Some of our favorite artists in clay include:

Earthfire Branch - Karen Branch and Steve Maher are fusing their talents, energy, and studios resulting in a collaboration of increased potential. Since 1898 they have created both individually and together in clay.  Each established studios and build their kilns in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas.  After years of adamant individuality they concluded it was more fun to work together. The Neriage process they use begins with a labor-intensive task of mixing a myriad of colors using natural oxides.  They then slice and stack layers of the colored porcelain to build up a specific design that runs completely through the block.  A cross-sectional slice taken from this completed block is then used to form a piece of dinnerware. After carefully cleaning each piece when bone-dry, they then airbrush a mist of wood ash glaze onto the pots before loading the kiln with greenware to be fired once which takes around 24 hours.  At 2100 degrees they add Oak strips from a local sawmill and continue to stoke for 6-10 hours or until the temperature reaches 2380 degrees or cone 10.  It takes another 2 days for the kiln to cool. Whew!....and finally....a peek at their colored-porcelain dinnerware!

Natalie Blake Studios -  is located in Brattleboro, Vermont.  Rich colors, sculptural lids, and a fluid carving style are all recognizable features of Natalie Blake's pottery.  Her work is at once modern and classical, aqueous and lushly verdant--the visible result of years spent developing her artistic voice through international travel, apprenticeships, and formal training.

Keaton Wynn - is a professor in the Fine Art Department at Georgia Southwestern State University.  He lives in Plaines, Georgia but there is nothing plain about Keaton's pottery.  Let's face it, have you ever seen a lidded face jar like the one pictured to the right?  His other pottery pieces are as remarkable as well.

Sybil Shane Studio - offers high-fired, handcrafted clay tiles with images by Sybil Shane and Miyu Tamamura.  They are 6" x 6" and felt backed, complete with a wall hanger.  They  are suitable for wall hanging, a table trivet or even an installation.

Laurie Pollpeter Eskenazi - has worked in clay almost exclusively for more than 25 years.  Laurie creates the forms by using a combination of wheel throwing and hand building techniques.  Texture is applied to the surface by using found objects and handmade stamps.  Each piece is painted with multiple glazes and fired several times.  Characterized by intricate, whimsical designs in lush, vibrant colors, Laurie's work is about pattern, texture and a bit of nostalgia.

Ira Burhans - is currently exploring new forms and glazes in stoneware pottery.  Each piece can be used in the oven or microwave and washed in a dishwasher.  It is important to Ira that his pottery becomes a part of everyday life and his focus is to create pots that have aesthetic curves and textures.

Diana Crain - creates vases that are designed to hang on the wall and hold water for fresh flowers.  They are made of low fire clay and handpainted with colorful underglazes.  Many of the vases can also stand on a shelf, window sill, or mantle.  The wine bottles are made as tiles with a tube on the back for water and must hang on the wall.

Marc Matsui – stimulates visual excitement incorporating various colors and designs on his porcelain bowls and plates with contrasting rims

Stephen Fabrico – creates functional pottery (stoneware and porcelain) that is fired to 2350 degrees Fahrenheit.  His clay bodies are non-absorbent and safe to use in a dishwasher or microwave.  All his glazes are lead-free and non-toxic.  Teapots should be preheated with hot tap water before boiling water is poured in.

Bill Campbell, 2 Collections The most exceptional of his three collections is his one of a kind, hand-built, numbered collection in spectacular colors.           *His Flambeaux art pottery collection features striking crystalline glazes in warm and cool colors. Bill's hope is that using his pottery will "cause a little celebration in everyday living." Stop in soon to learn more about Bill Campbell. *Dishwasher and microwave safe.

From Bill Campbell's One of a Kind, Hand-Built, Numbered Collection:

From Bill Campbell's Flambeaux Art Pottery Collection:

Clay Cellar’s Joyce Furney – creates raku fired decorative plates, vases, and boxes which are either slip cast, wheel-thrown or hand built yielding spectacularly brilliant results.

John Davis – adapts the ancient Japanese raku firing process to his series of lovely vases, candleholders, ornaments, rattles and decorative boxes.  The process which involves intense heat and lack of oxygen creates the unpredictable color pattern.

Sue and Jim Whalen of Paradox Pottery - creates wheel thrown pots with wood-fired patterns in elegant earth-tone palettes.

Carolyn Koons –  creates hand-painted porcelain, which is decorative  and functional, with unusual forms in painterly patterns (available in both matte and shiny glazes)

Doublecreek Pottery – Barbara & Betty Barwick create bold and fanciful designs in functional bowls, plates, vases, trays, teapots, & trinket boxes

Rick Stafford – elegantly depicts inlaid dragonflies, fish, leaves and now vegetables in his signature matte black glazes.

Christine Colombarini of Primitive Fired Clayworks – creates clay vessels and sculptural forms that originate through a handbuilt, slip case, or wheel-thrown process - sometimes using a combination of two or all three techniques.  The primitive pit-fired (using straw and sawdust) method Christine has developed gives her work the distinctive grass patterns, fire clouds, and rich sepia tones.  She then hand-colors each work with its own unique design metallic paints, oil sticks, and acrylics. Upon completion, she applies a satin acrylic spray to protect the finish.

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