The Trustees of the Adopt a Potter Charitable Trust are delighted to announce the award of their second apprenticeship. This goes to master potter Micki Schloessingk, a renowned maker of wood-fired salt-glaze ceramics, and to apprentice potter Fleen Doran, who graduates this Spring from the University of Wales, Cardiff. Fleen will now spend a year with Micki at her beautiful pottery on the Gower Peninsula.

The first apprenticeship awarded by the Trust on its inception is now drawing to a close, and has been a tremendous success, judging from the feedback from both master potter Jeremy Steward and apprentice Sheila Herring. Sheila has made some lovely mugs, designed by Jeremy, for Adopt a Potter to sell at Earth & Fire Rufford Craft Centre and Art in Clay Hatfield House, so look out for these limited edition mugs if you attend either show.

MICKI WRITES ABOUT WHAT'S IT'S LIKE TO HAVE AN APPRENTICE

Micki Schloessingk and Adopt a Potter's second apprentice Fleen Doran