Normacot designer Joanna Dawidowska launches new business

Joanna Dawidowska, of DCeramics

CERAMIC maker and designer Joanna Dawidowska is embarking on another chapter in her career with the launch of a new business.

Her company DCeramic has secured a deal to produce a range of tiles for Two Bad Mice Publishers, featuring artwork by Anita Jeram, who illustrated the much-loved childrens storybook Guess How Much I Love You.

Now Joanna hopes DCeramic can help other well-known brands expand their ranges with decorative tiles featuring their signature designs.

It comes after Joanna moved to the aptly named Furnace Road, in Normacot, from Stoke Business Village where, as a freelance artist, her Dawidowska Ceramics venture was based.

Joanna, who unveiled the Two Bad Mice range at the Retail Spring Fair in Birmingham last week, said: I just had this dream to open up a tile shop.

I have a range of my own, called Delft, and I also produce tiles featuring other designs. But the aim is to work with well-established brands also and produce a product for them featuring their designs.

Joannas passion for ceramics began in Poland where she studied ceramic art and sculpture before moving to the UK to further her studies, including completing a degree in 3D design ceramics at Staffordshire University.

She went on to collaborate on a number of ceramic projects, most recently leading the team of makers in Stoke-on-Trent for the Paul Cummins Ceramics Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red project, producing some 413,000 poppies towards the art installation at the Tower of London.

As well as working with other brands, DCeramic also produces tiles for antique and building restoration, for replacing missing or broken tiled inserts on heritage fireplaces, and bespoke and limited edition tiles for high-end kitchen design companies.

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