Woodfired 100 Hours - Vase
Venessa Skye - Middle Pocket Pottery
Functional ware lies at the heart of Venessa’s making. Raised in a Maltese family where life revolved around celebrations with food, friends, and family, she continues this tradition through her ceramics, creating everyday pieces, vases, platters, cups, and teapots, that are meant to be used, loved, and lived with.
Venessa wants people feel a connection to the pieces they use daily, Each vessel is crafted with care, spirit, and intention, inviting a relationship between object and user.
Her larger works are typically vases and cauldrons, often adorned with richly layered surfaces that incorporate a combination of glazes, oxides and some raw with slips, the surface results are dynamic, unique finishes, brought to life through the slow wood firing atmosphere in her kiln at Middle Pocket.
Venessa sees each finished piece as an alchemical process that merges the maker’s hand with the transformative power of fire.
