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    Beaverhall Art Studios
    27 Beaverhall Road
    Edinburgh
    EH7 4JE

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    Cyan Clayworks is a Community Interest Company, set up in 2012 by Fiona Thompson and Chris Donnelly. Established ceramic makers, they have both taught widely in colleges, community and healthcare settings and other venues. They have worked in a variety of locations and studios over the years. They moved in to the space at Beaverhall Studios (a former factory and now a thriving artists studio complex in northern Edinburgh) to establish an open access space for all things ceramic. In mid 2023 the studio will be relocating as Beaverhall House is to be redeveloped…details to follow…



    Fiona studied at Edinburgh College of Art (BA hons) and the University of Sunderland (M.Phil), and has been making ceramics since the mid 1990s. Her work often explores souvenirs, tourism, and museum collections and themes of nostalgia and memory. She mainly handbuilds her non-functional vessels, building up layered surfaces with slips, glazes and decals. Over the last couple of decades she had taken part in national and international artist residencies, written for publication and exhibited her work widely.

    Chris is predominantly a tableware maker. After studying at Alberta University of the Arts and Nova Scotia College of Art in Canada, he has travelled, taught and exhibited widely, moving to Scotland in 2002. He makes pots for the table and kitchen, both on the wheel and with the jigger jolley process. The surface of his work varies from a rich palette of glaze colours, to lino printed pattern and photographic decals. Always keen to keep on learning and developing new approaches to ceramic practice, he is currently using a 3D printer to make models for plaster moulds.

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    Pottery - products & services , Craft production - products & services

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