Pauline Beautyman creates hand crafted ceramics reflecting the textures, patterns and colours absorbed from her rural surroundings of Argyll, Scotland. Often expressing these observations through other media before creating her pots, the resulting collections of pottery become explorations themselves of natural textures and more playful arrangements of repeated shape and mark making patterns.
Pauline’s studio is open to visitors while she is working, please drop by or get in touch to find up to date opening times.
SHOP THE COLLECTIONS
TEXTURED COLLECTION
This collection is tactile, made to touch, like you reach out to an interesting rock surface or run your hand over a tree trunk’s rough bark. Varying bottle or pod forms provide an element of functionality if required, each with their own twist of texture, layers of glaze, or combination of both. These works try to capture something of the earth itself.
COLLAGE COLLECTION
Playful and fun, the collage collection brings together shapes, patterns and colour from Pauline’s observations and paper collage work. Each piece is a unique design. A closed palette of white, grey and black is held with a token colour representing a colour of the landscape: blue of the sea and the sky (if we are lucky), yellow and orange of lichen and seaweeds and pink of a particular outcrop of rocks on a nearby shoreline.
FUNCTIONAL COLLECTION
Pauline’s first love of throwing functional ware is still very much alive. You will always find a selection of her useful and well-made household pieces in the studio shop and at selling events. The favourites being mugs, short coffee cups, milk jugs and gin tumblers. Pauline changes the styles often but is always happy to make to order from the back catalogue of designs on request.
