About
I first touched clay in about 2000 as I was finishing training as a nurse in Edinburgh. I saw a sign for evening classes in the Meadows Pottery, I had always wanted to have a go at throwing and after the first class I was hooked! Paul Tebble was a brilliant and very inspiring teacher and encouraged me to believe that this was something I could do as more than a hobby.
Over the following years I did many throwing courses in weekends and sometimes residential weeks between working as a nurse and having my three children. I set up a small space with a wheel and kiln in the old washhouse where I could practise.
In 2013 I graduated from Newcastle College with a Foundation Degree in Contemporary Ceramics in Practice after travelling down once a week for 3 years. I then set up Belinda Glennon Ceramics as a business. Ben, my husband, built a new studio for me in 2015 where I now work, which has natural light and a wood burner! Light and heat! A joy after working in the damp, cold dark washhouse for so long!
More about my creative process below…