About me | En Kruka Keramik

Hello, my name is Heike and I am En Kruka Keramik

Here's a bit about me

Ever since I can remember I've always enjoyed being creative - ”making stuff”. I started in kindergarden and never really stopped, trying lots of different materials and techniques on the way.

As an adult, I spent 20+ years working as a digital transformation and strategy consultant, while sorely missing the energy and time for ”making stuff”, that wasn't PowerPoints or emails.

About 20 years ago I finally fell for ceramics. I immediately loved the fact that I both get to invent a shape, form it AND colour it. And I can (and do) literally spend all my free time exploring the endless possibilities this gives me.

Over the years I have filled my house (and some friends' places) with anything and everything ceramic – cups, plates, plant pots, lamps, tiles, fence toppers, cats (!), earrings, bird baths shaped like swimming pools (?!)... I've made it all.

And after a host of friends commented that really I should try selling what I make, I finally decided to turn my hobby into my occupation.

Starting in 2023, I slowly established my own ceramics workshop at home, took a couple of intensive throwing lessons and upped my game by getting a diploma in ceramics. In October 2024, I opened my Etsy store and started selling my ceramics. And from November 2024 I've also been teaching ceramics via ABF (Workers' Educational Association - Sweden's largest study association).

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Full body portrait of Heike, owner of En Kruka Keramik in an empty ceramics studio

This is me in 2023 in a completely empty workshop - just starting out.

Collage of the steps involved in making my figurines - from building them to painting them to firing them

These are the steps involved in making my figurines: First I roll out a slab and then make the body of the figure, using a plaster form. After adding the figures' details (arms, face, accessories etc), I fire the figure in my ceramics oven to make the clay watertight. After cooling, I paint the figure with underglaze (which adds colour), after which I dip it in transparent glaze (which makes it shiny). Finally, I fire the figure once more.