Meet the Team

Alison has a curious and unique cv, having worked in the TV industry for 20 years, qualified as a primary school teacher and run her own successful street food business. At Wrightson and Platt, she loves setting up systems, managing the marketing, creating content and keeping a tight rein on the finances. Over the past 10+ years she has built strong and warm relationships with staff, customers, suppliers and businesses alike. She’s a very keen cook, walker and nature-lover and is famed for her excellent (and lethal) cocktails.

Beth is an artist in her own right who brings all of her creative passion to Wrightson & Platt. With a great eye for design and fearsome organisational skills, she leads the production team in creating stunning works of art and jewellery for our families. Beth is a trained sculptor and visual artist as well as an experienced foundry worker. You might be able to find her at your local arts and crafts market where she sells her work in her spare time, when she’s not cooking, socialising, camping or travelling.

Nao originally trained as an architect in her home country of Japan, but has a wide array of creative talents including making ceramics, playing the piano beautifully and dressmaking. Her perfectionism and attention to detail at the plaster, mould and wax stages of the casting process are vital in creating work of the finest quality. We often have to remind her to go home at the end of the day!

Betlem trained in sculpture at the University of Barcelona and puts her exceptional restoration skills to work on the all-important plaster casts. Her ability to finesse those little casts to museum standard sets Wrightson and Platt ahead of the field when it comes to detail. Betlem is also a very accomplished painter, specialising in portraits in oil. She adores cinema, animals and Barbra Streisand!

Our experienced casting artist Kathryn comes from a family of mould makers; her father, a well known ceramicist, specialised in slip cast work, so from a young age Kathryn was immersed in the casting process. Kathryn trained at Chelsea College of Art and in addition to casting, she’s worked in many creative fields including commercial interiors, where she designed and planned workspaces for buildings in the UK and around the world.

Earlier in her career, Kathryn trained and worked as a Montessori teacher, so has plenty of experience dealing with little ones and keeping them occupied during a casting.

In her spare time Kathryn enjoys life drawing, gardening and watching films with her daughter.