For top restaurants, the plate has become the star of the show

The Telegraph Magazine

It also makes sense for Lucia Ocejo, the potter in question, because at the heart of this trend’s growth and durability is the relationship  between ceramicists and chefs. Chatting to Ocejo over wet clay as her tortilla plates await their turn in the kiln, I can see the connection. Both chef and potter transform raw materials, using hand, time and fire to create products that look good – and serve a purpose.   

15 artistas latinoamericanos que dejan su huella en Reino Unido

Vogue México

Desde 2018 llegó por azares del destino a la capital de UK, para trabajar con el estudio Crown Works Pottery y crear la vajilla del restaurante KOL. ‘Me lancé a la locura y fue así como empecé mi vida aquí: tuve la suerte de sentirme apoyada. Yo creo que ser latina y mexicana me hace sentir orgullosa, creo que somos muy trabajadores, adaptables y dedicados…

Terrence Higgins Trust

Christie’s Auction House

Two largest of the collection, they are inspired by traditional Oaxaca Pottery while infused and adapted to be thrown on the potter’s wheel by utilising British studio-pottery techniques and high fire technology. For Ocejo, the Aortic vessels work like transplants, extracted from one culture and introduced to another - like hearts given to a foreign body.

Making an Imprint with Sculptor turned Ceramicist Lucia Ocejo

TOAST Magazine

Lucia Ocejo is describing a transformative moment, when she held a Korean chawan, or tea bowl. It was some 300 years old, with uneven lines to its shape and indents from the potter’s fingers, which she covered with her own. “I felt a connection to the maker,” she says, "and, ever since then, I’ve thought of the work I do with more tactility, sometimes leaving the marks of how I made it, too.”

Q&A with Lucia Ocejo

Revolution of Forms

I became acquainted with the British Studio Pottery movement after moving to the United Kingdom in 2018. Since then, I became familiar with the work of Bernard Leach, the “father of the British Pottery movement” and his ideas behind craftsmanship.