Briar Monro designs and produces beautiful, hand-crafted pottery in her studio in Parua Bay, Whangārei, Aotearoa (New Zealand). Her elegant forms are inspired by Japanese wood-firing, mid-century aesthetics and our natural environment. Described as ‘elegant and earthy’ her teapots, bowls, vessels, cups and other functional forms capture the layers and alchemy of our ever evolving planet.

“The greatest influence on my work is our natural environment. Everything comes back to this. I’m interested in how my work can bring our awareness to this – to how inseparable we are to our planet, that ceramic materials are the same building blocks as our bodies, and that if we listen to these natural processes we will better understand our place, our lives”.