Fine Mess Pottery

We are endlessly resourceful! When I arrived at Hallowell Clay Works yesterday to teach my Beginning Throwers, I found that Malley had devi...

The great Barry Manilow captured the melancholy of late October, as we spin into the dark half of the year. My wallow in that bittersweet f...

Hey all - long time no post! I'd say sorry but honestly I'm probably the only one who notices. 😊 Hoping you are having a fabulous...

Just wanted to offer a heads' up about what looks like an amazing workshop featuring Maine's own Tim Christensen in Palermo, Sicily ...

The weeks leading up to an art fair usually involve some late nights in the studio. Last night was one, as I try to squeeze out one more ...

They will be prettier once they are all lying down, of course, but it's hard to get a photo of them, then! The pots, too, are never so...

Me, I clean. There are some logical reasons for that - the studio is never more empty than when all the ware is in the kiln - and some squis...

I never tire of glowy-kiln images! I am always the one with the tongs, so not in  position to appreciate the visual spectacle while it is...

Just checking in with my pottery peeps! It's been a month or so since I posted, and in that time I have been busily making. Wholesale is...

Though I have already successfully fired a bisque under the newly repaired arch, it hardly counts as a test. I could bisque in a trash can, ...

The flowers of mid-June make the best bouquets! The enormous raspberry heads of peony, the delicate deep purple shapes of Siberian Iris, t...

Testing a new flashing slip recipe - I kind of just made it up, with crowdsourced suggestions. Let's do it. Results to follow next week....