The landscape around Tyndrum is more than scenery, it is part of the work itself. The mountains, rivers and mineral seams of Glen Lochy provide many of the materials that find their way into our pottery.

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Wherever possible we work with what the land offers: clay from wild seams in the hills, minerals gathered from local streams, and quartz-rich material from the nearby Cononish gold mine on the slopes of Beinn Chùirn. Operated today by Acrux Gold, the mine follows a modern approach to responsible mining, working carefully within the surrounding Highland landscape.​ After they extract the gold, the remaining silica-rich quartz is normally discarded. We are fortunate enough to collect some of this material and give it a second life in our pottery, returning crushed mountain stone to the kiln in a new form.

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The gold itself also finds its way back into the work. Small quantities of Scottish alluvial gold are gathered by hand from local rivers and refined into a lustre glaze, returning the mountain’s metal to the surface of the finished piece.

In this way the mine and the studio share a quiet connection with the same landscape, each drawing carefully from the materials the Highlands provide.

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Each pot carries a small thread of that landscape with it, shaped by hand, transformed by fire, and connected to the place where it began.