I set up Lillagunilla Ceramic Studio in 2013.

I work with stoneware clay that I hand build and throw into beautiful luminous light holders and sculptural forms for the home and garden. The name of my studio is a tribute to my mother Gunilla who died of breast cancer in 2006. "Lilla" means "little" in my native language Swedish, and as a young girl I was often referred to as the little Gunilla because of the similarities I had to her.

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I grew up in the deep forest of Småland, Sweden, surrounded by spruce trees, moss and dark rivers. As a young girl I played, created stories and found solace there away from normal life and growing up. In nature I could be whoever I wanted and live in my own imaginative world.

My idea of creating lightholders with carved or cut patterns derives from the dark winters I spent there as a child with a house full of candles and tealights lit. They would create reflections on the wall or ceiling and transform a room from ordinary to magical.

I find inspiration in nature and the sky at night. Rugged rocks that has been shaped by time, the landscape of the moon, the symmetry of patterns in the natural world.

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I fire my work outdoors in a pit, barrel or Raku kiln. I paint them with Ferric Chloride solution and place them in tin foil Saggars that I fill with various combustible materials.

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