Lou Lothian

My work is inspired by the natural beauty of the land and sea I have experienced in my time living on the coast in the East Neuk of Fife in Scotland and now in Herefordshire. I come from a design background and I learnt to throw in order to make pots to decorate. I unapologetically make two contrasting styles of pots. Those representing my view of the Scottish surf are full of texture, colour and glissening glazes. By contrast my pots that are rooted in Herefordshire use slips in a painterly fashion to evoke a sense of the land that is at the heart of rural life. Using throwing slip and coloured slips together with glazes applied in interesting layers, I look to capture the energy, flow and transitions in colour and texture that nature's palette offers us.