JANE KELLY, POTTER
remembering friendly Alan Gaff of Argyll Pottery who died in a
motorbike accident
Jane Kelly: Penicuik Pottery at Valleyfield
off 17 High Street Penicuik EH26 8HS
“…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 Winter and Summer Schools
Scottish Potters
Exhibitions:
Dumfries Fire &
Earth Nov 2011 - Jan 2012 pictures
Glasgow Fire & Fibre
Nov-Dec 2011 pictures preparation
Fochabers Autumn 2010
Alloa Summer 2010 preparation pictures catalogue
Perth Bield 2009 Pots
& Baskets overview 1st pictures 2nd pictures catalogue
Milton of Crathes
Spring 2009 pictures&catalogue
Stirling Smith 2008 pictures catalogue
Cromarty 2008 Pots
& Baskets workshop pictures
January 2010: back from New Zealand & looking ahead
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 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
Jane Kelly chairs the Scottish Potters Association www.scottishpotters.org.
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, Alloa 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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to revive the SCOTTISH CRAFT CENTRE
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