Many of you will already have met Sheila on previous Summer courses at Wobage. Apprentice to Jeremy for 2009/2010, Sheila received the first grant under the ‘Adopt a Potter’ charity, initiated by Lisa Hammond. Sheila will be technician to the courses in 2010.

Sheila was a professional basket maker for over thirteen years, before changing her path towards the materials of clay and fire. Her current pots are predominantly wheel-thrown with some hand-built additions. The work is visceral and impassioned,  combining a kind of abstract expressionism with subtle and robust functional shapes.

Since the beginning of her apprenticeship at Wobage in September 2009, she has participated in packing and  firing gas and wood-fired salt-kilns, in which a selection of her work has been fired alongside Jeremy’s.