Moira Goodall

Moira's vessels are contemplative and tactile, strongly influenced by a sense of place, with her inspiration drawn from the Essex coastal marshes and soft estuary landscape where she lives. 

Using hand building techniques, such as pinching and coiling, with a few basic tools, Moira builds her vessels one coil at a time, controlling the shape as it grows slowly and steadily. Soft coloured slips are then applied in layers before she either burnishes with a stone, or adds a texture to the surfaces. No glaze is used. 

After an initial bisque firing the vessels then receive a secondary firing in sawdust. Moira's smoke firing technique has developed over the past twenty years, refining this low firing process, and developing her own masking methods, to create pattern and energy in the surface. The layering of the coloured slips, the masking and the depth of the sawdust firings, from light to dark, allows her to set the tone of each piece.

Moira is a selected member of the Society of Designer Craftsmen, the Suffolk Craft Society and the Craft Potters Association and her ceramics have featured in galleries and exhibitions across the UK and beyond.

Care instructions

Please be aware that low fired work is not water proof and it is recommended to keep smoke fired work out of strong or direct light