Alan's Blog?
alanfromargyllpottery.blogspot.com
My Bletherings.
David Gardner Website Design
www.dg-web.co.uk
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Joe Finch Kilns
www.joefinchkilns.co.uk
Find out what my old boss at Appin Pottery, Joe is up to these days.
Joe's wife Trudi Finch's Fairy Cards.
www.trudifinch.co.uk
See what Trudi is doing now at- www.trudifinch.co.uk
More Finch Family at Winchcombe Pottery
www.winchcombepottery.co.uk
Find out what Ray and Mike etc are up to these days.
More Potters at Studio Pottery.
www.studiopottery.co.uk
More Potters and Gallery sites in the UK.
More Potters that worked at Appin Pottery.
www.jcjpottery.co.uk
JCJ or Jonathan Chiswell Jones had worked for Joe some years before I started at Appin. He makes great pots down in the south east of England.
More Potters that worked at Appin Pottery.
www.crownstudio.co.uk
Graham and Lynda Taylor were at Appin when I first went there both really good potters though Lynda does more painting now, in fact it was partly because I talked to Graham that I plucked up enough courage to ask Joe if I could do an apprenticeship so I suppose you could say it was all his falt that I am here! They are both working at crown studio in the north of England now.
Mr Jim Speers Pottery
www.jimspeers.com
Really nice pottery and great website over in Canada.
Mr R & Mrs C Selfridge's Ceramic Art.
www.selfridgeceramicart.ca
Really interesting pottery and some very intriguing things on their website over in Canada.
Mr Shiho Kanzaki.
www.the-anagama.com
Really very nice woodfired pottery done the old way in Japan. Very, very good site too.
Scottish Potters Association
www.scottishpotters.co.uk
OK here comes the sales pitch - (Though I’m not on commission)...
I have found it very worthwhile belonging to the SPA anyone from the complete amateur to hardened professionals are among our ranks, not only do you get to be on the web site, potters map and the exhibitions, there are Workshop meeting three or four times a year, I don’t get to all of them by any means but the ones I have been to have enabled me to save thousands of pounds in man hours and costs, even if the kind of demonstration on offer at one event isn’t your bag, if you keep an open mind you will most likely see a tip or get a recipe you would not have thought of otherwise, I know I have. Also if you run in to a technical problem you can ask for help, I have been potting now for over twenty five years and you would have thought I’d have come across most problems by now but I was stumped by something only a few months ago and the only way I got a sensible answer to the problem was to ask around my SPA friends. If I never become inspired by or get another tip from any more meetings I go to (which I very much doubt will be the case), I have saved my subscription to them for life many, many times over already. I have never met a more helpful enthusiastic and giving crowd as my fellow potters but you do not bother to go and meet them unless you are in an organisation like the SPA. If you are a Ceramicist working in Scotland I urge you to join, I know it might sound like it would be a load of boring old farts but I think you’d be surprised.
Speyside Pottery, Thomas + Anne Gough.
www.speysidepottery.co.uk
Nice wood fired pots made up Speyside way
(Thomas started his potting with us at Appin Pottery).
Stuart Whatley at Edinbane Pottery
www.edinbane-pottery.co.uk
Nice Wood fired and Salt glazed pottery made on Skye.
What to do & where to stay.
www.kinlochlaich-house.co.uk
Kinlochlaich House & Garden Centre in Appin just a wee bit up the road has lovely self catering holiday cottages set in beautiful gardens (You can even buy a nice plant to go in your Argyll Pottery flower pot!)
What to do.
www.feochanmhorsmokehouse.co.uk
You can get lovely traditionally smoked salmon, trout and all sorts of other tasty stuff just south of Oban, it's a good day out too.
What to do.
www.castlestalkerview.co.uk
Even if it were not a very nice place to see Castle Stalker from it would still be a great place to have a nice coffee or meal, Castle Stalker View, a very good wee cafe/restaurant north of here.
What to do.
www.keltiaart.com
Keltia Celtic Art is in the wee village of Connel just down the road from here where you can see some really nice Celtic and Picttish art work.
What`s happening in Ceramics, Reviewed.
www.ceramicreview.com
Find out most of whats going on in ceramics in Britain today.
Where to go when your here.
www.steamtrain.info
If you are a fan' of the other kind of Potter (the Harry veriety that is) take a trip on the train to - well it's not Hogwarts really, just the wee town of Mallaig but it is the train they use in the films! Try the Jacobite Steam Train.
Where to stay.
www.dalrannoch.fsnet.co.uk
Dalrannoch Farm B+B, Fred+Irene are right next door to us! (Well as next door as you can be round here).
Where to stay.
www.creran-moorings.demon.co.uk
Creran Moorings. Places to stay on or off the water.
Where to stay.
www.tralee.com
Tralee Bay Holiday Park. Places to stay near the water. South of us.
Where to stay.
www.eriska-hotel.co.uk
On The Isle of Eriska, very nice!
Where to stay.
www.barcaldinehousehotel.com
The Big House, very nice.
Where to stay.
www.strathmorehotels.com/roya_site/index.htm
Right in the centre of the big town (Oban) The Royal Hotel.
Where to stay.
www.airds-hotel.com
Round at Port Appin, very nice.
Where to stay.
www.appinholidayhomes.co.uk
Just as you get in to Appin you will find Appin Holiday Homes. Really nice places to stay overlooking the water. North of us.
Where to stay.
www.manorhouseoban.com
The Manor House.
In the big town (Oban).
Great food, very nice and near the yatch club overlooking Oban bay.
Where to stay.
www.knipochhotel.co.uk
Knipoch House Hotel.
Just a few miles south of Oban. On the Loch side. Very Nice.
Where to stay.
www.lochcreranview.co.uk
Just across the road and up the hill from here, lovely B+B with spectacular views across the bay. Peter & Edith MacKinnon run a great place.
www.ukpotters.co.uk
www.ukpotters.co.uk/wsn/Potters/Woodfired
More potters working in the UK.
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