Rachel Barker Meadow Flower Meadow Flower continues the long tradition of combining botanical drawings with ceramics Rachel Barkers beautiful tinted sketches add a fresh simplicity to this much loved decorative style Toast and tea a marriage made in heaven Behind the scenes All our ceramics start as things we need in the kitchen or around the house I jot down ideas and sketches then I make them up in my workshop so we cna try them out for ourselves I sketched flowers growing wild in the meadows and fields around village I love their slender structure their tiny intricate flowers transformed into seed cases of countless shapes and forms with pungent scent and names their meaning long forgotten We live in the depths of rural shropshire and although my work isnt what youd call country the visual richness all around feeds into my design work A lot is often said about inspiration