Fiona Newby Artist

Fiona Newby Artist Message me for any enquiries, all my pieces need new homes. Hi,
thank you for viewing my page. Madam Cholet is a name my man Mark calls me.

Smoke firing is totally absorbing me at the moment, using foil saggars, the foil traps the combustibles which slowly smolder and burn, their marks leaving distinctive designs behind. A bit about me; I'm recently married thus my name change, sorry FKCeramics, but that's not my name anymore, so Fiona Newby is me, I'm a newbeeeee. All my pottery is fired to 1225oC, stoneware temperatures, and are sui

table for outside being weatherproof. I take my inspiration from positive things, things that make me happy: flowers, birds, angels, boats to name a few. Also, the human form, especially the curves in pregnancy I find simply lovely, I had the honor of drawing a pregnant woman whilst at university, then being pregnant myself was inspirational, the shapes have never left me and feature in my coil pots. Recently I've been playing with wire and drift wood, I've been really happy with the results. I'm an avid collector of essential' things, these things will appear in some way or another in my work. Recently I've enjoyed designing my own cards, using many of my essential finds to decorate these. Life is a crazy journey, I appreciate all that I have, so I'm enjoying mine, whilst playing with clay. Fiona x
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Pintrest- https://www.pinterest.co.uk/FiNewby/_saved/

Busy day yesterday, thank you to my hubby for always being there. My friend helped videoing, she’s still an apprentice.L...
01/06/2026

Busy day yesterday, thank you to my hubby for always being there. My friend helped videoing, she’s still an apprentice.
Love this Emotion Form, what do you think?




Last nights Saggar Firing, the pieces are washed, dried and polished.Super happy with this Mother Earth, how gorgeous is...
01/06/2026

Last nights Saggar Firing, the pieces are washed, dried and polished.
Super happy with this Mother Earth, how gorgeous is she. She’ll be coming with me to Potfest in the Pens this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.




17/05/2026

What a fabulous weekend Playing with Earth & Fire
thank you for organising for a great venue.
Thank you for the enthusiasm of all who came. We used some amazing combustibles, too many to mention 🩸🥑🧅🦪🪽amazing imagination and creativity.

Super happy with the results, everyone’s pieces survived the firing, the unveiling was like Christmas, I played Santa.
The pieces will buff up beautifully when totally dry (photos are fresh from being washed)

Thank you to all those who visited my stall this weekend, wow what a fabulous weekend it was. THANK YOU. fantastic to me...
19/04/2026

Thank you to all those who visited my stall this weekend, wow what a fabulous weekend it was. THANK YOU.
fantastic to meet you, thank you for your lovely comments, you made my day 💕

Car is unpacked, just need a magic wand to put everything away 🤷🏼‍♀️🤪🪄

& you were the best neighbours xx I do feel so lucky to part of the clay family, of mud lovers.
To the organisers of you have done an amazing job, great organisation as usual, thank you for allowing us potters to showcase all our creations 👍🏼🙏🏼




All set up and ready for you at Kelham Island Museum. 60 potters all showcasing their wears.Open today until 4, tomorrow...
18/04/2026

All set up and ready for you at Kelham Island Museum. 60 potters all showcasing their wears.
Open today until 4, tomorrow 11-5




👑Crowning Glories 👑 shall be coming with me to Kelham Island for Sheffield Ceramics Festival this weekend.I first made t...
16/04/2026

👑Crowning Glories 👑 shall be coming with me to Kelham Island for Sheffield Ceramics Festival this weekend.
I first made these using some left over pizza oven heavily grogged clay. I loved making them, so thought they’d make an interesting addition to my stall. Displaying them was a challenge but think my technical director (hubby)has mastered it yet again 👍🏼💕
What do you think??




My fabulous old kiln has hit another mile stone, it fired it’s 300th firing yesterday. A raw stoneware firing of a new r...
09/04/2026

My fabulous old kiln has hit another mile stone, it fired it’s 300th firing yesterday.
A raw stoneware firing of a new range, more to follow 💕


Excited to be part of this event. 👍🏼
04/04/2026

Excited to be part of this event. 👍🏼

Fiona creates hand built unique piNorthern Potters Association m and emotions. Saggar or naked Raku firings create the beautiful hues.
She will be at our Northern Potters Association festival in Yarm!

When you have an old bag of highly grogged pizza oven clay…… what does a potter make 🤷🏼‍♀️🤪Great to be back in the potte...
06/01/2026

When you have an old bag of highly grogged pizza oven clay…… what does a potter make 🤷🏼‍♀️🤪
Great to be back in the pottery and my hand on the precious mud, even if it’s skin ripping stuff.
All finished off with magnesium oxide. Think these will be raw fired, if they ever dry, soooooo cold today.





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