One of Winifred's former students at The Girvan Pottery is Tom Hopkins-Gibson who was featured in a BBC2 programme, ‘The Next Big Thing', presented by former Dragon's Den entrepreneur Theo Paphitis.
The programme followed Tom as he succeeded in securing a commission from London department store Liberty.
He recently moved back to his home town of Auchinleck in Ayrshire where he is refurbishing an empty furniture showroom to turn it into a workshop and gallery.
Tom is one of 25 artists selected by Craft Scotland to showcase their work at Philadelphia Museum of Art in America.
