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Dave Brittain:
1947 Born in Boscombe, Hampshire.
1963 - 1968 Southampton College of Technology; sheet metalwork, City and Guilds FTC with credit.
1971 - 1976 Opened and ran Gairloch Pottery making thrown tableware for the Scottish gift trade.
1976 M
oved to Canonbie, Dumfries and Galloway. Opened and ran Eskdale Pottery making thrown tableware and slip cast forms.
1980 Opened and ran Eskdale Painting Courses, teaching watercolour technique to groups on one week residential courses.
1982 One man exhibition at Gracefields art Centre, Dumfries; Paintings, Wooden constructions and found sculpture.
1983 One man exhibition at Galleria La Soffitta in Carbonia, Sardinia; Watercolours .
2011 Opened Hughsrigg Pottery at Canonbie.
2013 Potfest in the pens, Penrith. I make thrown stoneware pottery for exhibition, decorative and home use from - as far possible - locally sourced materials; wood ash from the household fires, Solway mud and clay from my own land. I am inspired by English and Japanese country pottery of the past and by our local landscape, including the plants, animals and people that inhabit it in order to create pots that speak for themselves. In the 70s when the fashion was for craft made artifacts the market was massive, trying to keep up with demand meant endless repetition and it was this repetition that developed my throwing skill. Now as a studio potter I am on a never ending quest for perfection and the nature of repetition has changed to become a satisfying means to continual development as an artist. Jacky Brittain:
1947 Born in Eastleigh, Hampshire.
1971 - 1976 Opened and ran Gairloch Pottery with my husband Dave making thrown tableware for the Scottish gift trade.
1976 Moved to Canonbie, Dumfries and Galloway. Opened and ran Eskdale Pottery making thrown tableware and slip cast for gift shops throughout the UK..
1998 Joined Society of Master Saddlers saddlery course under Mark Romain at Salisbury College.
2001 Achieved Qualification as Society of Master Saddlers “Qualified Saddler and Harness Maker “.
2012 Opened the Jacky Brittain Studio at Hughsrigg Pottery at Canonbie making figurative ceramic sculpture. Jacky makes figurative sculptures of animals and people, influenced by the countryside and the people of the countryside, past and present in stained and glazed stoneware fired in an oxidized atmosphere to 1260c. Her figures are individually hand built and sculpted, and convey the gentleness of her subjects. her aim is to express her feelings for them and hopefully influence the viewers feelings towards them also.
