This Mystery Pot was created before Leah Jensen was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour in the second half of 2020. Undergoing intensive treatments to the brain can result in a range of strange symptoms, including memory loss. Although it is certain that the mystery pot was made by Leah, she has no recollection of making it, or even where it was made. She was unable to find any evidence of the making process that is usually well documented. Alongside Leah's signature at the base is the clue 'St. Catherine', even so she is unable to identify which painting was used to inform the carving.

To this day she does not remember, she believes this is the best pot she is ever made.

At first glance of Leah Jensen’s work, you can not help but delight in the sheer beauty of each form, your appreciation heightened by the illustrious exactitude of the artist’s craftsmanship. When you then discover that the origin of the carvings on each of Leah’s ceramic vessels comes from her love of Renaissance paintings you realise that the work goes beyond elaborate technique. It is rich and laden with meaning and despite being clean-cut and contemporary in its form, its tendrils stretch back in time, thousands of years into the past. Leah allows the fundamental elements of her chosen Renaissance painting to dictate the final design of the pot. This is a technique that the artist developed after learning about the maths and planning some of the great masters used when considering their composition. In doing so, she unearths hidden geometric structures that reside beneath the surface of the painting. Leah maps out these patterns and forms and translates these by applying images of the painting using pins and paper on to a hand-built, unfired clay vessel, using the clay as a canvas. She then carves out these precise yet abstract patterns, creating a unique, meticulously planned contemporary object very much influenced by the past. Once the vessel is complete the narrative is hidden, just as in the geometric structure of the painting before it.