About
Freyja lives up a precarious track in deepest Wales, surrounded by Narnia-like hills and trees with distant rivers beyond, a world of escape and a world of wildness. Freyja is a potter, a mother, a passionate person. She is also a story teller and her work weaves together the functional with decorative enchantment. Driven by the narrative of ‘The Wind in the Willows’, taking one line and letting her imagination run free, she has used the medium of slipware to create and adorn plates, jugs and teapots for Curator&Maker with her folklorish themes and fantastical figures in flowing lines and lustrous gold. There is an immediacy about Freyja’s work as there is no possibility to rework: it is instant and definite, once you apply your stroke it is permanently there. Freyja describes it as ‘taking a lion for a walk’: you have to be brave, you have to be committed. Freyja started painting on jugs created by her Japanese-trained aunt Tilly Young, who has been making pots for over 30 years. Freyja is still working with Tilly but now also creates her own plates and bowls.
