George Young Pottery

George Young is a potter. He went to art college in Dundee and taught pottery at Peebles High School before setting up his own pottery.

The problem with pottery is that when you’re buying a pot, you’re buying a piece of time. It’s not like a machine that you can turn the knob up and make it go faster, it’s not like a warehouse where you can just go and get another box off the shelf if people want more things. Each thing takes a specific amount of time.

It’s totally labour intensive. And especially when you do everything… I mix the clay, I mix the glazes, I make the pots, fire them, decorate them, glaze them. All the processes, each one of those takes a certain amount of time.