Varie started pottery as a hobby 40 years ago. She began with hand-building & then developed skills on the wheel. She works a lot with red earthenware clay & developed designs using majolica glazes & oxides. Since taking early retirement, she has bought a kiln & now works in stoneware & white earthenware clays - mainly hand building using slabs, coils & moulds. Varie loves constructing forms and shapes with clay in various states, either soft coils or leather hard sections. She uses a clear glaze, as the decoration for her is the most important part. This is inspired by printing & textile design. On stoneware clay Varie uses coloured slips to decorate, sometimes in a very fluid way with brushes & sometimes in a more precise way using the sgraffito technique.

Varie Freyne is based in the north-east of England and is a member of the Northern Potters Association.

For more information, please contact Varie

Email: vmcdfreyne21@hotmail.co.uk

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