Wild Glaze Collection
Gathered from the diverse terrains of the Pacific Northwest — this collection is shaped of the deserts, coastal mountains, wetlands, and volcanic heights.
All clay and glaze materials were hand gathered and processed. No commerical products used to make this pottery.
This is a truly unique piece of the local landscape, hand sculpted from the ground up. All the clay and glaze materials were gathered in the Pacific Northwest.
Specifically this piece is made from a blend of two clays including clay from a wetlands in foothills west of Portland Oregon and fire clay from the plains of Spokane Washington, and glazed with just two ingredients - wood ash and granodiorite.
Unlike my typical earthenware, pit-fired porous and beeswax sealed pottery, this has been fired at cone 6 in an electric kiln.
This is a truly unique piece of the local landscape, hand sculpted from the ground up. All the clay and glaze materials were gathered in the Pacific Northwest.
Specifically this piece is made from clay gathered the Oregon Coast Range, and glazed with wood ash, granodiorite, and hematite.
Unlike my typical earthenware, pit-fired porous and beeswax sealed pottery, this has been fired at cone 6 in an electric kiln.
This is a truly unique piece of the local landscape, hand sculpted from the ground up. All the clay and glaze materials were gathered in the Pacific Northwest.
Specifically this piece is made from clay gathered the Oregon Coast Range, and glazed with wood ash and granodiorite.
Unlike my typical earthenware, pit-fired porous and beeswax sealed pottery, this has been fired at cone 6 in an electric kiln.
This is a truly unique piece of the local landscape, hand sculpted from the ground up. All the clay and glaze materials were gathered in the Pacific Northwest.
Specifically this piece is made from a blend of two clays including clay from iron stained ash tuffs just east of the Cascades in Oregon and fire clay from the plains of Spokane Washington, and glazed with wood ash, spokane clay and granodiorite.
Unlike my typical earthenware, pit-fired porous and beeswax sealed pottery, this has been fired at cone 6 in an electric kiln.
It was my inspiration with this winter collection to create mid-range glazeware without buying any ingredients from ceramics material manufacturers. I have devoted a lot of time over the last years to understanding the global industries that supply pottery companies and where these raw ingredients come from.
Making beautiful and functional forms from the landscape around me is an act of resistence and resilience.
The use of local clays to make pottery is a deeply human and ancient practice. This knowledge is still common place in many countries around the world, but in the United States the convience of commercial materials has made it so that many potters do not know how to harvest and prepare their own clay.
Foraging earth has put me in touch with the mineral stories of these landscapes and deep time. I feel more connected to the volcanism of the Cascades and the ancient miocene tropical forests the iron stain the desert plains. And hope you will too!
Above: Gathering granodiorite, a realtive of granite in the Sierra Nevada foothills, California.
Left: Iron rich bog clay deposited from the Missoula Floods to the west of Portland, Oregon.
This is a truly unique piece of the local landscape, hand sculpted from the ground up. All the clay and glaze materials were gathered in the Pacific Northwest.
Specifically this piece is made from clay gathered the Oregon Coast Range, and glazed with wood ash, granodiorite, and hematite.
Unlike my typical earthenware, pit-fired porous and beeswax sealed pottery, this has been fired at cone 6 in an electric kiln.
This is a truly unique piece of the local landscape, hand sculpted from the ground up. All the clay and glaze materials were gathered in the Pacific Northwest.
Specifically this piece is made from a blend of two clays including clay from a wetlands in foothills west of Portland Oregon and fire clay from the plains of Spokane Washington, and glazed with just two ingredients - wood ash and granodiorite.
Unlike my typical earthenware, pit-fired porous and beeswax sealed pottery, this has been fired at cone 6 in an electric kiln.
This is a truly unique piece of the local landscape, hand sculpted from the ground up. All the clay and glaze materials were gathered in the Pacific Northwest.
Specifically this piece is made from clay gathered the Oregon Coast Range, and glazed with wood ash, granodiorite, and hematite.
Unlike my typical earthenware, pit-fired porous and beeswax sealed pottery, this has been fired at cone 6 in an electric kiln.
This is a truly unique piece of the local landscape, hand sculpted from the ground up. All the clay and glaze materials were gathered in the Pacific Northwest.
Specifically this piece is made from clay gathered the Oregon Coast Range, and glazed with wood ash, granodiorite, and hematite.
Unlike my typical earthenware, pit-fired porous and beeswax sealed pottery, this has been fired at cone 6 in an electric kiln.
This is a truly unique piece of the local landscape, hand sculpted from the ground up. All the clay and glaze materials were gathered in the Pacific Northwest.
Specifically this piece is made from a blend of two clays including clay from a wetlands in foothills west of Portland Oregon and fire clay from the plains of Spokane Washington, and glazed with wood ash, hemitite and granodiorite.
Unlike my typical earthenware, pit-fired porous and beeswax sealed pottery, this has been fired at cone 6 in an electric kiln.
This is a truly unique piece of the local landscape, hand sculpted from the ground up. All the clay and glaze materials were gathered in the Pacific Northwest.
Specifically this piece is made from clay gathered the Oregon Coast Range, and glazed with wood ash, granodiorite, and hematite.
Unlike my typical earthenware, pit-fired porous and beeswax sealed pottery, this has been fired at cone 6 in an electric kiln.
This is a truly unique piece of the local landscape, hand sculpted from the ground up. All the clay and glaze materials were gathered in the Pacific Northwest.
Specifically this piece is made from a blend of two clays including clay from a wetlands in foothills west of Portland Oregon and fire clay from the plains of Spokane Washington, and glazed with wood ash, granodiorite, and hematite.
Unlike my typical earthenware, pit-fired porous and beeswax sealed pottery, this has been fired at cone 6 in an electric kiln.
This is a truly unique piece of the local landscape, hand sculpted from the ground up. All the clay and glaze materials were gathered in the Pacific Northwest.
Specifically this piece is made from clay gathered in the Oregon Coast Range, and glazed with just two ingredients - wood ash and granodiorite.
Unlike my typical earthenware, pit-fired porous and beeswax sealed pottery, this has been fired at cone 6 in an electric kiln.
