Julie Brooke, the Scottish Potter", has been making a living out of clay for nearly three decades, and she has been a specialist in the demanding discipline of crystalline glazed porcelain for more than 10 years. While Julie has been known to hyperventilate while unloading crystal pots from her electric kiln, she derives equal parts pleasure from spying blood red reduction glazes as she cracks the door on her propane kiln.

   In 1992, she organized and implemented Part I of the Chinese Ceramic Exchange, during which 20 American and Canadian potters traveled to the Central Academy of Arts and Design in Beijing, China to demonstrate Western ceramic techniques.

   In 1993, Brooke organized and implemented Part II pf the Chinese Ceramic Exchange, during which two esteemed professors from the Central Academy of Arts and Design came to San Diego to lecture and experience first hand contemporary ceramics in the Western United States. In 1989, Brooke had a solo show of crystalline-glazed porcelain at the MOA gallery in the Melrose district of Los Angeles.