Pauline is based at her studio at Holy Loch Marina near Dunoon where her every day view takes in the boats, sea loch and surrounding hills. When not covered in clay, she can be found walking the forest paths and shores of Argyll, sketching everyday patterns both of nature and manmade while being immersed in the textures of the land.

Beginning her pottery journey as a hobby in 2003, family circumstances and fortuitous timing allowed Pauline to take the leap of faith into full time pottery work in 2016.  Over the next decade of being a potter, Pauline worked mainly as a production thrower developing a popular range of functional pieces.  She worked closely with a number of local and UK wide businesses to develop bespoke work for them while also running a programme of classes and courses to teach pottery skills.  

While continuing that work, Pauline’s creative line of enquiry took her down exploratory paths which are evident in her current body of work.

While her functional pieces depicted the landscape, Pauline’s attempts to capture the feeling of the landscape itself led her to investigate the use of locally foraged clay, river silts, wood ash and sand. Incorporating them into the clay and examining their use to give rich textures and surface patina paired with layers of glaze and ash. Her making techniques for these pieces is slower and more thoughtful, using coils, slabs, carving and pressing found objects. The finished works ground us to the rocks in their stillness and rivers in their wildness.

Pauline’s love of pattern and shape observed in the landscape and expressed through paper collage has been another strand of creative musing. True development only being made possible in 2025 with the awarding of a VACMA (Visual Arts Craft Maker Award) providing focus and additional materials to create the beginnings of the Collage Collection. These pots are fun and abstract with pops of colour and marks. The shapes and patterns you see in these works are sometimes literal, but others have travelled far from their original, giving these pieces a more light-hearted spirit.