Why I . . . make pottery

For Charlotte Lindsay, making beautiful pottery is not about perfection. In fact, it’s the imperfect pots she creates that she prefers to keep.“It’s the nice stuff I make that people want to buy or that I give as gifts. It’s the weird rejects, the things that don’t quite work, that I like to keep,” says Lindsay, a clinical research fellow at Queen Mary University London and an emergency medicine trainee who is currently doing a doctorate.“I still have my first pots—there are a lot of very small vases and awkwardly sized mugs. They’re not very functional. But things that don’t come out as planned can still be beautiful,” she says.Lindsay finds pottery “a bit like meditating.” “I throw a lump of clay into the middle of the potter’s wheel and concentrate on what I’m making. I become so absorbed I don’t think about anything else,” she says.Lindsay has always liked…
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