Lotte Glob
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Lotte Glob is a Danish ceramic artist living in the north of Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. She is the daughter of Peter Glob
Peter Glob
Peter Vilhelm Glob , also P.V. Glob, was a Danish archaeologist who worked as the Director General of Museums and Antiquities of the state of Denmark and was also the Director of the National Museum in Copenhagen...

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Life

In 1968 she established a workshop in Balnakiel Craft Village at Durness
Durness
Durness is a huge but remote parish in the northwestern Highlands of Scotland, encompassing all the land between the Moine to the East and the Gualin to the West...

 in Sutherland
Sutherland
Sutherland is a registration county, lieutenancy area and historic administrative county of Scotland. It is now within the Highland local government area. In Gaelic the area is referred to according to its traditional areas: Dùthaich 'IcAoidh , Asainte , and Cataibh...

, but recently moved to Loch Eriboll
Loch Eriboll
Loch Eriboll is a long sea loch on the north coast of Scotland, which has been used for centuries as a deep water anchorage as it is safe from the often stormy seas of Cape Wrath and the Pentland Firth...

 9 miles east of Durness. Here she has built a unique timber house that won the RIAS Award for Architecture.

She often hikes in the mountains, gathering materials and inspiration for her sculptures and returning her work to nature by placing the sculptures at various locations in the mountains.

Søren Ryge Petersen
Søren Ryge Petersen
Søren Ryge Petersen is a Danish tv host, journalist and writer.-Biography:He was raised in Achtrup, Schleswig-Holstein....

made a documentary about her life in the mountains called DR-Derude i Skotland.

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