Anna is ‘Top of the Pots’

LOCAL woman Anna McGurn is a semi-finalist on Channel Four’s ‘Great Pottery Throw Down’.

Anna, who works in Camphill Community Clanobogan as a social care coordinator, has made it through to the semi-finals of the popular TV show.

The Great Pottery Throw Down is a pottery competition where contestants attempt to design pieces of art and utensils to win over the judges.

The show first aired on BBC Two in 2015 and the fifth series is currently airing at 7.45pm on Sundays on Channel 4.

Anna, who only started potting at 54, said the show was ‘challenging’ but that she has really enjoyed the experience.

The amateur potter said, “It was great fun, it was a huge learning curve and my first instinct was fear but after you start and get absorbed in what you are doing… the fear disappears and you
realise it’s challenging in a good way.

“It felt like an adventure and you didn’t know the ending, so the best thing to do was embrace it in all its madness.”

Anna is a fairly recent convert to pottery and her interest developed a few years ago when a ceramic workshop for adults with learning disabilities opened where she worked.

“Although I was not directly involved in the workshop I was fascinated. I then spoke about it quite a lot to my partner Skip and I came home one Friday to find that he had made space in his shed and equipped it with a treadle wheel…thus it began!”

You can cheer Anna on when she appears on the the show’s semi-final this Sunday at 7.45pm on Channel 4.