If you display your ‘Nation of Shopkeepers’ collection by wall hanging them, you can do it in style with one of our purpose made frames.

Small Beech Effect Frame

Choose from two sizes and two finishes, designed to suit both traditional and modern interiors.

The Mahogany frame has a dark blue ‘night sky’ effect background, the Beech effect frame comes with a soft grey interior.  These backgrounds are made from loop fabric, so you can safely and easily hold your ceramics in place using sticky back velco, and when you want to change your display, you can put different ceramics in place in seconds!

Medium Mahogany Frame

The internal height (the size of the fabrid background)  of our frames is 265mm (10.5″) whichever size you choose.  The internal width of the small size frame is 380mm (15″) and of the medium frame is 575mm (22.75″)

To order your frames now visit our shop or click here

Sorry overseas collectors… but due to the size of the frames, these can only be shipped to a UK address.

Join us for a trip back to the world of Charles Dickens…….

Saturday 24th March 2012  meeting at 11.45 am

To all our collectors, and their families, we hope you will join us for this day of Dickens, to mark the

200th anniversary of Dickens’ birth, and to launch our brand new Dickens Heritage Collection Building.

Meeting at 11.45 at ‘Ye Old Cheshire Cheese’ Fleet Street, we will begin with a meal, scroll down to see the menu,  followed at 1.45pm by a informative stroll around Dickens’ London, led by Jean, the Dickens expert at London Walks, and finishing at the Dickens House Museum, less than a mile away, in time for an afternoon coffee. Cost: Each person pays for their own food and refreshments. Hazle Ceramics will cover the cost of the guided walk.

Our Day begins at the famous ‘Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese’ Pub

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese dates back to the 17th century, although a pub stood on this location as long ago as 1538.  The main room when you walk in feels and looks like it hasn’t changed

since it was rebuilt in 1667 with roaring fire in winter and dark wood.

This pub was a favourite haunt of Victorian author Charles Dickens. It is thought that the pub’s unique, gloomy character influenced many of Dickens’ darker characters; indeed Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is mentioned to in Dickens’ 1859 novel, ‘A Tale of Two Cities’. A whole host of other famous patrons have frequented the pub over the centuries, including Samuel Johnson and Arthur Conan Doyle.

Click here to read reviews of Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, and discover more about this historic pub.

After our meal, we will discover the London that Dickens knew and loved. This walk is a real eye-opener. It’s a sojourn into a lost city!   Jean, who guides the walk, will show us how this London – Dickens’s London – has kept the 20th century at bay. It’s a London of nooks and crannies and alleyways and gas lamps! It’s the London that Dickens brings to life so vividly in his works.

Click here for more information on London Walks

Our walk will bring us to The Charles Dickens Museum, based at 48 Doughty Street, the author’s only surviving London house, where we will have the chance to experience what Dickens’s home would have been like and learn more about the great novelist and social commentator. There is a delightful courtyard cafe at the museum, where we can finish our day with a coffee and a cake.

Visit the Charles Dickens Museum website, by clicking here

We do hope you will join us for what promises to be a memorable day!

We’ve seen the ’daredevil’ side of Hazle again, when last weekend, she undertook a ’firewalk’ over hot coals to raise money for a local charity.  17 brave souls gathered in the courtyard outside our studio, and as dusk fell, they put their best feet forward!  Hazle suffered no permanent damage, and has since been heard saying she would do a parachute jump next if she was asked !!

The Chinatown Collection

This is a collection that Hazle has wanted to do ever since we produced a much admired black and red Chinese restaurant, many years ago, (remember that?) and finally here are the first in what will eventually be a collection of 8 Chinese themed shops – 8 is regarded as an auspicious number in Chinese Culture, as it sounds very like the word for prosper or wealth.

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Chinese Calligraphy – The Year of the Dragon 2012

Launching our first new ceramic of 2012, on ‘Penhaligons of Covent Garden, London.  This famous perfumers was founded in 1870, and holds two royal warrants!

Here we present it ready for the Chinese New Year, the second in our Chinatown collection.

On the 23rd January 2012 the Chinese year of the Dragon begins, and as a Dragon year baby herself, with a special birthday later this year, Hazle has designed this limited painting of just 36 Ceramics, and will be painting all of this edition herself! Why 36?  The edition will be numbered up to 50 ceramics, but just for fun, as the number 4 is considered to be the unluckiest number, there will be no ceramics with a number 4 – leaving just 36 available ceramics in the edition!

On the ground floor we have a Chinese Calligraphy studio with an artist at work inside painting lucky sayings to greet friends in the new year.  A red & green Chinese dragon curves between the first and second floor windows, take a close look at his tail to read the date 2012.

Our new building measures 22.5cm tall (9”) x 9.8cm wide (just under 4”) and is priced at £94.95 + carriage/insurance.

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Oriental Spices – The Year of the Rabbit

Each shop will  display the year produced .  2011 is the year of the rabbit, so we start off the collection with this Oriental Spices emporium, painted on the ‘Sun Inn’ building in Canterbury, Kent.

If you don’t yet have this building among your collection, this could be the painting to tempt you!  Especially if you are a rabbit year baby yourself! (1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, Feb to Feb approx.)

Each ceramic will have a signed certificate with more details of the Chinese Zodiac Animals. Look out early next year for the next piece marking the year of the Dragon!  (1952, 1964 etc. …)

This Limited painting will be numbered up to 50 ceramics, but just for fun, we won’t be using those unlucky number 4’s leaving 36 available to buy.

Oriental Spices /The Year of the Rabbit is available at £ 74.95  +carriage/insurance.

Now Playing at the Royal Theatre….

We’re turning Japanese with two Limited Paintings on our Royal Theatre Building!  Both with posters beautifully painted by Christine and with colours and details to compliment the theme of the show.

Choose from Madame Butterfly at the Royal Court Theatre, or The Mikado at the Savoy, home of the D’Oyle Carte Theatre company who performed Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas.

Limited to 30 of each painting, ‘The Mikado’ and ‘Madame Butterfly are now available at

£64.95 each + postage/insurance. An informative signed & numbered Certificate accompanies.

Visit the ‘Numbered Ceramics’ section in our shop to order yours!