Wendy started her small company in 2006, first making ceramic cupcake candleholders, and then slices of cake, which also held candles.   "So I called my company Homebakes: I was making cakes, in my kiln at home, out of clay.   I have always loved old china, and collecting tea pots, and all sorts of domestic ware, so my company naturally grew to include tea sets, dinner plates, cake stands, and much else.   What I enjoy very much is giving a contemporary edge to the type of domestic ware made in the potteries of 18th and 19th century Europe, and exported from there to much of the rest of the world.  I play with the conventions of bone china and porcelain, using sprigging, delft printing and gold lustre decoration.  I then use the same manufacturing processes to produce indivual pieces of sculpture, by fusing together objects such as rabbits, birds, frogs and flowers, as well as cakes, cups and saucers, plates and jugs and the like.  I like the play between the functional and the non-functional, and I try to shift the boundaries between the two in what I hope is a witty way.” Wendy works from her garden studio in Pinelands, Cape Town. "My work in ceramics has as its main focus the domestic arena: it deals with the home, either as functional ware, or as sculpture, (like the precarious stacks of teacups or the stacks of rabbits and birds). These pieces speak to the small domestic rituals which hold our lives together. Or don't: balancing teacups is no mean feat."