Pottery Studio Life

The 2020 spring Mashiko Pottery Festival, 

which was cancelled in order to avoid the spread of the COVID 19 Virus, 

was open online from 29th April to 20th May.

The online pottery festival was great success. 

It was also very good experience for us. 

Thank you very much.

Euan is making pots, and recycling clay in his studio.

He is looking forward to share his new works!

Making pots in Nagano.....

Euan is away from home to make pots at his friends studio in Nagano on weekdays, and comes home on weekends. After the earthquake our friend, Laura Inoue, kindly offered Euan to lend her studio and kiln. She had built the kiln which Euan designed a couple of years ago.

He is still struggling to build a studio and kiln here in Minakami, so he is borrowing her studio with great appreciation.

Some people said to Euan, he has skills and knowledge so he should to help building kilns in Mashiko.

What is most important, though,  is that he can make a living from his pottery sales, so he is making pots for orders and his exhibition for his family.



We talk by Skype or telephone each night.

We all are looking forward to seeing him

on weekend.

Starting work...

It is not about Euan, but about myself.

I started to work at the Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art as a temporary worker from January 5th.

I haven't worked in an organisation for a long time. But since I married to Euan, I've helped him with all his pottery paper work, making customer addresses, sending post cards for his exhibitions, helping to design cards, taxation documents, etc.

And I think that I can learn so many things there through working for Museum.


I work from Tuesday to Saturday, so I can not work without my family's support and co-operation. I very much appreciate their help.


If you visit the Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, you might see me....