
remembering friendly Alan Gaff of Argyll Pottery who died in a
motorbike accident

THROWING A POT AT
PENICUIK POTTERY
Penicuik Pottery Summer
Schools details pictures
2008 Scottish Potters
exhibition at the Stirling
Smith
2009 Scottish Potters
exhibition at Milton of
Crathes
CARTHAGE
MUST BE DESTROYED BEAKERS AND JUGS
RAKU AT
PENICUIK POTTERY FOR THE WYCH ELM PROJECT
email: Jane.Kelly2@virgin.net
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 Aberdeen, Banchory, 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 commissions include Dalhousie Castle
Hotel, the Traverse Theatre, and involvement in the








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