Katie Coston opened the first form of Illyria Pottery in Greenville, South Carolina in 2008. Between 2009 and 2010 Katie was the artist-in-residence at The Gallery Upstairs and Torquil in Henley-in-Arden, UK.

In 2012 Katie and her husband moved to Oxford. There she opened her own ceramics gallery in Jericho, Oxford. After seven years Illyria Pottery has now moved online and in galleries across the country.

Katie Coston (Illyria Pottery) now works from her studio in her home near Oxford.