Kate Baxter started out as a painter having studied Fine Art at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She won the East Anglian Open watercolour award in 1991 but soon began to collaborate with her husband, the potter Richard Baxter, on a range of tableware decorated with exuberant depictions of the undersea world of the coral reef. More recently she began designing and hand building her own pots, notably large platters and these rather perky Beaky Jugs. Each piece is treated as an individual ‘canvas’ for a variety of decorative techniques including brushwork, stencilling, printing and scraffito and often returns to the theme of the ‘Enchanted Forest’. The jugs are slab built in white earthenware, decorated with coloured slips and glazed with a lead-free transparent glaze.

Kate lives in Leigh on Sea in Essex and works at Old Leigh Studios.