Charlotte Mei

This year, one of my goals is to be more fluid and to embrace outcomes – whatever it may be.

While I am getting there, there’s still a part of me (the subconscious bit) that inevitably wants order amongst the chaos. Sometimes it feels like I’m at the edge of a cliff and my back is pressed up against hard rocks, and I can feel my hair blowing in the wind. Every inch of my body wants to yell “HURL YOURSELF OVER THE EDGE!” and yet my fingers – my fingers are my undoing: they still claw and cling to the safety of familiarity.

So understandably, I was drawn to these illustrations on ceramic by Charlotte Mei, a freelance illustrator, potter and editor based in London, UK; whose lines and unbridled, uncomplicated brush strokes are pure genius in my eyes.

Here’s to a year of learning!