Kathryn Cain Design

Pink Seaweed Gallery will be staying open late this Saturday for the Christmas Tractor Run!! Should be fabulously festive with all their great local goodies, including lots of my lovely porcelain jewellery and decorations!!

Thank you so much everyone who came to the Nollick Artisan Fair yesterday. It was such a brilliantly festive atmosphere and a great way to finish my Christmas Markets for this year!!

Thank you too to for organising such a fabulously festive event and .iom for being such brilliant hosts!!

Nollick Artisan Fair!! All set at .iom in the Market Hall!

This is my last Christmas Market and I have lots more of my Seal and Puffin Decorations fresh out of the kiln so come and say hi 🎄😁

Some gorgeous work at the Pink Seaweed Gallery in Ramsey!

Oh wow! Just want to say a great big thank you to everyone who came down to the Laxey Christmas Market this weekend!! Thank you for every smile, lovely comment and purchase. It means so much to me as a maker 😊

What a fabulous event and an absolute credit to all the organisers. Special mention to for providing such a magical venue and making us all feel so welcome and festive. And to for your patience, fantastic organisation and for entertaining us with your beautiful, tiny handmade automatons.

And if you weren't able to make this Fair, don't worry, I have one last Christmas market this Sunday!

The Nollick Artisan Fair
📍 Noa Market Hall, Douglas
🗓 Sunday 3/11
🕘 9am to 3pm

Come for a browse over 3 floors of the beautiful Market Hall and stay for brunch!!

iom

Day 2 of the Laxey Village Christmas Market!

It might be dull and drizzly outside, but it's festive and bright in and the Pavilion!

Here are some Christmassy seagulls to add a bit of colour to your day ♥️

Laxey Christmas Market!! All set at and ready to go!

Come and say hi 🎄😁

If you're in the UK, a great place to buy my handmade pottery is through Folksy.com , and this weekend it's their Craftmas Market event and I'm celebrating 🥳!

Go to my Folksy shop ( 🔗 in bio) where you can once again order my bespoke Christmas Seal Decorations for a limited time only. And just for this weekend they are at a reduced price!!

And as a special treat, everything in my shop will be Free Postage to the British Isles this weekend 🎉

If you're on the Island this weekend it's the Laxey Village Christmas Fair 🎄!!

A fantastic festive event across the whole village.

See Father Christmas, munch on delicious treats and peruse some great makers for your Christmas shopping.

Find me here:
📍 Pavilion
🗓️ 25 and 26/11
🕙 10-4pm

With lots of my unique handmade pottery.

This week is all about prepping for this weekend's market and it's a big one!! The fabulous Laxey Village Christmas Market!!

If you've never been, maybe this year's the time to give it a go. Taking over the whole village, this really is the Christmas Market to check out.

I'll be in the beautiful Pavillion along with many other makers and artists with the last of this season's Fuchsia Pots and my Manx Scenes Pots.

These drawings are so cool!

And while you're down at The Square, Castletown , their Christmas Curiosities experience is well worth a look - they have a model train running around the room 🚂🎄

This coming Sunday! 100 drawings affordable art show, this show is very much in the vain of my previous Vikings of man show. each drawing is a humorous take on one of "themselves" the Viking show sold out, so if you want one of these I recommend attending the opening. each drawing is £35 each. I hope to see you all there.

Such a beautiful shop full of handmade treasure!

Pink Seaweed Gallery

My seal decorations have been soo popular at the last few events (they are rather cute!). So I'm very busy making more for Saturday, but there are still going to be fairly limited numbers of them.

So how do you make sure you get one??

If you're on the Isle of Man you can ask me to put one aside for you (send me a DM).
OR they are also stocked in the following places:

Ramsey - The Pink Seaweed Gallery
Douglas - Manx Museum
Castletown - Christmas Curiosities at The Square and Art Vault
Peel - Manx Wildlife Trust Shop and the House of Manannan

If you're in the UK, you can contact me direct or check out my Folksy.com page (🔗in bio).


#

.seaweed .castletown

Monday morning and I'm back in the workshop and it all starts with this - a lump of wet clay.

One question I was asked a lot over the weekend was "Did you make all this?" It's an understandable question, being as we are surrounded by so much that isn't handmade.

So it's so important to let people know that "Yes! Everything you can see was once only an idea in my head and now it's out in the world, an object that I made with my own hands. Unique and beautiful, cute or fun. A small piece of art bringing a smile and with it a little warmth and light on a gloomy day".

The beauty of handmade - thanks for the smiles!!

Swipe for a bit more of the process and some finished pieces 😊

Wow, what a weekend!

Thanks everyone, it's been so wonderful having all your support and I hope you enjoyed getting all Christmassy as much as I have 🎄🌟🎄!

Now it's time for a busy week making more lovely pots before the Laxey Christmas Fair, where you'll be able to find me in the Pavillion.

Ta-taa for now 👋

All set up at Ballerkermeen High School for the Hospice Christmas Fair!

Here until 3pm with lots of my best selling handmade porcelain Christmas cuties.

So come and say hello 👋!




.im

Well that's me packed up for the day!!

Thank you everyone who came down to the event today! Your support means such a lot, whether it's by having a chat, doing a really good "awww he's soo cute" at one of my seal decorations or making a purchase!

Thanks also to the team at !

Have a lovely evening, time for some mulled wine for me now 😊

All set up at King William's College Christmas Market! You can find me in the King's Court Theatre.

Here until 2pm with lots of my lovely unique handmade ceramics.

So come down, have a browse and say hi 😊.




.im

If you want to see me and my ceramics in person I'll be out and about this weekend at two lovely festive events with many other gorgeous makers and creatives!

Here's me at the Christmas Fair with one of my larger Manx Scenes pots in case you don't know what I look like 👋😊!

In the South on Saturday for the King William's College Christmas Market:
📍 KWC, King's Court Theatre
🗓️ Saturday 18/11
🕚 11-2pm

And while you're down South, why not make a day of it and take in .castletown where, as well as the resident gorgeous small businesses, there is also the magical festive shopping experience 'Christmas Curiosities'!! Lots of wonderful pieces to bring joy 😊

Then Douglas on Sunday for the Hospice Christmas Fair:
📍 Ballerkermeen High School
🗓️ Sunday 19/11
🕙 10-3pm

I'll have lots of my unique handmade ceramics with me at both events for you to get a good look at ☺️

Did you know that you can buy my handmade heirloom Christmas decorations from my Folksy page? This is especially handy for those of you in the UK or further afield!

I have a lovely little selection including my Christmas Seal, Gull, Basking Shark, Dolphin and Beach Hut designs.

They all come tied with a red satin ribbon and nestled in a recyclable gift box.

These are perfect as a special decoration for your tree which you'll love taking out year after year or as a fun stocking filler for the wildlife lover in your life 😊.

Go to folksy.com/shops/kathryncaindesign

So a lovely Facebook comment this week reminded me that the first Manx Scenes pots I made were pure porcelain white. My aim was that when they were lit up with a candle they would come to life depicting a classic scene in a warm flickering glow.

My first Manx Scenes pot design was for Peel. It's a bit of nostalgia for when I lived there and loved to take an evening stroll around the Castle and harbourside.

Here's an example of a white pot of Peel glowing. Swipe to see a finished one in blue and another being made last night.

Let me know which style you like best!

If you'd like to order one send me a message on Inst or FB, or email me at [email protected] 😊

More work in progress this week - my signature porcelain brooches themed on creatures around the Isle of Man and another Swallows Over the Sea pot.

Busy busy busy!!

Making orders today of my Manx Scenes pots ready for Christmas 🎄.

The first is Port Erin with the dramatic Bradda Head sweeping to the sea, the lovely beach huts and lighthouse on the beach.

The second is of a boat journey around the southernmost point of the island taking in the Burroo or Drinking Dragon, the Sugar Loaf and Chicken Rock Lighthouse.

The seabirds are wheeling in the sky and the sun is bright.

These ones will now dry slowly before they have their first firing. After which they will be decorated with cobalt and glaze fired to stoneware.

Swipe to see a picture of how they'll look once they're finished 😊💙




Visit Isle of Man Discover isle of man Culture Vannin Unesco Biosphere Isle of Man

And here it is!!

Opening today for the festive season, a delightful new shopping experience at the heart of historic Castletown.

Here you'll find a lovely selection of my pottery along with many other fantastic local artists, designers and makers.

Opening today for the festive season 🎄

The Square, Castletown The Square is a Hub of Indie Commerce in the Heart of Castletown, offering retail space to local ind

If you'd like to order one of my Manx Scenes pots in time for Christmas you've still got time!!

Choose between Peel, Port Erin, Drinking Dragon or Douglas. All individually handmade in porcelain, decorated with cobalt and either fully glazed or glazed only on the inside, your choice.

They feature the name of the place they portray in Manx as standard, but can be done without if preferred.

Each pot is £52 (plus postage if needed).

If you'd like to order yours, send me a direct message or email me at [email protected].

The Manx Wildlife Trust Shop has a lovely display of my work amongst many other treasures you can find there!

Fancy a puffin decked out in starry finery for your Christmas display, a pastel dolphin to remind you of Moonlight and Starlight or a cheery seal brooch to make you smile on a Monday morning!

They have lots of work here from fellow Isle of Man artists, a perfect little shop for a pleasurable gift shopping experience 😊



Manx Wildlife Trust Fiddler Crab Crafts Nicola Dixon

It's now two weeks until my next Christmas Fair, but if you can't wait that long or you can't get to a fair here are a few ways to find my work:

There's my shop on Folksy.com/shops/kathryncaindesign

You can send me a DM or email me at [email protected].

Or you can visit one of the gorgeous local shops and galleries that stock my work alongside other brilliant local makers and artists.

In the North you have the glorious .seaweed Gallery in the heart of Ramsey.

In the East you have the Manx Museum in Douglas and the in Laxey.

In the West, it's the House of Manannan and, from just last month, the gorgeous gift shop, both in Peel.

And lastly, in the South something very special is coming soon - I'll let you know more as soon as I can!!

These are lovely places on the Island where you can enjoy your shopping experience . Here you can buy beautifully designed and crafted pieces by Isle of Man designers and makers. Some of these shops support our local wildlife and our fascinating heritage. All of them support our wonderful way of life. So how about giving them a go for some of your Christmas shopping this year, you are sure to pick up something really special.

Fuchsia season is nearly over for this year in my garden, so to celebrate these beautifully delicate fairy flowers here's a couple of my Fuchsia Pots.

I've only made one of these in the larger size as I wanted to see how well it worked. I have to say it brings me so much joy to look at the finished result! I can't wait to see it glowing and gorgeous with fairy lights in it after dark ✨😊

Send me a message if you're interested in these new pots. The standard size is £52 and the large is £195.

I've been experimenting with glazing the inside of my Manx Scenes pots to see how the cobalt looked on the impressed design when left unglazed but still lovely and smooth.

The pot on the right in the first picture is fully glazed, the one on the left has no glaze over the cobalt.

Gives it a slightly different blue, and a sharper look to the design.

Hmm, not sure which look I like best, let me know what you think!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

I'm absolutely blown away by the love shown for our pottery Christmas Fair!!

Thank you to everyone who came down to see us, have a lovely chat and share our love of all things clay at the Fifth Manx Potters Fair!

It means so much to us all 🥰

All set up at the Villa Marina Arcade for the Christmas Fair!

We'll be here until 3pm. There are so many beautiful ceramics to look at, so come down and say hi 😊.

Working on my new swallow design led me to make this lovely little porcelain bud vase with the impressed design picked out in dusky pink.

I think it's so effective, I love it!

What do you think?

🎁

While I wait for the kiln to cool down with my second glaze firing of the week, I thought I'd share a few if the lovely pieces that came out of the first firing.

First up, this cute little porcelain fuchsia bud vase!

This will be coming with to the Manx Potters Fair tomorrow, or send me a message if you're interested ☺️

📍 Villa Marina Arcade
🗓️ 4/11
🕚 11 - 3pm

Very happy to be able to let you know you can now find my work in the gorgeous Manx Wildlife Trust Shop in Peel!!

Yay!!

Its the 1st of November and that means… Christmas is coming 😏🎄 If you’re an early bird then our gift-shop in the heart of Peel has lots of fabulous, sustainable christmas gift ideas waiting for you, all of which support wildlife and habitats on the Isle of Man! 😍 Open 10:30-5 Monday - Saturday and 1 - 4:30 on Sunday #ManxNature #TeamWilder

Some of the Manx Potters you can see at the Manx Potters' Christmas Fair 4 Nov 2023 on Saturday at the Villa Marina Arcade. Vici Blackburn Anna Clucas Fine Art Carol Pooley Kathryn Cain Design Susie Heckles Design Faye Christian Ceramics Linda Quirk Celines Ceramics Helen Almond Ceramics Colleen Corlett Design Janet Corran Art Nat Wiseman

Getting very excited for this event!! Eeek😁

This Saturday - The Manx Potters' Christmas Fair 4 Nov 2023 at the Villa Marina Arcade Douglas
11am-3pm with Kathryn Cain Design

Fantastic day yesterday at the .vaaish Early Christmas Market!

Thank you to the organisers for such a brilliant event and to everyone who popped by had a chat or bought a piece. So lovely to get the chance to talk to people about my work and hear your amazing comments about it, thanks everyone!

Next market is the Manx Potters Fair!

🗓️ Saturday 4 November
🕚 11 - 3pm
📍 Villa Marina Arcade