Fiona Swepson - Potter

It is thought that in this age of high tech, AI and container loads of imports coming into the country from China, that no one makes anything any more! Wrong! As the stall holders at the Frost Fair and elsewhere give testimony our cottage craft industries are alive and well and producing beautifully made and designed items of which we can all be proud to own!

Fiona Swepson is just one such maker. Born in Boston, Fiona read Education and Mathematics at Homerton College Cambridge before becoming a primary school teacher. She taught in primary schools for 18 years until she and a friend decided to take up a hobby out of school hours. Fiona had always been keen on art taking after her mum, Lorraine Swepson who was also an artist and so enrolled at  the pottery classes run by Tony Orvis at Unique Cottage Studios. Well – she loved it! She admits pottery became her obsession, learning techniques with Tony and practising herself at home. Primarily specialising in porcelain and particularly interested in giving texture to the surfaces, slip trailing became a speciality.