News — Pottery

Wild Rose Pottery was established by Maureen & Barry Payne in 1975.  They built their pottery studio on their country property, 30 miles NE of Winnipeg, in 1978. Maureen is the original potter having been trained in England before they immigrated to Canada in 1967. She graduated with an Advanced Ceramic Diploma from the Cambridge Institute & Balls Park College Hertfordshire. She has been practicing her art continuously since that time. Making functional stoneware pottery which Maureen has sold at numerous retail art/craft shows across Canada. Although Barry’s career was in the aerospace industry with a Physics degree from University of...