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Belinda Glennon

Belinda was training as a nurse when she joined an evening ceramics class and became hooked. She realised that this was something that could be more than just a hobby, so between working as a nurse and bringing up her 3 children, she completed numerous pottery courses and residencies, before graduating with a foundation degree in contemporary ceramics in 2013. Belinda, who is based in the Scottish Borders, works in white stoneware and porcelain, decorated with her own glazes, mixed to reflect the textures and colours of the Isle of Harris, where she spent a lot of time on holiday with grandparents and family as she grew up. She still visits the island as often as she can and takes much inspiration from its rugged coastline and light for her pieces, which are both functional and decorative.

Find out more at https://belindaglennon.co.uk

Kristine Blackbourn

Kristine is a Perthshire potter who specialised in Raku pottery and alternative firing techniques. She describes this as a very natural, simple process, which can produce beautifully complex and unpredictable patterns in the finished pieces. Some vessels are fired three or four times to get the desired colour, detail and depth to the finished surface. She believes that pottery is made to be enjoyed by sight and touch and alternative firing techniques bring pottery to life with a wide range of textures and colours.

Find out more rakubyk.co.uk - Kristine Blackbourn Scottish alternative fired Potter,

twists glass studio

Michael Hunter runs Twists Glass Studio at Selkirk in the Scottish Borders. He is an artist, educator and author and has been working with glass for over 50 years. His passion for glass started after finding an antique filigree marble in his school playground. He went on to work as an apprentice glass blower for Wedgewood Glass and to become one of the UK's leading contemporary glass artists, internationally recognised for his museum-quality works.

Find out more at Twists Glass Studio / Artist Studios | The Tin Shed

goat willow pottery cic

Goat Willow Pottery CIC as a not-for-profit community pottery social enterprise, set up by potter Sue Barclay to create an inclusive and supportive environment within the local community. The pottery uses revenue from classes to provide opportunities for subsidised places. Sue who studied ceramics at Grays School of Art in Aberdeen decided to set up the community pottery, after she went on to work with adults with learning disabilities, helping them to create wonderful and unique pottery pieces.

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Ali Barden

Ali is a ceramicist, based in Northumberland. After graduating in art and ceramics she went on to teach in primary education. It was only after taking early retirement that she was able to spend more time in her pottery studio. She now spends her time creating small scale ceramic sculpture based on her immediate environment and relationships with the surrounding landscape and family. She likes to combine words and poetry with the colours and textures of local land and seascapes, using a variety of techniques, including digital transfer.

Find out more at Ali Barden / Studios | Pottery North

Jacque O'shea pottery

Jackie handmakes stoneware, in small batches, from her garden studio in Edinburgh, with most pieces starting life on the pottery wheel. She creates mostly functional pottery, combining simple contemporary form with colour, texture and occasionally, stamped or hidden words and personalised messages. No two pieces are ever exactly the same, due to being handcrafted. Her range includes everything from mugs and cups, to jugs, butter and tapas dishes, serving bowls and trinket dishes. Jackie believes that handmade pottery should be useful, enjoyable and something you reach for again and again. Made slowly, in small batches, one piece at a time.

Find out more about her work Jacque O'Shea OShea Pottery Ceramics Handmade Edinburgh Scotland | Jacque O'Shea Pottery

AileenLi Ceramics

Aileen was born in Shanghai, China and moved to Peebles in late 2021. Her ceramics journey began after she completed a government-funded ceramics course back in 2020. She has gone on, from strength-to-strength. Favouring bold colours and simple shapes, most of her work is hand-painted, with abstract patterns inspired by nature. She describes her pieces as contemporary organic - modern and expressive.

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Peebles pottery

Peebles Pottery is a small independent studio nestled in the heart of the Scottish Borders. Set up in 2020 by Gabrielle Meehan shortly after she graduated, she turned her passion for pottery into a space for others to learn. Since then, she has taught hundreds of students the art of wheel throwing and hand building and the studio has become a creative hub with weekly classes and regular studio members. Gabrielle's own work focuses on functional and decorative stoneware, thrown on the wheel and fired in a gas kiln, influenced by the principles of Japanese pottery of finding beauty in imperfection, in the marks left by the making process.

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Helen Pugh-Cook

Helen produces unique ceramic pieces using a range of experimental techniques. Using mostly stoneware clay, she fires her work using various techniques, including Raku. Her main influences come from the shape of Asian artifacts she has collected, and colours and textures come from the beautiful countryside surrounding her home in the Scottish Borders.

Find out more www.instagram.com/hpc_ceramics

karen wong Ceramics

Karen graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) majoring in Ceramics and Master of Fine Art from the RMIT in 2017 and 2019. She was selected as an artist of the IV. International Ceramics Triennial UNICUM 2018 in The National Museum of Slovenia and was awarded by the Hong Kong Art Centre for a month Artist-in-Residency at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. She went on to co-found ceramic studio Mudheytong Gallery in Hong Kong and this year, founded Karen Wong Ceramics shop in Kelso. Karen's ceramics explore form, texture and material - drawing inspiration from nature’s simplicity and the disciplined restraint of Japanese minimalist aesthetics.

Find out more at www.karenwongceramics.com

LORNA bLUNT

Lorna Blunt, runs Pirniepots from her studio in the Scottish Borders, creating pottery with a purpose - beautiful, functional stoneware pieces, to eat, drink and serve from. All food safe, oven proof and machine washable. Her designs are driven largely by her passion for cookery - she says her bowls and dishes should complement and enhance the effort put into creating homemade food and her mugs are designed to sit warm and comfortable in the hand. Following an earlier career in textiles, millinery and teaching art, Lorna says she has now found something she really loves doing.

Find out more @pirniepots on Instagram.

Poppie wood creative studio

Poppie Wood is a Scottish multidisciplinary artist and researcher, whose work mainly focuses on sculpture. She was born in the Highlands and is now based in Glasgow, where she recently graduated in Fine Art (Sculpture and Environmental Art) (BA Hons. 1st Class) from Glasgow School of Art. At her Degree Show, she was awarded the Healy Arts Charity Prize for Excellence in Sculpture. Sustainability and climate change lie at the core of her practice and underline much of her research and development.

Find out more at www.poppiewoodcreativestudios.com

iona art glass

Iona Art Glass, run by Alison Milligan, is based in Northumberland, but they carry out restoration, conservation, repair and new design of stained-glass windows on a myriad of buildings across the country, from churches to public buildings, restaurants and private houses. The company, set up 50 years ago, specialises in conservation and restoration - bringing broken panels of stained glass back to their former glory - but also designing , creating and installing new panels. They also create smaller decorative art pieces using both stained and fused glass.

Find out more at www.iona-art-glass.co.uk

John scott

John set up Sourdust Pottery in 1991 at the age of 19 and quickly gained a reputation for innovative handmade, bespoke pottery, supplying a wide range of quality gift retailers and galleries throughout the UK. Based at Stocksfield in Northumberland, John creates a variety of unique pottery, including Naked Raku and Copper Matt Raku, which make up his main area of work. He is a regular exhibitor at Potfest events as well as numerous trade shows.

Find out more at Sourdust Pottery - Home | Handmade Pottery | Northumberland

Linda Scott-robinson Artist

Linda is a landscape painter, who works mostly in watercolours, acrylics and mixed media. Based in north Northumberland, she gains much inspiration for her work, from the surrounding countryside. She describes her work as an exploration of colour and light in the landscape with a tendency towards the dramatic, as she wanders through her days, constantly distracted by the little jewels of colour and light flitting across the countryside.
Linda works from outdoor paintings, sketches and photographs to produce work that conveys those precious moments.

Find out more at Linda Scott-Robinson / Artist Studios | The Tin Shed

Birgitta bennecke Artist

Originally from Brazil, artist Birgitta Bennecke now lives in the Scottish Borders, where she continues her colourful creativity, in her own unique, south American style. She will be joining at Pottery North Fair at the Haining, with a collection of her original work, which includes a range of canvas paintings, from very large to smaller scale pieces. She will also bring along a small range of unusual painted pieces, mostly hand-created pieces by her or in collaboration with other makers...and some upcycled items too.

Find out more at www.facebook.com/birgitta.bennecke

Deborah Fallas Artist

Deborah Fallas, who is based in the Scottish Borders, started her art career in textiles. Now she concentrates on painting love to paint the landscapes surrounding her home, in which she celebrates the pure joy and colour contrasts of flower studies. Her original paintings begin life as photographs and plein air sketches, taken and created when she is out and about. She paints with colourful, bold, quick expressive brushstrokes and built up layers, along with added texture made from scratching, scraping or maybe pencil marks. Her work explores the importance of contrast and is increasingly abstract in style but always rooted in nature.

Find out more at home | deborah fallas art

Nev storer retrospective

Artist Nev Storer, who lived in the Scottish Borders, was a regular exhibitor at many of our Tin Shed events, always accompanied by his wife Moira. Sadly Nev, who had been battling a long illness, died last year. We were delighted to welcome Moira, with a retrospective exhibition of his work at Pottery North Fair at The Haining in 2026.

After graduating with his rts' degree, Nev went on to train as a teacher, later working with children with emotional, behavioural and special needs. Working solely in oil on canvas, Nev's paintings range from naturalistic depictions of the real world, into what he described as "paintings of the mind" which enabled him to explore human nature with all its strengths and frailties but with an overwhelming theme of hope and resilience. Find out more about Nev's work at Bio | Nev Storer-Artist

deryk henley artist

Artist Deryk Henley is based in the Scottish Borders and has built his long career around figurative work, mostly in pencil and batik. Self-taught, he had his first exhibition at the London Exchange in 1970. His career has taken him across Europe, then into teaching textiles and to set up a company designing giftware. Since selling the business he runs life drawing sessions and oil painting workshops having rediscovered his love of oils. Deryk exhibited some of his figurative and portrait work at our first Borders' Pottery North Fair in 2026. He also staged live portrait drawing of visitors, to help raise funds towards The Haining's restoration fund.

Find out more at Deryck Henley

nadja khalil musician

Nadja grew up in Switzerland but has lived in Scotland for over a decade, She moved to the Galashiels about 3 years ago, where she now spends much of her time writing and performing her own music - mainly acoustic songs on her ukulele. There's quite a bit of storytelling in her songwriting - she says they can end up both happy and sad. She began playing gigs this summer, including the opening for Withered Hand at MacArts. As well as performing her own material, she says she often throws in a few unexpected covers. She joined us for two sets each day at our first Borders Pottery North event in 2026.

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