"vitrifiedstudio is a small home based
ceramics studio located in Portland Oregon founded in 2011. All of the
work is all limited production, high quality studio ceramics handmade
and designed by me, Shelley Martin. These handmade studio ceramics are
an alternative to the high volume mass produced repetitive work you find
in other studios, workshops, and factories. I have no assistants,
beyond photography guidance by my boyfriend, Mitch Snyder.
Each piece is unique, considered, and made only using my hands, the
pottery wheel, a few simple tools, local clay, food safe glazes and
natural cork stoppers.
All of the ceramics are handmade in my
backyard studio. The clay used is colored stoneware and porcelain from
the Pacific Northwest. The glazes are food safe and lead free. All of
the work is glaze fired in my electric kiln to cone 4-6 depending on the clay's chemistry. I
really love that I am merely continuing a tradition that has been going
on for thousands of years, making simple pots formed with my hands and
clay, on the potter's wheel. "
You can find out more about Shelley and vitrified studio on her site.
And to see her work in person come by our Holiday Pop-Up Shop on Dec 1 and 2.