Waistel Cooper, potter, a Scot born in Ayr 19th April 1921 married Joan D'Arcy Jeancon in 1957. After Joan's death he married Gillian Tedder and moved to Penzance Cornwall and set up his pottery at Porlock in Somerset in 1952. He was a potter of some distinction, and his speciality was textured surfaces; he was known, though, to use wood ash glazes from time to time. In 1983 he moved to Penzance, Cornwall, where he operated from Barbican Pottery. His mark was the brushed forename 'Waistel' in black. He died on 15th January 2003.