Monkeytown Pottery
My first experiences with art go back to when I was a small child and my mother was studying art, while she would work in her sketch book, I would work in mine. My love of art intensified in high school. Because it was just so much fun and as my skills developed I found that the moment of creating art felt almost like magic.
I continued my art studies at James Madison and discovered Ceramics. I immediately loved everything about the medium. I kept drawing too and my other favorite medium was pastels. Both ceramics and pastels make art rather quickly and that magical feeling of creation was always there. At this time I was lucky to get an apprenticeship with potter Scott Supraner of Hawksbill Pottery and continued to apprentice him after I graduated from James Madison. Ceramics stayed in my life for the next ten years but at that time I left drawing behind.
In 2001 I bought family property (a general store that was my Grandmother’s and my Great Grandfather’s before) in a little village officially called Bloomfield but unofficially called Monkeytown. Monkeytown Pottery was born and I have been making functional and sculptural ceramic forms there ever since. My love of drawing came back to me during this time and drawing and carving on pots became my new passion defining my style in a way that completes my pots in a new and exciting way.
Recently Monkeytown Pottery has added a gas fired reduction kiln to its back yard. So now I offer a cone 10 line of functional ware as well as oxidized ware.
Monkeytown Pottery offers all sorts of functional pots for the kitchen and home: mugs, dinnerware, baking ware, platters, large bowls colanders, batter bowls and crocks. Also Art Pots for the home and garden: vases, bird baths, masks, face pots, and intensely carved pots!
Visit Monkeytown Pottery online at www.monkeytownpottery.com and Facebook.