Kirsty Russell, who runs Underpinning in Aberdeen, invited me to run a workshop around something that underpins my practice. I wanted to challenge the way we approach making vessels, and asked all participants to bring something that could act as a lid. We then swapped objects, and made vessels to match the lids. The idea was to think about containment, and reverse the process of creating a pot, which can be so familiar or instinctive.

Left: Made for Kirsty’s publication ‘Underpinning’,