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Janet Adam

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Thrown; Method: Gas-fired

Website: www.adampottery.co.uk

Janet Adam's wheelthrown stoneware and porcelain covers a wide scale of form, size and function. A small range of traditional domestic ware is included alongside more decorative yet functional pieces. Delicate porcelain bowls and vases, abstract-patterned wall-plates, plant and flower containers, jugs and large pitchers are all made as "one-off" items. Frost-proof garden urns and planters are on a larger scale. The high-fired reduction glazes give colourful, individual results, making each piece a unique object. Commissions are welcomed. Located at 76 Henderson Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5BJ, the Pottery is throughout the year; 11am to 6pm; Monday to Saturday. Prices range from £5 to £300. Studio space is available for other ceramicists, whose work is also shown in the adjoining gallery. See website for information on the other makers, news of any special events and any changes to opening hours.

Photograph: Planter. Approx 32x32cm.

Photograph: Jug. Ht 35cm.

Alan Aitchison

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Thrown; Method: Gas-fired

Wheel-thrown, hand-built and sculptural high-fired reduction stoneware. Continually evolving a range of glazes and forms using local materials where possible. Main interests are in shino glazes although others are being developed in tandem.

Jane Barker

Material: Other; Technique: Thrown; Method: Gas-fired

E-mail address: r.n.barker@abdn.ac.uk

All work is thrown stoneware or porcelain, reduction fired to 1280C in a self-built propane gas kiln. Glazes are celadons, picking up incising on porcelain, and tenmoku. Currently, I am using black and white slips, inlay and scraffitto, glaze reserved for interiors, and adding colour and textural contrasts to the matt and semi-matt finishes of the clay and slip.

Address:
"Courtin"
Barthol Chapel
Inverurie
Aberdeenshire AB51 8TD

Photographs:

1. Stoneware bowl 12" diameter. Black and white slips. scraffitto.

2. Stoneware bottle vases, 9 1/2", 8" and 6 1/2" high. Black and white slips, scraffitto.

3. Porcelain ovaled forms 7 1/2" and 5 1/2" high. Black slips, scraffitto inlay, paper resist and inlaid glaze.

Photograph: Stoneware bowl

Photograph: Stoneware bottle vases

Photograph: Porcelain ovaled forms

Alison Borthwick

Material: Porcelain; Technique: Other; Method: Electric

Website: www.buchlyviepotteryshop.com

E-mail address: alisonborthwick@btinternet.com

Alison Borthwick studied ceramics and printmaking at Grays School of Art in Aberdeen fron 1978-82. She returned to Glasgow to set up her pottery full time in 1983. Here she designed and built up a wide range of porcelain giftware, tableware and luminous lamps before moving the workshop and opening the Pottery Shop in the picturesque village of Buchlyvie near Loch Lomond and the Trossachs.
Alison herself creates the plaster models and moulds from which the products originate. Each new piece is hand turned on a lathe or wheel and polished until like marble. Case and working moulds are then made and dried before ready for use. Items are slipcast, fettled and sponged. After the bisque firing the pieces are wet polished or glazed before the decoration is applied.
Using a variety of techniques, largely inspired by Japanese painting and brushstrokes plus sensitive but striking use of colour, each piece is painted by hand then fired to a final temperature of 1270 C producing the unique and translucent finish.

As well as doing highly detailed work for artist Christine Borland, we now produce a very successful range of blue and white tableware, quirky handbuit dishes, wall fish, commemorative pieces and beautifully painted tile panels.
The shop and workshop are open plan allowing the customer the opportunity to meet the potters and watch them work (mixed blessing!)
We also stock ranges of pottery from some of the best makers in Britain and Ireland. Plus handmade silver jewellery and designer cards to complete the gift!

Photograph: Blue grass tableware

Val Burns

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Other; Method: Other

Website: www.culrosspottery.com

E-mail address: newsletter@scottishpotters.org

Val handbuilds large pots for the home environment - such as platters, vases and planters - many of which feature laminated clay in the design. Made to be strong yet light in weight, the pots are decorated with slips (often copper, iron or manganese) and finished with a matt crystalline glaze. The decoration of this work is much influenced by echoes of the natural environment and the subtle effects of camouflage.

Throwing on the wheel in Culross Pottery’s workshop space, Val also makes a range of stoneware vessels, preferring shapes with clean lines, simply glazed in cool modern colours. These include a variety of mugs and jugs, with dishes, bowls and vases.
Val’s latest work is available at Culross Pottery & Gallery in Fife, and she regularly exhibits at other galleries in Fife and around the Edinburgh area.

Photograph: forest light platter

Photograph: shadow planter

Photograph: seashore vase - thrown

tom butcher

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Sculpted; Method: Gas-fired

Website: www.mansefieldstudios.com

Various forms of living and natural matter inspire Tom Butcher’s work. The sculptural forms he creates represent an abstracted interpretation of research into organic growth and forms: from the architecture of insects to gneiss rock found on the North West Coast of Scotland. Tom employs several innovative processes to produce pieces of varying proportion and fragility, in an effort to push the boundaries of traditional ceramic making techniques.

Tom’s studio is on the shores of Loch Long, Scotland, surrounded by the inspirational scenery of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.

In his range of ‘Convoluted Bowls’, Tom uses a variety of clay bodies and base materials to produce a number of textures and finishes, from the purity and delicate nature of porcelain and bone china, to the gritty coarseness of heavily grogged crank and t-material. He has taken the textural, linear qualities of wool, rope and twines, and used them to describe the surface of his forms. Tom has also experimented with the inherent colours of various clays to produce a series of tonal monochromatic pieces. The colours used are fundamentally derived from those found in nature.

The ‘Monolith’ range was initially inspired by the architecture of , as well as gneiss – a granite-like rock specific to the coast of Sutherland, Scotland. Tom has refined and abstracted these forms to create subtle and delicate monolithic objects. The ‘monlithic’ pieces are hand built using a variety of stoneware clays and porcelain, hand polished or glazed , and reduction fired.

Photograph: stoneware ovolo

Photograph: reduction fired monolith

Photograph: set of three convoluted crank bowls

Alice Buttress

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Thrown; Method: Electric

Website: www.carrbridgestudios.com

Carrbridge Artists Studio
Main Street (Gallery)
Station Road (Workshop)
Carrbridge
Cairngorm National Park.
Tel: 01479 841328 or 841247

Designs ancient and modern are reflected in the exclusive range of Pottery, Sculptures and Jewellery which is handthrown, handbuilt or sculpted from stoneware or porcelain clay, then glaze and fired in the kiln.

Alices exciting range of work includes:
Pottery - decorative and functional bowls and vases etc.
Sculpture - Anything from small cats, owls and dragons to traditional busts and figures.
Porcelain Jewellery - Fine porcelain glazed in beautiful colours and finished with sterling silver fittings.
Raku - Bowls, pots and sculpture raku fired to give unique effects.

Alice sells mainly from Carrbridge Artist Studio, which she shares with Artist Husband Jeff. but also participates in various exhibitions - commsions undertaken.

Photograph: Too many cooks

Photograph: Flood Plains for RBG

Photograph: Raku Pots

Jeff Buttress

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Slab-built; Method: Raku

Website: www.carrbridgestudios.com

Carrbridge Artists Studio
Main Street
Carrbridge
PH23 3AN
Cairngorms National Park

Tel. 01479 841247/841328

Artist specialising in watercolour and pastel. Ceramic dabbler interested in all forms of pottery but particularly interested in pyromania aka. raku

Photograph: Copper Raku with latex resist

Photograph: Naked Raku ball

Photograph: Naked Raku Tiles with gold

Fiona Byrne-Sutton

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Other; Method: Electric

Based in Glasgow, I travel and work with Scotland’s alluvial orange firing clays and soil, presenting a sense of place through ceramic. Rural bowls are embedded with the local flora–ferns, Scots pines, and boulders of clay from a farm echoing a human population with strong communal links. Urban vessels are painted with topsoil and pressed with weeds that have arrived on the wind, opportunist, seeking out their chances like migrant city residents. Wall pieces, small dishes and large vessels measuring up to 50cm, bring wilderness indoors, black stoneware mirrors black soil. The vessels are physical, with roughly hewn edges, expressive of the ancient geological clay from which they are made. My work is vernacular, a kind of folk art. The ceramic bowls reference human domesticity but they challenge the viewer because they are not pretty white ceramics and behave different from glazed vessels, urging us to explore our relationship with both built and natural environment. The pots are frost proof and suitable for both indoor and outdoors. Commissions taken.

Eleanor Caie

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Slab-built; Method: Electric

Website: www.ecceramicdesign.co.uk

I design and produce my own ceramics and currently work at the Glasgow Ceramic Studio at WASPS in Glasgow, Scotland. I take inspiration from the water - west of Scotland seascapes and horizons, nature and energy flow and light. I like to create tactile pieces with a combination of textures including dry matt effects, contrasting enamels glossy and abstract glazing, and I use a range of finishes to bring out the individual characteristics of the design in my ceramics

My favourite techniques include slab building, layering, and tearing, and many pieces feature a combination of these to achieve a particular look or style. I am fascinated with the diversity of clay.

Photograph: Ceramic Sphere light

Diane Cassidy

Material: Earthenware; Technique: Other; Method: Electric

Website: www.cuparceramicsco.co.uk

I first got excited about pottery at an evening class in Ashbourne. After that I moved to California for a couple of years where I learned more in the Clay Digs studio in Santa Cruz and the Mother Earth studio in Sunnyvale. I was very inspired by the effects of fire while helping fire a noborigama kiln in the Napa Valley and pit firing on the beach with Molly Prier at Point Reyes. Now back in Scotland and the secretary of the SPA, I continue making pottery in my spare time and enjoy the SPA workshops especially the recent salt and wood firing with Fergus Stewart.

Photograph: Noborigama pot

Photograph: Pit fire vase

Photograph: Vase

Nicky Cowsill

Material: Porcelain; Technique: Thrown; Method: Wood-fired

NORTHUMBRIAN CRAFT POTTERY

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Thrown; Method: Gas-fired

Website: www.northumbriancraftpottery.co.uk/

Northumbrian craft pottery was established in 1987, it is a partnership between Andrew M. Harding and Michael Palmer who are keen throwers and have a passion for reduced fired stoneware. For many years they have specialised in sprigs for promotional and tourist outlets, and have developed numerous ranges of domestic ware, which are dishwasher and oven proof.
The latest range is in a copper red glaze on a white stoneware body; giving some amazing result’s. Colour’s have ranged from deep red fading to white or the red may vanish altogether or turn a muddy brown. They are currently in the process of developing new ranges and individually designed pieces in different materials, such as porcelain, which hopefully will be better suited to one off commissions and pieces for gallery’s and exhibitions .

Unit 7 backworth business park
Station road
Backworth
North Tyneside
NE27 ORT
tel/fax 0191 2160820

Photograph: copper red

Photograph: duckegg blue

Photograph: sprig detail

Suzanne Davis

Material: Earthenware; Technique: Other; Method: Electric

Vessels are handbuilt using coils in both earthenware and stoneware clays. The designs, colours and organic nature of the forms are inspired by a life-long bond with the sea...in Bermuda where I was born and in northeast Scotland where I now live. Sizes range from 20 to 45cm in height.

The assemblage pieces reflect an interest in Aboriginal cultural art and are made with rolled clay decorated with metal oxides. Free-mounted or sandstone grouted fragments are brought together to form a picture.

Contact:
New Fargie Farmhouse
New Fargie
Glenfarg
Perthshire PH2 9QT
Telephone: 01577-830007

Photograph: earthenware vessel -eddies

Photograph: fragments II

Keith and Beryl Dawdry

Material: ; Technique: ; Method:

Elizabeth Dell

Material: Earthenware; Technique: Other; Method: Electric

Website: www.elizabethdell.com

Contemporary ceramic portrait commissions. Portraits drawn, carved, engraved or painted into handmade earthenware tiles and kiln fired. Unique two-dimensional sculptures, delicate portrait drawings with the permanence of ceramics. Oxides painted on tin glaze in the majolica, delft tradition

Photograph: Angel, portrait pair, cobalt on white earthenware

Photograph: Anna, tin glaze red earthenware (detail)

Avesha DeWolfe

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Thrown; Method: Electric

Website: www.aveshadewolfe.com

I was first introduced to clay at the age of 10 during a surprise throwing lesson at the H.O.M.E. Co-op in Orland, Maine. Since that day, I’ve known that clay would be an integral part of my life and have spent the last 24 years exploring its amazing malleability. My studio work is made of stoneware clay, fired in oxidation, and infinitely inspired by the power, colours, and creatures of the ocean. Through layered glazes and curious wheel-thrown & hand-built forms I work to bring interactive function & sculpture together into pieces of art that speak to the world around them.

Photograph: Balance pot

Photograph: Snail Pot

Photograph: Shell Tiles

Fiona Duckett

Material: Earthenware; Technique: Thrown; Method: Gas-fired

Website: www.watergaw.com

E-mail address: fiona@watergaw.com

Watergaw Ceramics Studio and Gallery
4 Chapel Street
Whitehills, Banff.
AB45 2NB Telephone 01261 861090
At Watergaw Ceramics I specialise in a technique called In Glaze Reduction Lustre using a range of glazes I have developed myself. pieces are either thrown, handbuilt or slipcast and sometimes a combination of at least two of the techniques mentioned. The pieces made are mostly inspired by the reflective colour and movement found in water and are decorative pieces for the domestic environment with functionality in the form of vases, candlesticks and bowls.
As well as making my own pottery I run weekly classes along with Brian Cook Shand. We run the classes in sessions of six weeks at a time and all levels are welcome.

Photograph: Multi lustre vases

Photograph: Multi lustre dish and vases

Photograph: Close up lustre leaf bowl

Diana Ferrari

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Slab-built; Method: Gas-fired

E-mail address: jimandmave@btinternet.com

Coil Bowls and vases
Hand made dishes and vases formed using the ancient technique of coil pottery. Large coils of clay are applied a layer at a time, smoothed and moulded by hand using hand held tools, the pot is then left to harden and strengthen enough to allow the weight of the next coil. Due to the hardening process necessary between each coil and the essential slow drying the larger vases can take six or more weeks to complete.
Slab vases
Slab vases are created by cutting two-dimensional forms from the thinly rolled out slabs of clay. These are then teased into gently curving shapes, creating three-dimensional forms. Extra clay can then be added at this point for additional decoration.
Clay, glazes and firing
Unusual gritty stoneware clay is used, giving a lovely rough earthy texture. The artist makes most of the glazes, all of the finished ware has been fired up to 1270 degrees C in a reduction atmosphere using a gas fired kiln. The reduction process starves the kiln of oxygen at specific points in the firing cycle, causing the flame to search for oxygen from within the chemical structure of the clay and glazes. Flashes of colour, speckles and a general enriching of the finished glazes are achieved. Due to the organic nature of the flame, thickness of the glaze, and deliberate variations in the firing cycle, each firing produces slightly different patterns and colours. The quality of the stoneware clay and the high firing temperature gives strength to the finished article.

Photograph: Coil Pot

Marianne Finlayson

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Thrown; Method: Electric

Website: www.MariannesPottery.co.uk

I am originally from France, where I trained in ceramic decoration at the Lycée Ganeron in Paris for three years, and was then apprenticed to two professional potters for a further year.

For the past eleven years I have been living in Stow, where I work in the old howff, which I have gradually been converting into a studio.

I now produce a distinctive style of stoneware pottery that takes its theme from the Scottish Borders countryside where I live, with an appliqué technique applied to traditional forms. My sheep range has become a favourite with tourists and collectors alike, while my depictions of Eyemouth harbour are drawn from the more coastal areas. My work includes table and kitchenware, candle sconces, mirrors, earring holders and decorative framed tiles.

I sell mainly through craft and trade fairs, exhibitions, and a number of shops throughout Scotland, and directly to individuals worldwide through the Internet. I also enjoy making one-off pieces for galleries and private commissions.

Over the last seven years I have taken part in founding, setting up and running the Crafters co-operative in Melrose, the only one in the Borders. The co-operative is now a well-established thriving concern, with members from a wide variety of different craft backgrounds.

Photograph: Some recent pieces

Photograph: Eyemouth Harbour key holder

Photograph: Tealight holder

Christine Flynn

Material: Porcelain; Technique: Thrown; Method: Wood-fired

Alan Freestone

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Thrown; Method: Gas-fired

Website: www.uigpottery.co.uk

Uig Pottery is a small family business set up by Alan Freestone in the early 1990s. Most of Alan's work is hand thrown and decorated in a unique way using the surrounding land and sea scape as inspiration.

Photograph: sea view shell slab

Photograph: decanter and goblet

Photograph: casserole dish

sandra halley

Material: Porcelain; Technique: Thrown; Method: Wood-fired

Myer Halliday

Material: Porcelain; Technique: Thrown; Method: Wood-fired

Steve Hay

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Thrown; Method: Electric

An interested amateur member of SPA, of many years evening classes, working to amuse myself when my full time job leaves some spare time. I enjoy reading about and seeing other makers' work, professional and amateur. I only have limited facilities of my own - clay, wheel and hobby kiln - but I really enjoy the escape of my grown up "mud pie reveries" and the simple pleasures and frustrations of creating with clay. I have run out of relations and sympathetic friends, so any usable output goes to charity shops.

Karen James

Material: Other; Technique: Sculpted; Method: Electric

Website: www.karenjamesceramics.webs.com

E-mail address: mudflail@hotmail.com

32a Broomlands Street
Paisley PA1 2NR
07732 633062
0141 639 9026

Moving in to my WASPS studio at the beginning of 2011 was a sure sign that now was time to throw myself into ceramics full time. Thoroughly enjoying the freedom to focus and experiment, new ideas are emerging. I am teaching 3 classes a week and enjoying the new challenges these changes have brought.

My fleshpots lend themselves to exploration of movement and form, whereas the 2D wall panels shown here allow me to play with texture and composition. Other new work includes raku treasure boxes and porcelain angels.

Photograph: Clarsach

Photograph: Song

Photograph: You Spin Me

Ruth Elizabeth Jones

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Thrown; Method: Electric

Website: www.ruthelizabethjones.com

Two distinct ranges are available.
Gallery pieces consisting of one-off work including thrown sculptural oval bowls fired to stoneware and decorated with a gold metalic finish and sculptural ammonite forms either smoke-fired and suitable for in- doors only or decorated with metalic oxides, fired to stoneware and suitable for the house and garden.
Hand thrown ceramics. This range is hand-thrown on a traditional kick wheel and reflects Ruth's interest in ancient ceramic forms. Decorated with specially prepared orange, deep blue, olive and warm honey glazes and fired to earthenware.
Influences include Beaker pottery, Moravian and Bohemian antiquities, Romano-British and Medieval ceramics and Staffordshire slipware. Forms include tea-bowls, dishes, jugs, urns, platters, and amphora.

Photograph: Gold Bowl

Photograph: Smoke-fired Ammonite

Photograph: Earthenware Jugs

Elaine Jones

Material: Porcelain; Technique: Thrown; Method: Electric

I use the organic process of the wheel to make sculptural forms, as it captures the porcelain in its fluid, moving state. Whilst working as an assistant to ceramicist Christian Bruun in Copenhagen, I was drawn to the creamy and fluid-like qualities of porcelain. It was my interest in its fluidity and similarity to calciferous matter such as bone and shell, which inspired my work throughout my MA at Grays School of Art in 2004.

I have a workshop at home overlooking Buchanness Lighthouse, where my pieces are inspired by the fragments of shell and bone washed up onto the beach with each tide. These fragments can act as a reminder of our own mortality, as we too are temporal beings, subject to the same cycles of growth and decay.

I often combine each piece with found objects from the beach, such as rope and driftwood, as these too have their stories of transience. They act as a rough plinth to the times when we have held in our pockets a found shell, bone or pebble, treasuring it just for those few moments.

One of the contacts with bone as a child, was in the tradition of breaking the Wishbone and making a wish. The Wishbone is historically laden with magical qualities and symbolises wishes of happiness, hope and good luck. My Porcelain Wishbones are hand-made, so that each Wishbone is individual and unique. They make an ideal gift for Weddings or for anyone embarking on a new venture or move.

Tel: 01779 472160

Photograph:

Daniel Kavanagh

Material: Earthenware; Technique: Thrown; Method: Electric

Website: www.danielkavanagh.com

Daniel works from his studio / gallery in Glenferness on the edge of the Cairngorm National Park, where he produces ceramic work and bronze sculpture.

Contemporary design and elegance of line are beautifully evident in Daniels work, his ability to interpret the Highland landscape through the constant evolution of new ceramic forms and fresh colours. Producing work that demonstrates a high quality of craftsmanship.

Daniel is also inspired by ancient Roman pottery, Japanese ceramics and the art and architecture of east Asia.

Ceramic work includes some pieces being thrown on the wheel and then formed using several different sections.

Application of metallic lustres to the fired surface illuminate both the richness and reflective quality of the materials used creating an opulent feel to the work.

New work fuses the use of ceramics and bronze in an innovative and striking way.

Daniel has a small gallery space adjacent to his studio which is open all year round by appointment or please visit the website for more details on exhibitions, stockists and open studio events.

Prices begin at £35-300

Daniel welcomes commissions

Milltown
Glenferness
Nairnshire
IV125UP
01309651233

Jane Kelly

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Thrown; Method: Gas-fired

Website: www.kosmoid.net/pottery

Raised in New Zealand and London, I trained as a potter at Wimbledon, Norwich and Medway Colleges of Art under Tony Gant, David White, Colin Metcalfe, Peter Phillips, Siddig el Ngoumi and others. Within a few years of moving north to Portobello with my growing Scots family, I established a studio pottery in the centre of Penicuik.

In Edinburgh in the mid seventies I first set up pottery classes for adults at Cannonball House and taught there and at Infirmary Street for thirty years; I also teach regularly from my Penicuik pottery and at the Garvald community. But in many schools and art colleges the teaching of pottery has been brought to an end, and indigenous pottery manufacture becomes harder and harder to find.

Enthusiasm among lovers of craft pottery is strong in Scotland and New Zealand. With annual summer schools and occasional special pottery events at my Valleyfield House studio in Penicuik, I also exhibit each November at Penicuik Arts Centre and have shown with Scottish Potters at Broughton, Dunfermline, Glasgow, Nairn, Stirling, Perth and Milngavie.

I concentrate on thrown pots: useful wares like jugs, teapots, mugs, cups, plates and bowls, saltshakers and butterdishes. Unusual recent commissions include Dalhousie Castle Hotel and the Traverse Theatre.

Photograph: mariner's teapot

Photograph: biscuit jars drying

Photograph: copper glazed jug

Patricia Ledwith

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Other; Method: Electric

Website: www.brorapottery.co.uk

After a long career working in medical science and community education Pat finally had the opportunity to develop her interest in ceramics when she and her husband moved to the West Coast of Scotland. Now living in Brora, Pat hand builds pots in stoneware that are heavily influenced by the textures, shapes and colours of the coastal landscape of Sutherland.

Photograph: gull bowl

Photograph: leaf dish

Photograph: 'Tern around' bowl

Anne Lightwood

Material: Porcelain; Technique: Other; Method: Other

E-mail address: anne@lightwood368.freeserve.co.uk

My work uses varied clays, primarily porcelain or paperclay made with porcelain slip which is used for large scale murals and wall panels as well as platters and smaller dishes.

Current work makes use of strong colour and pattern; decorating methods include spraying, stencils, screen printing & brushwork. Some murals also include areas of textured relief which can be felt by the visually impaired.

Wall pieces frequently consist of a series of panels linked by theme but each individually composed. The feeling is contemporary, abstract, often using imagery from flags, or symbols seen in everyday life and understood without words. The work is high fired and usually waxed and burnished with little use of glaze.
Tile designs are hand painted with themes to suit clients’ specifications.

These are in earthenware, with coloured glazes using manufactured bisque tiles which can be incorporated easily into standard ranges in areas ranging from small panels of a few tiles to entire walls.

Author of Working with Paperclay and other Additives published by Crowood Press in 2000.

6 Lade Braes
St Andrews
KY16 9ET
01334 476388

Photograph: Leaf

Photograph: Harbour

Photograph: Plate

Maggie Longstaff

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Sculpted; Method: Electric

E-mail address: maggie@longstaff606.wanadoo.co.uk

ROSLIN GLEN CERAMICS
Murryfield, Roslin Glen, Roslin, Midlothian
Tel:0131 4402228
Visit by appointment only.

The Pottery was established ib 1980 by Maggie Longstaff.
Roslin Glen Pottery works (ceramic pictures) are sold through Scottish Potters Association exhibitions, joint exhibitions with fellow potters and galleries. Private commissions are also accepted
How The Ceramics Are Produced:
A design first drawn on paper is transferred to a slab of clay through indentation by retracing the drawing onto the surface of rolled out leather- hard clay.
The resulting clay imprint is cut up into seperate pieces in sympathy with the design. Decoration in relief is sometimes applied using coils of clay.
The work is bisque fired, then glaze fired several times at different temperatures with a range of artistic glazes and enamels. The picture is fixed to a wooden board, framed and grouted.

Photograph:

Photograph: Female Choir

Photograph: By the Sea Shore

Fran Marquis

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Other; Method: Electric

Website: www.franmarquis.co.uk

I graduated in Ceramics and Photography from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2000 and completed a Masters in Fine Art at Grays school of Art in Aberdeen in 2005. I have worked with ceramics in hospitals and schools and in summer 2010 completed 4 large murals for the International School in Aberdeen. I am currently Chair of the Scottish Potters Association.

My own recent work relates to fish and birds and I have been using a raku kiln to fire work. I love the excitement and immediacey of this process and it is what drew me into ceramics 20 years ago. I also enjoy playing with porcelain light and transluscence. I have exhibited in galleries around Scotland including 10 exhibitions with “The Mix” a group of artists based around Angus & Fife.

Photograph: Bird Bowl

Photograph: Fish Rising with Raku Glaze

Photograph: 3 candlebowls

Hannah McAndrew

Material: Earthenware; Technique: Thrown; Method: Electric

Website: www.hannahmcandrew.co.uk

My work is predominantly thrown using red earthenware clay. I use two ancient techniques of decoration on my work – slip trailing and sgraffito. I make functional pots because I enjoy seeing my work being used and enjoyed, all my pieces are created to be useful and at the same time beautiful to look at and to use. I am fascinated and thrilled by constantly developing the skills and techniques of my craft. I am particularly focussed on making pots that are of a very high quality and that perform their jobs to a very high standard. Pottery has the potential to outlast and survive many generations and I believe that as it has this ability it is my duty to use every bit of care and skill that I have available to me when I create something from clay.

My range includes mugs and jugs, plates and bowls, casserole dishes and teapots and so on and I am constantly expanding this. The decoration is based on natural patterns and textures as well as on traditional folk arts from around the world, from pottery, textiles and metal work. I take inspiration from the vegetation around me and my love of the outdoors. Inspiration can come from anywhere and I am always on the look out for new ideas. I also love to create commemorative pieces for special occasions.

www.hannahmcandrew.blogspot.com

Photograph: Slip trail Humbug Jug Group

Photograph: Slip trail Beastie Oil Pourers

Photograph: Slip Trail Pressed Platter

Lucy McAra Neish

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Slab-built; Method: Electric

Living on the shores of Loch Fyne, my main inspirations are sealife and boats. Most of my work are hand-built sculptures, mostly slab built. The seal sculptures are created in stoneware and suitable for outdoors. The rest are earthenware, which allows me to use a combination of oxides and brighter coloured glazes. Recently I have started to combine driftwood from the shores of the loch with my boats. This adds a sense of movement and contrasts manmade with nature.

Photograph: Loch Fyne seals

Photograph: Fishing boat

Photograph: Whale

Robert McCrone

Material: Porcelain; Technique: Thrown; Method: Wood-fired

agnieszka mizia

Material: Earthenware; Technique: Thrown; Method: Electric

Website: www.dreamtimestudio.co.uk

Agnieszka graduated from the GSA in 2002. She now works from her studio in Gourock and sells her work through Dreamtime Gallery and Crystal Shop in Lochgoilhead. Using a variety of building and throwing techniques she creates sculptural and functional pieces.

Gallery is open thursday - Sunday 11am - 5pm, for more information please visit website

Photograph: Door Guardian

Photograph: vases

Photograph: door guardian

lyle moar

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Pauline Muir

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Anne Murray

Material: Porcelain; Technique: Other; Method: Electric

Website: www.flickr.com/photos/the_mark_maker

E-mail address: anne.murray@cottage-gallery.com

i like to work in porcelain mainly in throwing and hand building

i am inspired by everyday objects and what they mean to me i especially enjoy transforming objects in some way and hearing the stories that the work conjours up for the viewer

i work from a studio in my garden and would love to travel back to scandinavia and japan to experience more of their culture philosophy and history

Photograph: tools of the trade

Photograph: companions

Photograph: daisy (detail)

Veronica Newman

Material: Porcelain; Technique: Thrown; Method: Electric

Website: www.veronicanewman.co.uk

E-mail address: veronica@veronicanewman.co.uk

Veronica Newman specialises in fine handthrown porcelain that exploits the delicacy and translucency of the clay. As well as individual translucent bowls and vases, Veronica makes domestic ware including mugs, jugs, teapots and dinner sets in various designs as well as porcelain vine leaves and porcelain jewellery. Commissions are welcome.

The different ranges include bowls and vases with altered or cut rims that echo flower shapes. A new range of teabowls and bowls explores the use of different oxides painted onto the rims. Fired in an electric kiln, some pots are glazed on the inside only and polished on the outside.

A leading archaeologist’s daughter, Veronica is influenced by ancient Greek pottery and she researches the production of Mycenaean and Minoan vases and stirrup jars. She is fascinated by natural and man-made patterns and inspired by the changing colours of the landscape.

Veronica started working in earthenware before changing to porcelain. She sells her work in selected shops and galleries in Scotland. She has exhibited with the Scottish Potters Association since 1982 and at Potfest Scotland since 1998. She is now working most of the year in France but continues to take part in Scottish Potters Association exhibitions and Potfest Scotland

Wester Golford
Moyness
Auldearn
NAIRN
IV12 5QQ
or
Lasmurailles
32190 Belmont
France

Photograph: Handthrown Porcelain Bowl with carved rim

Maria Nordgren

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Thrown; Method: Electric

Website: mnordgren.web.officelive.com

Originally from Sweden, I took up pottery as a hobby in the 70's, which I continued while training and working as a geologist in the 80's. The last 15 years we have lived in several countries and I have worked mainly as a science teacher, teaching ceramics on the side.

I started to do pottery full time only when we moved to Scotland in 2007. Enjoying not having to share a studio, I experiment a lot with different clays and firing programmes. Most of my pots are in white stoneware or porcelain, usually unglazed.

Photograph: White stoneware mugs

Photograph: Stoneware tealight holders

Photograph: White stoneware with cobalt

Anna Olson

Material: Other; Technique: Other; Method: Electric

After completing a National Certificate in Ceramic Art in the Environment I was accepted onto the Ceramic Degree course at the Glasgow School of Art in 2005. As timing would have it I became pregnant and have put the studying on hold to concentrate on being mum.

During my studies I focused mainly on making hand-built sculptural pieces, fascinated with contradictions and contrasts and with elements of the natural world, especially the sea. Projects that I would like to develop in the future. Also, I would like to explore further the role of photography, where the completed ceramic piece becomes part of the creative process.

Since moving to Crieff in 2005 I have worked with Len Whatley at Crieff Ceramics and have set up a workshop at home.

At present I am developing my throwing skills and hope in the not-too-distant future to be producing appealing tableware. Bring on the clay and glaze tests! As many as a two year old child will allow anyway.

Photograph:

Emma Pattullo

Material: Earthenware; Technique: Other; Method: Electric

Website: http://platform22gallery.blogspot.com

Emma Pattullo (nee Croker Poole) - London born, Emma studied at Wimbledon School of Art (1999), and at Bristol (1990 - 93) before moving to Aberdeenshire, where she now lives and works from her studio gallery Platform 22 in Torphins.
Inspired by her children & the Scottish landscape, Emma enjoys hand building in earthenware clay using texture‚ engobes and lustre’s to create richly coloured‚ decorative and tactile pieces. Her ceramics is constantly evolving resulting in a wide range of ceramics, varing from functional to sculptural. As well as making commemorative wares and hand painted tiles to commission.
Emma teaches pottery workshops and one to one intensive courses from her studio gallery, schools and art groups/centres around Aberdeenshire, for beginners to intermediate level.

Situated in the beautiful surroundings of Royal Deeside, Emma has a small bright studio gallery Platform 22, that is open on Saturdays 10am-5pm & Sundays 2-5pm or by appointment on weekdays.

Photograph: River Flow Platter

Photograph: Platter

Photograph: Girl

Angela Pointon

Material: Porcelain; Technique: ; Method: Electric

Website: www.angelapointon.com

The positive experience of using and enjoying beautiful ceramics in everyday life activities drives me to design and create. The drawing and patterns are developed from things in my everyday. Allowing the drawing to integrate with the ceramic techniques keeps a fresh feel to the work with the porcelain acting as a strong canvas for colour. The shiny and matt surfaces illustrate the beauty of the material.
I am currently working on a collection of bottles, re-inventing in ceramics the old styles of household bottles and love the idea of taking something old and creating something new.
I live and work in Glasgow and do my best to keep my website up to date with what work is going on.

Photograph: bluebird bottles

Photograph: line up

Photograph: collection

Findhorn Pottery

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Emilka Radlinska

Material: Porcelain; Technique: Thrown; Method: Wood-fired

Philip Revell

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Thrown; Method: Wood-fired

Website: www.philip-revell-pottery.co.uk

E-mail address: philip@templelands.freeserve.co.uk

27 High Street,
Dunbar,
East Lothian, EH42 1EN

Tel. 01368 863211

My aim is to make a range of functional stoneware that can be enjoyed in everyday use. Almost all pots are thrown, mostly on a ‘Leach’ type kick wheel. Most of my glazes make use of local clays and wood ash as major ingredients. All pots are fired in a two-chamber, wood-fired, climbing kiln.
My showroom is open at any time by arrangement.

For details of intensive throwing courses and evening classes, please see my website.

Photograph: tenmoku glaze jugs

Photograph: Soda glaze teapot

Photograph: woodfired bottle

Rachel Jayne Rogers

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Other; Method: Electric

Website: www.racheljaynerogers.co.uk

Rachel studied ceramics at Duncan of Jordanstone college of Art in Dundee. Graduating in 1995 with B Des (hons). Since then she has set up a successful workshop in her garden.

Rachel lives and works in Glasgow, where she makes handbuilt coiled pieces both porcelain and stoneware clay, everything from giant vases to tiny pieces of jewellery. Another branch of her work takes her to the other end of the scale with slipcast pieces which explore the purity of porcelain.

Photograph: Ceramic wall

Photograph: Blue and pink bowl

Photograph: Tree vases

Patricia Shone

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Other; Method: Wood-fired

Website: www.patriciashone.co.uk

I use combinations of hand building and throwing to make my pots and achieve the textures which give them a sense of the landscape. I use a variety of firing methods but mainly low fired raku and wood fire stoneware using locally sourced timber. This brings my work closer to its source, the land and how we live upon it. I am influenced by my environment, by the communities and culture of the place and by the traces an individual leaves upon the landscape.
Some of the work is for use with food, some is contemplative, some hang on the wall.
The processes involved in turning clay into ceramic, reflect huge elemental forces of nature but the product can be as humble as a dish passed from hand to hand in the simple act of sharing food.

You can follow my wood firing efforts at www.skyewoodfire.blogspot.com and also on facebook Patricia Shone Ceramics

Photograph: contoured pebble, raku fired, thrown & hand built

Nicola Sinclair

Material: Earthenware; Technique: Other; Method: Electric

Website: www.sinclairceramics.co.uk

I produce unique handmade sculptures and clocks. All of my designs are made using a variety of hand building techniques including, coiling, pinching and slab-building. This makes every piece unique as everything turns out very differently even when I use the same design.

I mainly use Earthenware and Crank clays, both of which I fire using an electric kiln.

I take my inspiration from all of my surroundings, I like to try and see unique qualities to things we see in our every day lives and turn these qualities into unusual sculptures. I like people to decide for themselves what my designs represent as this can be very unique to the individual, I love to hear people say ‘That reminds me of….’ or ‘ It makes me think of….’; it’s very rewarding to get such a reaction from people. My prices range from around £20-£200.

Photograph: Sway

Photograph: Life

Photograph: Patchwork

Julia Smith

Material: Earthenware; Technique: Slab-built; Method: Electric

Website: www.juliasmithceramics.com

My current range of ceramics is inspired by discarded, decorative objects found at markets and in charity shops, in particular, vintage cut glass and decorative lace and embroidery. I use a smooth white earthenware clay which I bisque to 1040 and glaze to 1142 in an electric kiln. I apply gold and platimum lustres and digitally printed transfers which I fire to 750.

Photograph: Earthenware Mirror

Photograph: Earthenware Pot

Photograph: Earthenware Clock

Christine Hester Smith

Material: Earthenware; Technique: Slab-built; Method: Electric

Website: www.christinehestersmith.co.uk

My pieces combine my love of illustration with the delights of three dimensional form. Much of my work now springs from extruded sections. This includes squared plates, tall curving vases, and long undulating dishes which incorporate cheerful designs in slips and colourful glazes. More recently I have been constructing a series of ceramic seats. I work mainly with red earthenware and fire to 1100c.

I have my own showroom in Galloway, South West Scotland but also sell work through gallery exhibitions and retail ceramic shows.

Blog address : http://barnbarrochpottery.blogspot.com

Photograph: Will it Rain

Photograph: Two dogs

Photograph: Dogs & Bees

Adam Streeter-Smith

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Thrown; Method: Wood-fired

paul tebble

Material: Stoneware; Technique: Thrown; Method: Electric

Website: www.themeadowspottery.com

Working in The Meadows Pottery, Edinburgh, I have been supplying the local community on Edinburgh's Southside with handthrown stoneware since 1988. Now working alongside my partner Junko Shibe, we try to make simple, warm, useful pots that are easy on the eye, well made and comfortable to use.
I enjoy making items to order; anything from a solitary wee cup to special commemorative pieces, full dinner services, gallon-sized teapots or baby hand/footprint tiles.
Although I make a small amount of porcelain, the bulk of our work is high-fired stoneware, fired in an electric kiln, using gentle blues, greens, browns and a creamy oatmeal crystal glaze.
I started potting in 1974, learning from Brian McCombe (time served with Marianne De Trey) at the Salisbury Centre in Edinburgh. I was then taught briefly by John Davey of Bridge of Dee in south-west Scotland. Apart from this I am self-taught. I feel relatively traditional in my outlook, seeing the global history of pottery and potters as a vital source of knowledge and inspiration.

Address:
The Meadows Pottery,
11a Summerhall Place,
Edinburgh EH9 1QE
Tel: 0131 662 4064

Photograph: Bisque ware

Photograph: Mugs

Photograph: Butter Dishes

Ken Tonge

Material: n/a; Technique: n/a; Method: Oil-fired

Retired chemist. Pyromaniac motorcyclist. Hobby ceramicist for over 30 years. You name it; I've tried it! Outdoor 20 cu. ft. kiln fires with old engine oil and kerosene(Two New Soldner burners with vacuum cleaners for air-blowers). Specialised for some years in the creation of one-off wall-hangings in stoneware or porcelain. These are suitable for indoor or outdoor sites. Illustrated pamphlet available on request.

Photograph: Wall-hanging (2008)

Photograph: Cattle Egret, Stoneware

Photograph: Wall-hanging (2006)

JULIETTE TOWNSEND

Material: Porcelain; Technique: Thrown; Method: Wood-fired

Dorothy Wilson

Material: Earthenware; Technique: Thrown; Method: Electric

Website: www.dorothywilson.co.uk

In 2001 I decided to make a career change and take up Art and Pottery. Since then I have been to college and have graduated from both James Watt College and Cardonald College in Art and Design and also in Pottery and Ceramics. In January 2005 I began working for myself and "Firing Your Imagination" was born.

Although my main work is tableware, I also very much enjoy sculpting and painting. This gives me an all round ability which I like to incorporate into my work. Often my work will be a combination of a thrown piece but with sculpted add-ons. I often incorporate landscapes into my work thereby taking advantage of my painting and pottery training.

At present I am working from home, carry out commissions and show my work at Craft Fayres. I believe that bespoke commissions will be a major part of my work in the future so please contact me to discuss your project.

My new web site is up and running so I hope you can pay a visit.

Photograph:

michelle young-hares

Material: Porcelain; Technique: Thrown; Method: Wood-fired

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