A passion for making bespoke Lighthouses

Lighthousemaker

28 Caedelyn Road

Whitchurch

Cardiff

Wales

CF141BH

+44(0)7427511225

Info@lighthousemaker.net

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Hello, and welcome to my website; feel free to explore and find some inspiration from the pieces that I have made. As a potter by trade, I make the ceramic pieces on a potter's wheel. For some technical pieces that need to be created accurately, a jigger machine to fit metal and glass components, I use a palette of different clays such as stoneware, hearthstone,  white earthenware, and terracotta. Various kinds of wood, such as oak, ash, walnut, and pine. Metal components are made from aluminum, brass, copper, and steel. Glass is used, and sometimes a tiny amount of acrylic, perspex, and plexiglass for small windows. Lighting of Lighthouses uses circuit boards via a plugin 12v mains adapter or, in the case of lamp bases, a mains plug and PAT tested before despatch..

Castle Night Lights

"To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a powerful light inside you!"

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Work in progress Projects

One of my few memories as a child of five was a family holiday visit to Cornwall, United Kingdom. I was standing on the top of a cliff with the security of a Father's hand, looking down at the laughing sound of seagulls flying below me. As I looked, I saw a Lighthouse, and during the visit to that point, there was a store selling all visitor-type memorabilia. There were pottery Lighthouses lamp bases. That memory has never left me, but when I look back as a career potter, I often wonder where my roots started; it was later, as a child, that I made a swan for my mother made out of mud from my nearby park stream, which turned out to be natural clay. I have never been an academic, although my learning powers came much later in life. "Oh my, Jonathan likes to play and use his hands and make things," my School teacher used to say to my Mother at Parent/Teacher meetings. But play is another way of learning, and being creative evolves from that. After leaving School with a handful of GCSE results, I became an apprentice potter at Creigiau Pottery, Cardiff, Wales, where I learned my trade. I set my creative juices and ambition to make realistic Towers and Lighthouses.

It has taken years of trial and error to reach a point where I can feel confident producing pieces to sell. I am still learning various skills to overcome technical hurdles that have hampered me.

I am now ready.