The English Garden

Nature on a Plate

Sitting in the north London studio of ceramicist and artist Zuleika Melluish is like being in the best kind of garden. One where nature and a cleverly thought out planting scheme are gently manipulated and combined to create a space that feels effortless and entirely at ease with itself: wild and abundant but with an underlying sense of order and calm.

The room is filled with her collection of pots, platters, tiles, bowls and beakers, all at different stages of production but each imprinted with the eye-catching patterns of her favourite flowers, foliage and

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