About the Artist

Biography 

Mary Higgins

I recently retired from 30 years of teaching and now spend most of my time making ceramics in my garage in East Lothian, Scotland. I learnt skills and techniques in local community adult education classes, then gained wider experience in pottery studios in Edinburgh.

I take an experimental approach to making; exploring contrasts, layering textures, and using oxides and glazes on a clay canvas.  I like to use clay to catch and hold a memory of something which might otherwise be temporary, fleeting, seasonal or lost. A record in stoneware.

This series of bowls ‘Out to the Buoy’ are inspired by the view from the sea.