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The Potters Cast

The Great Pottery Throwdown Winner 2025 | James Stanley Watson | Episode 1203

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Careers, Visual Arts, Business, Arts

4.9590 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

James Stanley Watson is a Belfast-based ceramic artist known for his playful, characterful creations and his appearance on The Great Pottery Throw Down. A former cake maker turned full-time potter, James finds joy in storytelling through clay, exploring themes of place, memory, and transformation.

https://ThePottersCast.com/1203

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0:00.0

This is the Potter's Cast.

0:01.9

A podcast home for Potters Everywhere.

0:05.4

It's a community of Potters dedicated to grow their business.

0:08.8

We're picking up where the art degree ends.

0:11.1

I'm your host, Paul Blaze.

0:14.3

Hello and welcome to episode number 1,203 of The Potterscast.

0:20.4

Today we've got an amazing dude coming on this show. His name is

0:24.7

James Watson. Well, if you go to his Instagram feed, it's James Stanley Watson, and he's a bit

0:32.4

of a rock star. The dude was on the great pottery throwdown, and he was the winner for 2025.

0:41.7

Yeah, super stoked to be able to spend time with him and be able to share his story because it's pretty amazing.

0:48.3

And his work is really awesome.

0:51.1

Like, when you go to the show notes page today, you'll look at it and

0:54.5

you'll go, yeah, no wonder he won. Yeah, because he makes sweet work. So I've got that all over

0:59.8

for you on the show notes page. So you can be able to check that out. Also, I want to thank,

1:06.5

thank those of you that have reached out to me about my my Facebook account being hacked yeah

1:14.1

that's kind of a bummer anyhow thank you so much for letting me know about that that you're kind

1:22.1

trying to spread the word and um yeah so if you don't know my Facebook page was hacked and the guy is on there trying to sell

1:30.4

things that obviously are not available so I feel bad for him because obviously he's he wasn't

1:38.7

raised with very good morals he doesn't have a very good ethic and ethical system for himself.

1:45.4

I don't know.

1:46.2

I don't know.

1:47.0

It sure is frustrating from those of the side out here who are just trying to make a life for ourselves.

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