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21/05/2026

Watching and listening to this little pot ti**le away as it cools is pretty magical.

The snowflake crackle comes to life as it’s pulled from the heat of the kiln. I set up a timelapse over the duration of 10 minutes, capturing the tiny splinters breaking their way through the surface.

12/05/2026

A reintroduction…

I’ve gained a few new followers since posting the big pots, so if you’re new here…hi!

My name’s Nadia, and I’m a potter, pottery studio manager, and pottery tutor (lots of pottery-related jobs involved) based in Glasgow, Scotland. I run .

Throwing on the wheel, and teaching other people how to throw, are my two greatest joys. Every other part of the process…the trimming, glazing, firing, and selling? They don’t quite compare. I get bored easily and I struggle a bit with finishing things, which is probably why I’m not especially good at keeping my website updated or doing markets regularly.

I’ve been making pots for over ten years now, and teaching for six. Teaching and running the studio are my main source of income, which is why I try to make time to play whenever I sit down at the wheel.

All that said, I’ll be taking part in Glasgow’s .co.uk at the end of this year. It’ll be my first large-scale market, and I’m really excited about it.

10/05/2026

A five minute real-time throw with 700g, no cuts or edits.

I’ve scaled down today, making three smaller vessels that represent much larger ones that are yet to be glazed. I don’t want to botch the glaze on the big pieces, so I’ll trial my ideas on little pieces first.

Snowflake crackle was one of the first glazes I mixed myself and used on my work in 2019. I haven't used it in a long wh...
04/05/2026

Snowflake crackle was one of the first glazes I mixed myself and used on my work in 2019. I haven't used it in a long while, but I imagine it on the big pots I'm making.

I made a small batch last week and trialled it on white stoneware, flecked stoneware and porcelain. I want to use it in conjunction with a dark plum, but I havent found a recipe for that yet. My friend kindly let me test some of the amaco range he has, so what you can see here is Chun Plum, Smokey Merlot and Firebrick.

When I was initially using this glaze years ago, I wasn't the one that pulled my pieces from the kiln. Now that I am, I had the absolute joy of listening to the pieces ti**le as they cooled, watching the glaze crack bit by bit. My friend suggested spritzing them with water as they cooled, which only made the process more delightful.

Big pots big problems...Four unglazed pots. The one on the far right has been bisque fired, the other three are greenwar...
03/05/2026

Big pots big problems...

Four unglazed pots. The one on the far right has been bisque fired, the other three are greenware.

I just want to make more...but then there's the kiln space, the limitation of my shelf space in the community studio. Where are they gonna go? Who's going to pay an absurd amount of money to buy one?...It's a lot of surface to glaze, which means a lot more potential for it to go wrong. Glazing is my least favourite part.

I'll keep four. I'm going to make another this week and the rule is, if it's better than the last it can replace it.

I've entered my big pot making era...
23/04/2026

I've entered my big pot making era...

A picture from a while back of me throwing the components of a teapot off the hump. Life seems to keep getting fuller. M...
22/04/2026

A picture from a while back of me throwing the components of a teapot off the hump.

Life seems to keep getting fuller. More things to do, more boxes to tick, to think about. I've stopped believing it will slow down.

I think I expected to feel less motivated, less creative, or too tired to make, but I'm learning it's the opposite. The busier I seem to get the more compelled I am to sit at the wheel.

When I started making pots in 2015 and I was working in retail, I would spend my shifts imagining the pots I wanted to make, drawing them on the back of receipt paper from the till.

I now manage a pottery studio and that feeling is still there. It's 11 years on, and I'm still sculpting bowls in my head waiting for the next gap in my day to make something.

I made a sister set to the previous white teapot and cup, but this time in black clay with a simple dark gloss coating.I...
13/04/2026

I made a sister set to the previous white teapot and cup, but this time in black clay with a simple dark gloss coating.

It doesn’t photograph particularly well. The clay and the glaze is kind of all encompassing and dense…but I like it. It’s nice to hold, it pours well and it feels like it makes sense as a piece, to me.

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