Kazuya Ishida was born into a family of potters in Bizen, Japan. Bizen is one of the six ‘ancient kilns’ and is famous for its traditional unglazed, high temperature-fired pottery. He uses wood-fired noborigama and anagama kilns. 
He trained with Jun Isezaki, a Living National Treasure in Bizen for four years, followed by time spent in the UK - including a residency at the Leach Pottery; learning different styles of pottery before establishing his own studio in Bizen.

Kazuya makes sculptures and vases featuring his distinctive spiralling marks. The contemporary forms of his work reflect the primordial rippled textures and patterns of an ocean bed or tectonic shifts in a cliff face and the marks that ebbing tides leave rock pools, pebbles and seashells. Using limited materials in line with Bizen tradition, pieces are organic at first glance and yet ordered in nature. Unique and inspiring!