erman-born Elena Renker was into pottery from the moment she was introduced to it by a wonderful craft teacher as a child. She later made plans to spend a year working in a pottery in the village of Bergen in Germany's Bavaria, but before she did so, took up an invitation from a friend to spend three months at India's Golden Bridge Pottery. She had an amazing time, and for someone who'd always enjoyed making functional, everyday objects, it planted a seed. The year in Bergen followed, before
