Our signature square shaped pots are all created in a small home studio located near the River Crouch.
Each piece is hand built from high fire stoneware clay, then hand-scored and hand-painted with precision and attention to detail.
Clay Beirne Pottery has been built from a love of ceramics that we discovered whilst visiting St Ives. What started as a hobby in London back in 2011 grew into Clay Beirne Pottery when we moved to Burnham-on-Crouch. Our small home studio at the bottom of the garden gives us the ability to create pottery that is crafted with love and attention. After exhibiting at ceramic and craft fairs, we realised there was a shared appetite for our aesthetic.
Teresa Clay
After moving to the countryside to start a family, I realised there wasn’t any handmade pottery that would suit the aesthetic I was looking for in my new home. This and my love of geometrics and mid-century pattern led me to create my signature style.
My signature style is square in shape, monochrome in colour and geometric in design. I do occasionally dabble with circular shapes and have been known to add a pop of colour here and there. Each pot is made from hand rolled slabs, then pieced together and decorated by hand. By crafting with my own two hands, I can ensure perfection, as well as create patterns and designs that are unique and special to me.
As a new parent, I enjoy the flexibility and satisfaction that working with clay in my own studio has given me.
I regularly show at London craft markets and it is great to share my passion and designs with like minded people. I’m always looking for new inspiration and enjoy finding new design combinations.
Robert Beirne
As I work full time as a menswear design manager I don’t get into the studio as much as Teresa but when i do I mostly choose to work in black clay. I find working with clay to be very therapeutic and pottery is an escape for me where I can focus solely on the process, closing off the outside world and creating whatever I decide on that particular day.
I love the way black clay fires to a strong matt black colour that enables me to create my designs through mark making or glaze.
Each of my pieces are truly unique and time between affords me to reflect on what I want to create next. I believe in the organic texture of clay and my pottery carries the marks of it's creation on it. The natural, rustic look of each pot makes them all unique and individual and I rarely make the same pot twice.