Pat Southwood has been making pots in an old Thatchers yard at the heart of the Norfolk Broads since graduation in 1999. After selection by the Craft Potters Association that year as one of the years most promising newcomers Pat Southwood has combined her post graduate training in Japan with images and materials from her local farming environment. Anthropogenic ceramics - the effect of Man on the landAt her workshop in Salhouse (next to Salhouse Broad car park) Pat Southwood hand throws pots on the wheel and glazes them with recycled local thatching reed.By her use of surface patterns and by re- using local products in such an original way Pat Southwood is making her work totally unique to Norfolk..Pats' Japanese studies culminated in the summer of 2009 with a seven week residency with IWCAT in the ancient pottery town of Tokoname. Impressed by her work, a local gallery (Gallery CoCoLo) has invited her back for an exhibition in October 2010