Sarah Lord Taylor

I think I never enjoyed dates and things like that.

So wars and guns and all of that stuff, not interested.

But when you've got like,

These people were here and they were eating this and they were clothing themselves in this.

And you've got objects with fingerprints on and you can start to think about stories.

It's the real people doing real everyday things, not the kings or the queens and all of that.

That's what I love so much about what we do is because we're looking into that everyday life of real people.

And I love that.

Yeah, so no guilt, no guilt to anyone who blew up something in the kiln.

Yes, definitely.

But I do also have clays that I hate to work with, but they're really functional as well.

I made dad a gift of a little figure of a horse and rider, and I put lots of paper into it because the paper sort of sits inside the clay and almost creates a skeleton that means it holds together more easily and isn't going to snap because when clay's dried out, it's so brittle.

It's very, very fine.

So it's absolutely horrible to work with.

It's a bit like...

you know when blue tack gets hot and it gets kind of like that sort of stretchy kind of sticky

yeah, it's like that to work with.

So it's horrible and also brilliant to work with.

So yes, I sort of, I hate it and love it at the same time.

And there was a horrible moment where he came into the workshop very quickly.