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| Janet Adam
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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.
Other photographs: Jug. Ht 35cm.
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| alan Aitchison
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| Jane Barker
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.
Other photographs: Stoneware bottle vases, Porcelain ovaled forms
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| Alison Borthwick
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!
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| Val Burns
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.
Other photographs: shadow planter, seashore vase - thrown
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| tom butcher
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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.
Other photographs: reduction fired monolith, set of three convoluted crank bowls
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