AnnCeramication

I came to clay after trying many ways of making things, and it’s the one that stayed.

I work in a home studio in Los Angeles, and I build everything by hand. I don’t use a wheel. It’s slower. You can feel the difference in the finished piece, and I like that you can.

If a piece of mine is in your home, it’s the only one like it anywhere. Thank you for that.

Everything is ceramic, built without a wheel and without molds, and I work on my own. There are 40 pieces in the shop right now, and they all sell on Etsy.

Anna standing against a large pale wall in her Los Angeles studio, photographed in black and white

How a piece is built

Hover to see it in colour.

The disc under the clay is a banding wheel. It’s a turntable I push round with my hand so I can get to the other side of a pot. It doesn’t shape anything. A potter’s wheel does that, and I don’t own one.

Pinching a cup from a ball of clay
Shaping the rim by hand
Pieces drying on the studio shelf

Some forms come back. The cups people love, the sets. They come out different every time anyway.

Brushing on the glaze
Wrapping a piece before it ships

The studio

One room in Los Angeles. I built every piece on this site in it. There is no shop to visit, so everything comes to you in the post.

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