Digby Hoets

Digby Hoets has been teaching pottery and making his own pots since 1973. 

Born in Johannesburg in 1949, Digby matriculated from King Edward VII, spent a year (compulsory call-up) in the South African Navy. He studied for a science degree at the Universities of Natal and Witwatersrand and taught himself to make pots in his mother, Dilys Hoets' studio during his vacations.

When the opportunity arose to buy John and Val Edwards' teaching studio in 1973, he gave up university, married Penny who he'd met at Natal University and became a full-time potter and pottery teacher.