Corsock based slipware potters Doug Fitch and Hannah McAndrew, are going to be on our television screens this week, not just once, but three times.
Last July, the couple were visited by ceramics restorer Kirsten Ramsey, and the camera crew from Repair Shop on the Road. During the visit, Kirsten was invited to try out some of the techniques that the couple employ to make their pottery, including throwing on the potters wheel, and decorating a pot with liquid clay, or slip.
Hannah said, ‘We had great fun when the Repair Shop came to visit our workshop. Kirsten is such a sweet lady, and it was a real pleasure to spend some time with her.’
The show airs in Scotland on BBC One on Monday, 20th January at 8pm, and is repeated on Thursday 23rd January at 7.30pm. It will be available on iPlayer, shortly after being broadcast, and it will be aired over the border, in February.
The couple switch channel on Friday evening at 7pm, when they are featured in ITV Border’s popular magazine programme Border Life.
Presenter Bruce McKenzie spent a day at their workshop before Christmas, filming an article about the recent acquisition of a piece each of their work, for the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
If you would like to see their pots ‘in the flesh’, Doug and Hannah currently have their pieces on display in the Upland: Decade exhibition in Kirkcudbright Galleries, until 9th March.
