Fiona Robertson is the potter behind Greenscares Pottery. She began her journey into the world of ceramics after stumbling across a little pottery in the far north of Scotland in 2014. She spent several years learning from professional potters and attending local classes, before continuing her ceramics education through a variety of workshops.

After setting up her own studio near Braco, Perthshire in 2018, Fiona honed her craft and began to find her ‘voice’ in ceramics, discovering a love of carving into clay using a variety of tools to create patterns and textures. Her work is evolving to also include added relief surface textures.

Working predominately in stoneware, the inspiration for the patterns in her work comes from the repetition seen in the wild flora and fauna in the glen where she lives. The colours she uses in her glazes reflect nature’s simple palette – the purple heather, deep green fields, rusty brackens in the winter and the many shades of blue in the vast Perthshire skies.

Fiona creates each piece slightly differently to make them unique whilst always retaining a functionality to make them useful as well as decorative.