Hello, I'm Jana Döring! I'm a professional potter with my own little workshop near Hannover in Germany, where I produce tableware and other beautiful things. My passion is to create items that are at the same time functional and beautiful.
Pottery is one of the oldest crafts in the world, if not THE oldest. And still it has lost nothing of its fascination over the generations. Before I started my own business, I did a three-year apprenticeship with a pottery master in the south of germany.
Being self-employed has alwas been an important goal in my life. It means freedom to me, although I have to work a lot. Another really important thing for me is to have the whole production chain under my own control. That means, I do everything from ordering the clay, preparing it (by kneading it), throwing pieces, attaching handles, firing and glazing them. I even mix my own glazes following recipes that I developed myself. That took a lot of time and experiments, but is most rewarding in the end.
I sell the products myself on pottery markets all over Germany. In the future, I'd love to be able to move to a larger workshop so that I could also teach lessons in pottery and wheel throwing.