Liv: Playful, modern and celebratory.
 
Dom: We create everything from incense holders and jewellery to illustrations and we base our work on nudity, the female body and its many forms.

Liv: We both studied illustration at university but it wasn’t until our final year that we tried out different mediums and got into ceramics.
 
Dom: There was a lot of trial and error as we were teaching ourselves – it was completely new to us – but that’s where our passion for ceramics sparked.

Liv: We always loved art and creating from a really young age – as children really. We enjoyed academic subjects throughout school too but it soon became obvious that this was our main passion.
 
Dom: It became clear that this was the only thing that we would be able to sustain an interest in long term.

Liv: Anything that’s new. We love discovering fresh ideas and ways of working.
 
Dom: It’s always exciting to find ways to add a unique element to old favourites too. For example, our incense holders and bestsellers are always evolving in different ways.

Liv: It may sound cliché but honestly, we are both big fans of Henri Matisse. We studied him so much throughout our degree and we love his work – it’s so influential.
 
Dom: We’re inspired by so many illustrators and artists nowadays that it’s hard to narrow them down – but we’re also very inspired by fashion. It inspires the details on a lot of our figures – for example, the boots we add and other accessories, so it’s important to us to stay engaged with trends.

Liv: All women. I think a lot of people love our work because we focus it on a variety of body types and shapes.
 
Dom: There are so many inspirational women out there and it’s cool that so many people can relate to our work. It’s about celebrating everyone – no matter what size they are.

Liv: Whatever they want to feel. A lot of people have found our pieces entertaining – when we first started selling the nude pieces they really made people laugh.
 
Dom: We liked that. We started to realise that our work could make people feel good.

Liv: We recently did a really cool project with Netflix to support the show Sex Education and worked on a piece exploring sex and virginity.
 
Dom: That was really exciting as we’re big fans of the show. And we’ve done some cool collaborations with other international brands, creating designs for beach towels and deck chairs. We’re lucky to try out so many different types of things.

Liv: It’s so hard to say or even imagine doing anything else, because we’ve always been creative and went straight into running our business after graduating. Maybe teaching – we enjoy that element of the workshops and there was definitely a stage where I thought I wanted to teach.
 
Dom: You did go through that stage, I remember. Maybe we’d look after and help animals – we love cats and have our own, called Percy. We could have had our own cat home.

Dom: We love so many, we follow about 1,500 Instagram accounts and they’re almost all artists and homeware brands, with some fashion thrown in. Painters we love at the moment are Wayne Pate, Ines Longevial and Isabelle Feliu.
 
Liv: A few of our favourite ceramicists are LRNCE, Eleanor Bostrom, Rami Kim and Ivy Weinglass. We used to be really into embroidery and textile design too before ceramics and we really like Laurie Maun and Katherine Plumb’s bold graphic cushions. We’re also fans of more intricate work like Ellie Mac embroidery and Lora Avedian.

Liv: We would love to collaborate with an embroidery artist or a fashion brand to design our own intricate embroidered pieces.

Dom: Collaborations we have coming out (and can talk about) in the next few months are our jewellery collection with Wolf and Moon Hackney and a candle with the fantastic guys at Earl of East London.
 
Liv: We also have a lot of new ceramics coming out soon too, as well as an essential oil burner in a similar style to our incense holders. We’ve been working on Zodiac themed decorative pieces.

Liv: The idea was to get across the ‘story’ of the trek and we knew we wanted to include a woman, a mountain silhouette and the Trekstock logo.
 
Dom: We insisted on including nudity and we’re so glad that element made it into the design, because that really is at the core of our brand and it makes it much more playful.
 
Liv: The style of the tee is simple to ensure it is wearable, timeless and classic. We chose the pose to reflect an uplifting, supportive spirit that we think is important for the charity and this challenge.