Ghost Ship Gallery

Lake Superior Pottery is unique functional tableware that embodies a flavor of Lake Superior and the Great Lakes region. With porcelain as my base, I mix in local sand, rock, and clay and coat it with handmade traditional ash-glazes from the surrounding hardwoods. You will see little black spots from the sand, reds of local clay, greens from melted tree ash and black-ware from added rock. Simple ingredients. A piece of the area.

Lake Superior pottery is a little piece of the big lake that you can hold and use. This story and sense-of-place adds enjoyment and connection as you bring the outside inside your home, into your kitchen and onto your table.It’s the place you love, in the palm of your hands. 

My technique and methods are influenced by my apprenticeship at the St. John’s Pottery in Minnesota (2004-06) under Richard Bresnahan, studies in Karatsu, Japan (2006-10) and Ulsan, Korea (2010). During these travels, I was able to visit historic and culturally treasured areas famous for their pottery. Each region is aesthetically distinct from each other as geology changes; creating unique pottery specific to that area. With the pottery I purchased there, I feltI was bringing home a piece of that place. It was this idea I loved and wanted to share in my own pottery: the idea of loving a place and being able to take it home with you. 

I use a Japanese-style wooden kick wheel and process local materials in my studio just south of Bayfield in Washburn, WI.

*Care: All are dishwasher safe. Pottery with spots and designs are microwave safe. For all black pottery, microwave is not advised.