Inspired by her grandmother’s Willow Pattern collection, Rhian Malin continues the long historic tradition of hand-painting porcelain with cobalt-blue decoration. Her elegant wheel-thrown porcelain vessels are the chosen surface, created to stretch this tradition into the 21st century.

Taking a mathematical approach to applying each geometric design, each vessel is painstakingly divided up and mapped out by eye to highlight their tapering forms, resulting in a contemporary take on the much loved, and often nostalgic, combination of blue and white.

Having previously won support from the Crafts Council UK through their prestigious Hothouse Programme in 2016, she has since gone on to be awarded: Highly Commended Newcomer at Ceramic Art London (2018), 'Best Ceramics' at the Contemporary Craft Festival (2017) among other awards and has exhibited in Taiwan, Japan & America.

Rhian graduated from Camberwell College of Art in 2014 with a BA (Hons) degree in Three Dimensional Design.