Clay Coven are three friends, Lillian, Aimie and Kirsty who met through their shared love of ceramics. At the end of 2020 we ran a successful Crowdfunder campaign to help us to set up the Clay Coven Studio.
Lillian Shipton - Art Psychotherapist, Ceramicist and Facilitator
Lillian is a ceramicist and art psychotherapist. She specialises in wheel thrown ceramics, her pieces are bold and colourful each with their own practical use. As an art psychotherapist she is experienced in working with people who have experienced gender-based violence, trauma, PTSD, complex-PTSD as well a anxiety and stress.
Aimie Brown - Ceramicist and facilitator
Aimie is a Ceramics Edinburgh College of Art graduate, she now works as a ceramics teacher with experience in specialist skills teaching pupils with learning difficulties and complex needs. She specialises in handbuilt and wheel thrown ceramics with unique, textured and lively pieces.
Kirsty Anderson - Ceramicist
Kirsty is a full-time ceramicist selling her works in a number of shops, markets and online locations. She is an accomplished wheel throwing ceramicist, making refined and beautiful homewares. Kirsty graduated with a texties degree from Grays School of Art in Aberdeen, her ceramics are inspired by nature and the path it leaves behind on the landscape. The vessels themselves are simple shapes taken from her interest in the aesthetics of past objects - milk churns, chemistry beakers and enamel wear.