Meet the team ...

Pete Rogers  trained as a marine engineer, working his apprenticeship in Swan Hunter shipyards in Newcastle. He has just completed an MA in metalwork from Sheffield. Pete's woven vessels are amazing, and his automata and kinetic sculptures are unique. In schools Pete works with DT, but has experience in Early Years and the outdoors

Alex Hallowes had a career in community theatre before getting her degree in silversmithing from Camberwell College. She is a certified teacher of PMC and Artclay, and she likes to use unexpected materials in her work. Her MA is in Arts Education and she has just started her EdD. She has a particular interest in the Early Years and storytelling.

Poja ... well, she's just a very boring cat who sleeps a lot. We got her from a rescue centre, and she is still pretty nervous - although she is an ace vole catcher...

Mike - pronounced MeeKay - when we got her as a small bundle of fluff, our friend Hiroshi, saw her and said - ah, Mike - which is Japanese for '4 colours' - and so she was named. She is sassy, aloof, loves ambushing Poja, and insists on being taken for a walk everyday - a real cat, in fact.

Welban House is a very special place. It used to be 3 cottages for the workers in the claypits, and it sits comfortably on the bank of the Humber - we truely have an xceptional view