I make pots in a studio in my garden in Edinburgh. A delightful location with a big window looking onto the garden. I have a small electric kiln and use this for most of my work. I also sometimes help fire a big Anagama wood fired kiln and put some of my own work in this. I have very recently built a small wood fired kiln - see my blog for further updates on this.

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I enjoy making domestic ware and test them around my own kitchen and get friends to test them too. They stand up well to the demands of heavy use in a kitchen, a dishwasher, regular use in an oven and microwave. I fire this to stoneware temperatures at 1270 C .

 

My sculptural work is mostly stoneware although I am happy to dabble in other temperatures/finishes to get the right effects. I am inspired by Hans Coper and his joining of thrown forms and also Lucie Rie and her exploration of glazes. I like using silicon carbide to make crater type glazes and also overlapping different glazes to get a range of exciting effects.  I love the outdoors and think my work is influenced by the Scottish landscape and seascapes and some of the rocks I have climbed.

 

I first started potting in high school aged 15 and fell in love with the potters wheel and the chemistry of glazes. I used to make my own ash glazes in the garden using old bonfire ash. I chose to study at Edinburgh College of Art and did a joint degree in ceramics and furniture. After a brief foray into Furniture Design I went back to my love of pottery working in Glasgow Ceramic studios and teaching pottery at a local college. I learnt a great deal from the other potters in the studio. We used to stay up all night firing a big gas kiln and I used to play with Copper red glazes swirled with other glazes to make landscape type images in bowls . I am hoping to go back to some of these glazes in my wood fired kiln.

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I currently teach Art and Design and Learning Support three days a week in a wonderful little cottage school and make my pots on the other two days. I feel very privileged to be able to do this. I am also mother to two lovely boys and have a husband who kindly built me my studio! Both of my sons can throw on the potters wheel and one of them enjoys joining me if I do a show and is showing a keen interest in raku firings!

 

Pottery has always been my passion. It is the most wonderful journey that just gets more and more interesting the further I delve into it.

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