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.
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.
