Meet the Falmouth graduate behind new pottery studio Out West
29 January 2026
Falmouth graduate Louis Domville-Musters is the multi-talented creative behind Out West Studio, a new pottery studio which opened on the Old High Street in Falmouth town in late 2025.
Graduating from BA(Hons) Architecture in 2021, Louis’ creative practice has taken lots of different shapes and forms. “When studying architecture, I started sketching a lot, and drawing became not only a way of capturing ideas but of communicating them”, he tells us. “I wasn’t great at sketching – I’m still not! – but I sketch every day, and I can interrogate ideas on paper before committing them to clay.”
On starting his creative journey at Falmouth, Louis told us: “I was already living in Cornwall and considering going to a city like Bristol or London, but I couldn’t bring myself to leave. I love surfing and living by the sea, so Falmouth was the perfect place to study.”
After graduating, Louis moved to New Zealand to work in an architecture practice and at the same time discovered a passion for ceramics in an evening pottery class. This was also where the idea for Out West Studio was first born, as he explains: “When I was in New Zealand I was romanticising the cold winters, rugged coastline and cobbled streets of Cornwall, and I drew countless logos and plans in my sketchbook.”
On returning to the UK, Louis worked in a Devon-based architecture practice and requisitioned the shed in his Mum's garden to use as a ceramics studio, experimenting with the form, glazing and enjoying the quiet pursuit of steady improvement in the evenings and at weekends.
Fast-forward 18 months; Louis returned to Falmouth and opened the doors to the real-life Out West Studio and is now in the full throes of running his own business. He’s had some early successes with ceramics collections selling out, running a popular series of workshops and working on a spring collection that’ll be released in early April. “I’m really excited to share that and I hope people can see the care and time that goes into each object”, Louis explains.
Building on the importance of process and refinement he learned while studying at Falmouth, Louis has big ambitions for Out West Studio. “I want to build enough demand that I can get support with production and spend more time designing and prototyping”, he tells us. “I’ve got hundreds of sketches for light fittings and furniture, not all ceramic, and I’d love it to become more than just a ceramics studio—more of a design studio focused on homewares.”
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