Keith Brymer Jones: ‘It doesn’t surprise me that a lot of chefs also do pottery – clay is very tactile’

Keith Brymer Jones in his studio in Whitstable, Kent, which is housed inside an old bakery. Photograph: Phil Fisk/The Observer

People often ask me: “Oh, what’s your favourite thing to make?” For me, it’s a bowl. You share things in a bowl. They are very much like cupped hands. So that’s why I love making them.

I’m not a major fan of a square plate. It doesn’t have a generous feel about it. Those hard, square edges. It feels mean. It’s not a very congenial shape.