Nivedita Raitz von Frentz meets Swiss ceramist Sabine Wittachy who’s made Sri Lanka her home, Pix by Saman Kariyawasam Donning an apron, Sabine Wittachy sits at one of her electric potter’s wheels.

It all begins with a lump of clay. Chris Mottram, Thrower. The clay is shaped on a potter’s wheel, a skill that has been passed down from potter to potter. The vase is sprayed with a surface ...

We can imagine that a lump of wet clay somehow ended ... as Robert Browning put it: 'Time's wheel runs back or stops; potter and clay endure'. This Jomon pot is an extremely important pot.