Description: Watergaw Ceramics - Studio Pottery and In Glaze Reduction Lustre specialist in Whitehills, Scotland.
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Waterga w Ceramics home is in the former Methodist Church in Whitehills. I am the resident designer/maker, my name is Fiona Duckett and this is where I create my iridescent ceramics, all glazed with a unique glaze called 'In Glaze Reduction Lustre'. The Pottery has a shop and we are very happy to be open again normally to visitors. Opening hours are from 10am to 5pm Tuesday to Saturday. All covid restrictions have been lifted but we are asking you to use the hand sanitiser. If you still want to wear a mask
My making journey started really young when my Granny Mac taught me to crochet before I was 5 - I featured in a film about creativity in primary schools but thankfully (or sadly) this does not exist anymore! Before Clay (BC) I would have said I was definitely a textile person - sewing, knitting, crochet, and tapestry, but when I sat on a potter's wheel for the first time and made a pot I was hooked! I worked for two different potters in St Andrews - George Young and then Anne Lightwood. Anne encouraged me t
There are 3 types of Lustre glazes, Clay paste, resin and 'In Glaze' reduction Lustre which was developed over 2000 years ago to get around a religious ban on eating off Gold plates - the potters at the time were asked to develop a glaze that would mimic gold! All of them use metal salts to create the lustrous effect but have very different ways of applying and firing.