Mousehole Pottery was estabished by Bill and Biddy Picard in 1953.

Bill worked as a decorator for a while with Jess Val Baker. He trained with Bernard Leach and later taught ceramics at the Penzance School of Art for a number of years.

Born in Derbyshire in 1922, Biddy Picard studied at Chesterfield Art School and the Slade, before moving to West Cornwall with Bill. Biddy is now a well established artist as is her son Peter Perry.

Biddy started the Animal Friends pottery in 1977 which is now run by John Parkes and Barbara Pilkington

Biddy lives near the village of Sheffield on the Penwith Moors above Newlyn.
 
(2003)