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Oliver, Amy

Monkeytown Pottery

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Ceramic artist, Amy Oliver, uses colored slip and bare clay to carve and sculpt images on functional pots. Trees, birds, other animals and nature are often represented on her pots. Amy is heavily influenced by her art history studies especially the pots of Mesopotamia and the vibrant trees and landscapes by Vincent van Gogh.

Masks and faces have always been an interest to Amy as well. One of the things she values most as a potter though is true function of the pot. How can it work best? How does it feel in your hand? Is it balanced? She strives to make functional art, for everyday use, that nurtures the spirit.

Her studio is in a lovely country village called Bloomfield in old general store that once belonged to a great grandfather. History, nature, and art come together here.

www.MonkeytownPottery.com

Supraner, Scott & Vicki

Hawksbill Pottery

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Hawksbill Pottery produces a unique collection of handcrafted stoneware. Some pieces are thrown on a potter’s wheel while others are hand built with slabs and extruded pieces. Each piece is embossed with original designs and hand painted with lead free studio mixed glazes. Our glazing technique is similar to a batik process. A variety of masking materials are used between layers of glaze to create colorful designs and patterns. All pieces are ovenproof, dishwasher and microwave safe. Unlike earthenware, stoneware has been fired to a very high temperature, vitrifying the clay to create a strong and durable finished product. Each piece is painted free hand with a brush, giving spontaneous life to each piece. We believe this direct process infuses the object with human energy. If cared for properly, your piece should last a lifetime and be enjoyed by generations to come.

www.hawksbillpottery.com

Miller, Shelley

Focal Point

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I have a creative background earning a BFA in graphic design, working as a graphic artist and photographer before beginning my work with polymer clay. I love the creativity that this medium allows and the surprise each new piece brings. I love color and whimsical designs and strive to bring that out in my work.

I create my designs using various techniques to combine the different colors of clay into the patterns and designs that you see on my work. Nothing is painted on. Sometimes only the clay is used to design my piece and sometimes it is created over an existing object made of glass or ceramic.

I hope you enjoy my work and that it can add an element of whimsical delight to your life and your home.

focalpoint.shop

Kirk, Roger

Kirk Ceramics

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The founder of Kirk Ceramics, Roger Kirk, makes functional and decorative ceramics in his studio in Washington, D.C. He also teaches high school and adult ceramics classes in Montgomery County, MD.

Roger has been making ceramics since 2009, when he took his first ceramics class at UCLA. Many failed and successful pots later, he sells his work at markets and through his website.

Roger’s style is inspired by traditional English and Japanese pottery, but with a contemporary twist. He hopes the handmade feel, functionality, and professional finish of his ceramics will help to make people’s homes happier places to live.

kirkceramics.com

Linthicum, Lori

Heart’s Desire Pottery

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As a gardener comfortable in the dirt, Linthicum finds satisfaction using that same type of medium, clay, to try and replicate Nature’s art.

Porcelain allows her to create a three dimensional, tactile effect and try to bring native habitat to life for others to enjoy year round in their homes and gardens.

Through handbuilding, slabwork and coiling, the clay is manipulated into buds breaking from the surface just as real blossoms spring from the soil. Mason stains and underglazes give a wide palette to paint the details, then a clear glaze is added and fire to cone 6. Some pieces are further enhanced with lusters.

Some regular visitors may recognize Lori’s work from the Old Mill Shop, where she has sold for many years.

HeartsDesirePottery.net

Kesler, Jonathan

Earthly Arts

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My intention is the integration of art, nature, and the ‘everyday’ life of the patron. This I attempt to accomplish via the creation of forms that may, if desired, have a broad practical functionality which so-by leads to inclusiveness with the life flow of the patron. In turn the subjective art travels with the action creating a bridge for the suggestive surface imagery to promote its theme which is, specifically, nature. Each aspect has a rebounding circular path that in its totality proffers resonance. The art feeds on itself which ‘feeds’ the patron on multiple levels. Such is my intention.

EarthlyArtsPottery.com

Kennedy, Selinda

Kennedy Redware Pottery

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I am a historic redware potter since 1986. I employ historic folk art on slab technique redware pottery. I use mason stain and slip and underglazes.

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Savely, Clay

Tree of Life Potters

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This unique form of ceramics is created from hand-built stoneware clay slabs designed with tedious impressions of Appalachian plants set delicately into patterns and mandalas that are highlighted by iron-oxides and various glazes. Honoring the vast botanical realms of the Appalachian bio-region, each platter, plate, vase, mug, bowl, and jewelry piece is handcrafted and as unique as the plants that were impressed into them. This technique has been passed down from a university level trained father to son, and is inspired by visionary art, indigenous mysticism and the powerful magic found in the lush forests of the Blue Ridge mountains.

The true vision of my art is to reconnect humanity to love and the eloquent healing powers of nature through connection, inspiration, and deeper understanding, thus creating a mutual respect and intention to heal the wounds of our heavily impacted planet.

TreeofLifePotters.com