Sacraments are outward expressions of inner grace, a way of acknowledging the Divine in human experience. In many African traditions, pots created by older women serve this purpose. They are practical as well as sacred and ritualistic containers of human experience: birth, death, marriage, medicine, and ancestral stories. Across Indigenous communities (including the UK's own lost Celtic tradition), various highly adorned objects and costumes are also employed to bring into connection the human and Divine. As a therapist, spiritual director, and creative practitioner, this resonates deeply with me. In each of these spaces, I seek to discover and create sacramental containers for my own and others' lives. They are places of exploration, curiosity, and humility, containers of both life and divinity, connecting heaven and earth: holy ground.

Annette Kaye is a spiritual director, creator, therapist and ceramisist, using the ideas of each to inspire conversation and fuel her work.

We're very happy and proud to have Kaye show with us as an artist and friend who visited when we first opened our doors to now becoming an extremely valued and special person to us. Kaye exemplifies our ethos: "when life is very challenging, asking what did I learn, where is the gift of that last most painful piece, the piece that should make me doubt, knock me down, that's my fuel."