Lesley Tuchten Ceramics

Lesley Tuchten Ceramics I make custom pet ceramics based on the photos of pets you send me.

🐕 Here’s how your pet becomes a sculpture 🐈‍⬛Step 1: You send the photosStep 2: I build the base & and we agree on a pos...
03/07/2025

🐕 Here’s how your pet becomes a sculpture 🐈‍⬛

Step 1: You send the photos

Step 2: I build the base & and we agree on a pose

Step 3: I put in the basic details

Step 4: After a period of drying, I sculpt in fur or feathers, and other features

And at the end, you receive a heartfelt keepsake.

Inbox me your email address for the NEW AND IMPROVED catalogue with prices ✨️🌟✨️

I just finished the mugs product page on my website and it reminded me of some pieces from the past. Remember that time ...
01/07/2025

I just finished the mugs product page on my website and it reminded me of some pieces from the past. Remember that time I got to do a horse for a client? That was amazing! Send me more horses!

Every so often I get a photo from someone, drinking warm things out of their mugs. Most memorable is one of my mugs in the Swiss alps! If you have any goodies of yourself and your mug, please send me them to me! It makes my day! Please also send me your IG handle so I can tag you!

If you want your OWN mug (bunnie owners, where are you?) DM me your email address and I'll send through the BRAND NEW CATALOGUE I promised The Husband I'm putting together today.

Lots of love,
Lesley

🚨CUSTOM PET ALERT!🚨This isn’t just a ring bowl—it’s a one-of-a-kind handmade ceramic keepsake featuring YOUR dog, sculpt...
27/06/2025

🚨CUSTOM PET ALERT!🚨

This isn’t just a ring bowl—it’s a one-of-a-kind handmade ceramic keepsake featuring YOUR dog, sculpted with love and lifelike detail.

💍✨ Imagine dropping your rings into this every night and being greeted by your beloved pup’s sweet face.
📸 Made to order from your photos.
🐾 Every strand of fur, every tilt of the head—captured forever in clay.

➡️ This one features a scruffy terrier, but I sculpt any breed, any pet.
➡️ Customised JUST for you.
➡️ Limited order slots available.

💌 Want a price list? Drop your email below or DM me directly. Let’s create something truly special for your home.

Literally paving paradise to put up a parking lot. This is one of the most precious, historic art spaces in Cape Town. H...
26/06/2025

Literally paving paradise to put up a parking lot. This is one of the most precious, historic art spaces in Cape Town. Help save Rust-en-Vrede Gallery from being taken over by the City of Cape Town for "development".

Save Rust-en-Vrede Gallery + Clay Museum

Custom Pet Lovers, This One’s for YOU! 🐾Meet Crunchie the Cairn Terrier and Jamie the Irish Terrier, immortalized in cla...
26/06/2025

Custom Pet Lovers, This One’s for YOU! 🐾
Meet Crunchie the Cairn Terrier and Jamie the Irish Terrier, immortalized in clay and nestled in their own handcrafted oval ring bowl – the perfect keepsake for your bedside table, dresser, or kitchen windowsill. 💍🍴

✨ This piece is fully custom made to capture your pets’ personalities, quirks, and charm — down to every little tilt of the head and wag of the tail. Whether it’s one beloved pet or a whole furry duo like this, I sculpt each one by hand with love and detail.

(This is not mass-produced. This is art made just for you.)

💌 Want to bring your own pets to life in ceramic form?
Drop your email in my DMs and I’ll send you the full price list and options.

Spots are limited – I can only make a few each month! 🐕🐶

A little apple, a loyal friend, and a whole lot of love—captured in clay. 🍏🐾 Look at the gorgeous photo Rianda sent me!T...
23/06/2025

A little apple, a loyal friend, and a whole lot of love—captured in clay. 🍏🐾

Look at the gorgeous photo Rianda sent me!

This custom ceramic ring bowl was made for Rianda who wanted a daily reminder of her beloved pup and her favourite toy, an actual green apple.

❤️ If you have a pet who means the world to you, I’d be honoured to create something just as special.
✨ Each piece is custom-made to reflect your pet’s personality.

📬 DM me for a price list or to book your custom piece
📦 Shipping available worldwide
💥Limited monthly spaces

🐩✨ Hand-sculpted with love ✨🐩Meet this elegant poodle — captured in clay, full of charm, and completely one-of-a-kind. E...
19/06/2025

🐩✨ Hand-sculpted with love ✨🐩

Meet this elegant poodle — captured in clay, full of charm, and completely one-of-a-kind. Each piece I create is custom-made to honour the unique spirit of your beloved pet, from their proud posture to their playful quirks.

Whether it’s a tribute to a current companion or a memory of a furry friend you hold dear, I’d be honoured to bring your pet to life in ceramic.

📩 DM me to see the price list or to start your own custom order
🖐️ Handmade with care, from my hands to your home

✨ Immortalize Your Pet in Art ✨Meet Max, a loyal kitty whose love lives on in this custom urn.I work from photos to crea...
16/06/2025

✨ Immortalize Your Pet in Art ✨

Meet Max, a loyal kitty whose love lives on in this custom urn.

I work from photos to create hand-sculpted tributes that capture the heart and spirit of your pet—dogs, cats, horses, birds, and more. 🐾

Whether for a gift or a keepsake, each sculpture is a one-of-a-kind celebration of the animals who make our lives whole.

💌 DM me your email address to start your custom piece today!

The latest round of Cursed Canva* Backgrounds has been so wonderful. Today, we have these gorgeous goosey cake toppers, ...
10/06/2025

The latest round of Cursed Canva* Backgrounds has been so wonderful. Today, we have these gorgeous goosey cake toppers, and they are paired with some sort of duck burrito.

I did not ask the AI to give me a duck burrito but here we are. No regrets.

And how about the fluffy goose bum added to the goose bride? Magnificent. 5 stars.

If you would like your own cake toppers, in whatever animal or human that works for your special day, please drop me your email address for prices and processes. I'd LOVE to make you something wonderful and then let Canva do weird things to the photos.

*Canva is an amazing digital editing tool with the ability to prompt its AI for backgrounds. My usual prompt is "seamless beige background". Canva often adds some very weird stuff.

HOW TO GLAZE: First step is actually I don't glaze the sculptures. I underglaze. What's the difference? Well, how many c...
03/06/2025

HOW TO GLAZE:

First step is actually I don't glaze the sculptures. I underglaze. What's the difference? Well, how many chapters do you want on glaze chemistry?

None? Good, me too. I was up all night with a dog who has dementia. I'm pooped. He pooped too. Everywhere.

Basically, in my studio, one works like little pots of coloured paint, and the other is in huge buckets and pieces get dipped into them.

So, I paint with the little pots. But underglaze is tricky. It's not completely opaque unless you do 5 gazillion coats, and each colour is more or less opaque than the other. So you have to learn by doing, often by doing wrong.

But, yay! You can repaint badly underglazed pieces. It's not easy, but it's doable. Most of ceramics works that way: yes, I can fix my mistake (unless I can't 😖) but it takes time, finesse, and please, loving husband ( ), the mini angle grinder 😘😘😘.

Hope you are having a lovely day, we are here, snug and warm, recovering from 3am poopmagheddon.

THE DRYING STAGE: After every sculpture is finished, it has to dry out COMPLETELY. Otherwise, moisture in the clay will ...
28/05/2025

THE DRYING STAGE: After every sculpture is finished, it has to dry out COMPLETELY. Otherwise, moisture in the clay will expand in the hot kiln and make the sculpture explode**.

Yup, explode. Millions of pieces of hard work scattered around the kiln.

That's why I try not to tempt the kiln gods by firing unless I'm 100% sure the piece is dry.

"Try" being the operative word because every once in a while I'll just think, "Why not ruin tomorrow?" and I'll stick in something big, expensive, and damp.

But not today, kiln Satan, not today because Rianda's pup is too precious for acts of reckless stupidity.

**In every community, there are a bunch of shouty shouts about things people outside the community would find hilarious. For us sculptors, one of them is why stuff explodes. I'm Team Dampness until someone gives me a better scientific explanation. This is our version of new school vs old school and it can get emotional.

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