Lydia Johnson is a practising architect and ceramicist, sharing her time and enthusiasm between both disciplines, and enjoying the creative influence each has on the other.

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Her signature collection, Tessellating Cups, is ongoing testament to these overlapping influences, first developed in 2014 during her Master of Architecture course at Westminster University, and today as a member of Turning Earth Ceramics Studio in Hoxton. The collection shows her obsession with tactility, materiality and duality: on the one hand, as individual, beautiful, functional objects, slip-cast in one motion and dip glazed; on the other hand, combining multiples to create a sensuous, continuous, three-dimensional, dynamic, pattern of material, depth and colour.

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As an emerging artist, Lydia launched ‘Fettle Studio’ in January 2018, as an outlet to combine her love of architecture and ceramics, and pursue small-scale works, professional collaborations and creative endeavours. Over the past couple of years, her work has been featured in a number of publications, by food stylists and in London lifestyle stores. She also exhibited with the Life of Clay exhibition in 2016/17 lead by Grymsdyke Farm, at the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Bristol Architecture Centre.