Belinda Bryce

Kia ora, Belinda Bryce here, I have worked with pottery on and off for over 25 years but full-time now that I am retired. I enjoy moulding a range of unique, mostly jade pottery, featuring one-of-a-kind glazes, funky textures and designs. As an ex-rehab nurse I have a passion for developing functional vessels suitable for people with physical disabilities such as Stroke and Parkinsons patients. I would like to give disabled people the gift of being able to eat and drink out of something beautiful. A lot of them have had their dignity taken from them and this is my way of giving some of that back.

I always had a passion for working with my hands, originally making dough work figurines many years ago, but working with clay in recent years has lifted my creativity to a whole new level. Working with clay and experimenting with glazes has been an exciting journey, with a mixture of utter joy and frustration at times! I moved next to my daughter Mieke who is an artist, and have teamed up with her to create an inspiring rustic home studio/gallery space called Hamani (which is Tahitian for ‘to create with your hands’). I hope you will fall in love with these gorgeous functional vessels; works of art in your hands.