Allison Weightman is based in East Lothian after leaving her remote home in the NW Highlands, 10 years ago.

The move was mostly driven by her wish to share her self-learning of Ceramics with others, and she now teaches at the Edinburgh Ceramics Workshops in the Abbeymount Studios, Edinburgh and from her studio at home.

The move also initiated her drive to explore higher temperatures (previously focusing on Raku and smoke firing) in her gas kiln and multiple firings to obtain the rich glazes that adorn her hand-built ceramics. She also experiments with found clay and organic materials. 

Still inspired by her visits to her self-built home on the Scoraig peninsula, she produces work that emulates the Highland landscapes, that she holds close to her heart, and the colour palette that can only be the West coast.

“The sumptuous glazes that I create for my work are multi -layered and multi-fired, sometimes using up to 5 or 6 different glazes and firing up to three times in an electric kiln to 1250. “This is the only way I can obtain the sense of the movement in the glazes that  create the landscapes that appear.

 She is also known for her ‘Shotgun’ work. This work started back in the early 2000’s when she decided to highlight gun-crime and the devastation it causes, during her time studying Ceramics at Edinburgh College of Art. She has turned this into an Art-form that is unique to the process.

 Her work is found in public and private collections across the globe and she continues to deliver Ceramic education across Scotland.