ooph, tired now! Back for more next week. Hopefully I get time to actually make some pots soon!?

End on view of a wood stack with more stacks of wood beyond.

Rowena Hamilton@row-hamilton-pots· Dec 7

Just putting a couple of pictures of me and my pots here while I work out what I’m doing with this new platform! Studio potters of the UK (and everywhere else) I am looking for you!?