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Martine Greig – Lovely Ceramic Elephants

Events, Festive Makers Market 2015

Martine started painting more than 20 years ago. Eight years ago she started a pottery course at the Kirkcaldy Art Club and from then on ceramic tools have slowly taken over from paint brushes. Her hand-built elephants each have their own unique character and vary in size, shape and appearance. She’s not completely pushed her paints to the side though. Little mixed media paintings get made into notebooks, and lino prints are made into gift tags, cards and notebooks. All very lovely. Form an orderly queue now!

Martine notebook1Martine will have a table at our forthcoming INVERKEITHING FESTIVE MAKERS MARKET, on Saturday 12th December 11AM 4.30PM at the Inverkeithing Civic Centre, Queen Street, KY11 1PA.

Martine elephant3

Martine elephant2

 

martine greig_examples of work

 

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Seacycle – ” an abundance of sea china”

ART:JAM 2015, Events

Seacycle will be joining IAI for our third Art & Craft Market in Inverkeithing on 12th September, displaying and selling decorated plaques made with lovingly selected sea pottery, and hand-carved Celtic and sea-inspired designs on washed up slates.

“What started as a fascination for things that I found when beach combing like pottery shards, coloured sea-glass, washed-up slate and shells became a full-blown hobby – often coming home with my pockets full of treasures.

After years of collecting I thought I would try my hand at making something out of it so that other people can have a little piece of history of the Fife Coast.”

seacyle close-up

seacycle slatePenguin

“There was always an abundance of sea china around the Kirkcaldy area, probably a result of the past history of many pottery works which sadly no longer exist. The earliest history of pottery recorded was about 1610. By the end of the 19th century there were four main potteries, Fife, Kirkcaldy, Rosslyn and Sinclairtown from around 1837-1932. They used a variety of techniques that made functional and decorative ceramics including hand-painting and sponge printing. Lots of the pieces I have found date back over 150 years verified by the finishing.