I spend a happy few hours at Potfest Scotland on Saturday. This is the 3rd year I’ve been to the event and it was interesting to see what has changed and what hasn’t. There was a very noticeable increase in the number of people with jewellery on their stalls (I guess because of the economy), which certainly gave me some new ideas. I treated myself to a pack of modelling tools and a ‘podpot’ by John Rivers of Riddings Pottery in Derbyshire.
This year’s purchase is similar to the design shown bottom right, but pea green in colour. I bought it to match an orange-red glazed one I bought last year, which is like the pot shown bottom left. I love how the shape of these makes you want to cup them in your hands; good pottery should always make you want to touch it in my opinion! (Click on the picture to visit his website).
Another potter whose work I have bought at Potfest in the past is Steph Jamieson. I love her smoke fired sculptural pieces; they are so tactile and have an almost bone-like quality to them.
Top of the list of things I would have bought if I’d had the funds, is a Raku pot by Pat Armstrong. She had some really fabulous ‘copper fumed’ pots which looked like they were decorated with nebulas and fiery suns, like something from Astronomy Picture of the Day.
I also loved the leaf wall plaques by Joan Hardie of the Bitter Beck Pottery in Cumbria. There was a really lovely one, similar to this picture (click on the thumbnail to visit her gallery), all matt autumnal colours, that would have looked a treat in my living room if it wasn’t way out of my price range!
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