About me 
I’m Renu, an East London ceramicist making functional pottery inspired by the forms, colours and textures I notice in nature.
Having lived in Japan, New Zealand and Spain, and now being back home in London, what strikes me is how drawn we are to the natural world, wherever we are. Perhaps because we are not separate from nature, but part of it.
That idea shapes my work, from the reds and ambers of autumn leaves and lichen growing across stone to the teal-blue shades of the Mediterranean and the organic forms I return to in clay.
Being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in my thirties changed the way I think about time and the everyday. It made me realise how much of life is made up of ordinary moments, rather than the big occasions we tend to wait for.
I started thinking more about the objects that make those moments, the mug you reach for every morning, the bowl you always choose, the things you use without really thinking about them.
For me, pottery is a way of giving those everyday rituals a little more care. Life is too short to save the nice things for special occasions.