Pat Armstrong

Pat Armstrong has lived all her life in a small village close to Stamford in Lincolnshire. She is married with two grown up sons. Having worked for many years as a secretary, she decided at the age of 41 to go to Art College. Having discovered an affinity to clay and the wheel during an Arts Foundation Course at Tresham College in Kettering she then went onto the Sunderland Polytechnic School of Art and Design to pass a 3D Design BA(Hons) Course in Glass with Ceramics, winning the 1990 Charlie Bray Award for the best over all performance in Glass and Ceramics.

Since graduating from college, Pat has worked in her studio at home designing and making pots and finding success with her work through exhibitions, galleries and craft events.

Originally Pat’s designs were strongly influenced by the Anglo Saxon pots but following a progression from burnished and sawdust fired pots to Raku, the shapes have become more classical with elegant long necks, flared rim, round jars and bottle shapes, often with black resisted rings around the base of the neck.