Why alone
I kept the studio small on purpose.
People ask when I'll hire help. The honest answer is I don't want to. Every cup that leaves here has been touched only by me, from the raw clay to the second firing. That's not a marketing line — it's the only way I know how to stand behind the work.
It means slower output and longer waitlists. It also means no two pieces are ever quite the same, and I can tell you exactly which firing, which glaze batch, which week any piece in your cupboard came from.
I still think about the studios I trained in — how many hands touched one bowl before it was finished. I wanted the opposite of that.