Rows of handmade cups, tumblers and bowls in brown and cream glazes, arranged on white shelves

Est. 2025 Brighton

ceramics

Small-batch cups, tumblers and bowls, made by hand in a Brighton studio.

The work

Thrown, glazed, and fired one at a time

Every piece starts on the wheel and is shaped, trimmed and finished by hand — which means no two are quite the same. I work mostly in warm, layered glazes: iron-rich browns pooling into cream, the odd deep black-blue, always left a little unpredictable so the kiln gets the final say.

I make what I'd actually want to use: mugs with a good weight in the hand, tumblers for tea, coffee or matcha, bowls that earn a place on the table rather than the shelf.

Unglazed bisque-fired cups and bowls lined up on a workshop table, ready for glazing

Bisque-fired and waiting for glaze

In stock now

Currently available

Each piece is one of one. Once it's gone, it's gone — though there's usually something similar coming out of the next kiln.

Tumbler

Iron brown / cream moon

£18

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Tumbler

Tenmoku drip

£18

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Small bowl

Cobalt / black

£—

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Small handmade cup with iron brown glaze breaking to cream, white interior

Small cup

Iron brown / cream

£—

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Medium cup

Burnt amber

£—

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Medium handmade cup with iron brown glaze breaking to oatmeal speckle, white interior

Medium cup

Iron brown / oatmeal

£—

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Medium handmade cup with iron brown glaze and a cream patch, white interior

Medium cup

Iron brown / cream patch

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Medium handmade cup with ash grey speckled glaze and a dark iron rim, white interior

Medium cup

Ash grey / iron rim

£—

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Medium cup

Amber speckle

£—

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Medium handmade cup with tenmoku glaze and pale cream drips, white interior

Medium cup

Tenmoku / cream drip

£—

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Large handmade cup with iron red glaze breaking to ash speckle, white interior

Large cup

Iron red / ash speckle

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More pieces being added shortly — this section fills out as new work comes out of the kiln.

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Nigel behind the nigelb ceramics stall at a Brighton market, holding two handmade mugs

The maker

About nigel

I'm Nigel — I make pottery in Brighton, mostly evenings and weekends, mostly because I can't quite stop.

I came to clay later than most people who end up obsessed with it. What hooked me was the bit nobody warns you about: the amount you don't control. You can centre the clay, pull the wall, get the shape you were after — and then the glaze and the kiln do whatever they're going to do. Every piece that comes out is a small negotiation between what I planned and what actually happened.

I still find that the best part. Every mug stamped with my name underneath is one I've thrown, trimmed, glazed and fired myself — start to finish, no two identical.

nigelb ceramics stall at a Brighton market, with mugs, bowls and tumblers laid out for sale

Come and say hello

Find me at a market, or get in touch

Next market

Brighton Makers Market

Date and time to be confirmed — check Instagram for the latest

Get in touch

hello@nigelbceramics.com @nigelb.ceramics