JANE KELLY, POTTER

remembering friendly Alan Gaff of Argyll Pottery who died in a motorbike accident 15 September 2008

Jane Kelly: Penicuik Pottery at Valleyfield House

off 17 High Street Penicuik EH26 8HS

TEAPOTS MORE TEAPOTS

MARINERS TEAPOTS

PENICUIK PLATES & ASHETS

PENICUIK JUGS

BUTTERDISHES & SALTSHAKERS

DALHOUSIE DISHES

BOWLS

“…LOVE the plates, bowls and mugs…they are pretty much my favourite things ever…They are so beautiful they manage to transport a mundane weekday baked potato and beans into a work of art!”

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

2009 Scottish Potters & Basketmakers exhibition at Perth

CARTHAGE MUST BE DESTROYED BEAKERS AND JUGS

RAKU AT PENICUIK POTTERY FOR THE WYCH ELM PROJECT

Pottery is open 10-12am Saturdays or by appointment

through the pend and down the drive

at 17 High Street, Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 8HS

tel: 01968 677854

email: Jane.Kelly2@virgin.net

some of Jane Kelly’s work is also at Penicuik Arts Centre in the Gallery Café Craft Shop, 4 West Street, Penicuik

Jane Kelly is exhibitions organiser of the Scottish Potters Association. Scottish Potters & Basketmakers Cromarty weekend 2007

JANE KELLY, POTTER writes:

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 Royal Botanic Garden’s Wych Elm Project.

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