My Collections
I live and work on the Isle of Skye, in the North West of Scotland. I have always preferred wilder more challenging landscapes and seascapes. The visible presence of the rock beneath the thin soils of the Highlands reminds me of the real substance of life, and how fragile the veneer. The textures of my work are here on a massive scale in the mountains, and it’s fundamentally the same material. So here, on the Isle of Skye, inspiration is all around me, under my feet and in my hands.
My motivation as an artist is to find my place in this.
These collections, Contour, Erosion and Midden, are distinct but connected, and are a continuation of my love of texture. I make mostly ceramic forms, bowls, jars, boxes, rather than direct representations of the landscape, because they are innately human vessels; they represent the human condition of surface and contents…
Contour
Erosion
Midden
Upcoming Events & Exhibitions
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21/03/2019 - 30/04/2020 |
Emmanuel Cooper PrizePatricia Shone, Winner of the Emmanuel Cooper Prize at Ceramic Art London 2019, works selected for the permanent collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum The Emmanuel Cooper award is given by The Craft Pottery Charitable Trust which was set up in 1991 under Emmanuel Cooper’s Chairmanship of the CPA to support educational activities associated with ceramic activity across the UK.. |
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06/08/2019 - 28/09/2019 10:00 am - 5:00 pm |
Inverness Museum & Art galleryTextures of a Land Foyer Craft Gallery, Inverness Museum & Art Gallery. I am delighted to be showing a collection of Erosion vessels in Inverness, the capital of the Highlands. These vessels are inspired by the textures I see around me in the landscape of the Isle of Skye and the Highlands. Inverness Museum & Art Gallery,, Castle Wynd , Inverness United Kingdom, |
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01/09/2019 - 13/10/2019 11:00 am - 6:00 pm |
Ways of BeingSix of the UK’s leading female ceramicists – one unique show Wendy Lawrence, Helen Michie, Patricia Shone, Tricia Thom, Michelle Young-Hares, Maggie Zerafa Celebrating the diversity of thought and technique in contemporary ceramics today. |
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14/09/2019 - 12/10/2019 10:00 am - 5:00 pm |
The Art of Gathering – the New Craftsman Gallery, St IvesThe exhibition, The Art of Gathering, will bring together artists and makers who use ‘gathering’ as an integral part of their practice. àite cruinneachaidh – gathering place (Scots Gaelic) Gathering is such an evocative notion, especially here in the Highlands. Gathering together often meant walking many miles on narrow tracks. My journey has been more of a gathering of myself and what is important to me, and ultimately finding my place in the world. Working with clay, knowing the processes and history of the material and its domestic uses always brings me back to how it connects human beings, how it gathers us together in a common humanity. The show also includes a local painter from Newlyn, Michael Porter showing his exquiste ‘Dirt Series’, the studio collective Forest and Found – naturally dyed applique textiles by Abigail Booth and wood vessels by Max Bainbridge (they have been selected this year for the Jerwood Makers prize ), silversmith Stuart Cairns and the Irish basketmaker Joe Hogan (finalist in the Loewe Foundation Craft prize 2018).
The New Craftsman Gallery, 24 Fore St, Saint Ives United Kingdom,
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