CRAFTING THE EARTH
Black smoke would have once filled Corvedale valley in the Shropshire Hills. Centuries ago, the land was mined for coal and ironstone and smelted in blast furnaces. Today, nature has reclaimed the landscape and all is green, quiet and clear.
But in these deep folds beneath Wenlock Edge and the Clee Hills, a blaze still burns. It rages in the kiln belonging to potter Isatu Hyde as she fires her latest pottery, and it lights up her very being, her passion for her craft running deep. “From day one I fell in love with it,” she says. “I’ve done something related to pottery every day since.”
“ I love the
