About

Based in Lancaster, Millie Gaia Wagstaff creates contemporary ceramics where function and beauty merge in equal measure. Her illustrative pottery carries a narrative sensibility, drawing on the sun, moon, and stars as recurring motifs alongside swans, birds, and flowers that seem to drift between the earthly and the celestial. Each piece becomes a vessel of memory and meaning, infused with a quiet nostalgia for the familiar while reaching toward the timeless. Wagstaff’s work unfolds as a dialogue between use and contemplation: a cup that tells a story, a vase that carries both water and myth. Here, the decorative and the practical are never opposed but entwined, affirming clay as a medium of both intimacy and transcendence.

If you wish to follow along on the journey with Millie, you can find her on Instagram and Tiktok.