Patricia Shone has lived and worked on the Isle of Skye for over thirty years. She grew up in South Devon, Scotland and started working with clay in school. She studied ceramics in London and worked as a chef there and in Italy. Eventually, she returned to Skye and returned to pottery. Shone rejoices in feeling small. Isle of Skye is a place where natural forces dominate the world around you to a moment of utter surrender. Her work is the isolation of that surrender and the physical materiality of the world. She balances the control of functional work with the impulse of the clay and texture. These vessels are a monument to the millennia of erosion and weathering which created the clay. She is a selected member of the Craft Potters’ Association of Great Britain and her work is collected internationally.