Susan McGill is a ceramic artist and designer who works from her home in Fife. Her hand painted black and white designs are influenced by family life, tradition, nostalgia and her love of the Scots language. Susan’s work is both functional and decorative and ranges from large hand built items to mugs and cups. Her non-ceramic pieces include pressed birchwood trays, Perspex Luckenbooth brooches and beautiful limited edition handmade prints

I make mainly wheel thrown domestic and decorative ceramics including mugs, jugs and vases. I decorate each piece using the technique of sgrafitto: when the work is partially dry it’s dipped into a contrasting coloured slip. I then scratch the design through the colo u red layer to reveal the contrasting colour below . I have two different ranges of work; Botanical, inspired by weeds and wild flowers as well as seaweed, shells and pebbles and Geometric, where ideas come from mid - century pattern and modernist architecture.

Sandra draws influences from nature and architecture. With a vast spectrum to work from, this allows Sandra to produce various bodies of work. Sandra's work comprises of black free-hand intricately decorated vessels, earthy oxide striped vessels, colourful dishes and platters, all of which will be on showing at Winter Glow. To date Sandra's practice is also varied - collaborations with a local interior designer, collaborations with two local sculptors, skills-swapping with a local textile designer/printer, teaching in adult education settings, facilitating sessions in her studio for all ages and abilities, undertakes commissioned work and exhibits her own work.