The artists create one-of-a-kind wheel thrown, hand-built and sculptural works in stoneware, earthenware and porcelain in a diverse range of styles, techniques and glazes from kitchen items and table ware, to classic and funky décor, to museum-quality pieces.
Many of Denman Island’s potters established themselves on the island in the early 1970s, as a peaceful way to make a living on this rural island paradise.
Please note: Some studios are open only for the tour. Check with the artist directly to see if they are open at other times.
Ceramic forms combined with plant fibers using weaving and basketry techniques.
Jeanie Rogers
Gilded Petunia Pottery
Decorative and functional earthenware, lustre ware and wood-fired pots, vases, flower blocks, buttons.
Sandra’s most recent work has been fired in the newly completed soda kiln. Soda firing is a high temperature atmospheric firing in which the flame vaporizes the soda ash which then is attracted to and combines with the silica and alumina in the clay body resulting in a uniquely glazed surface on the pot.
Gordon Hutchens
Gordon Hutchens Pottery
From museum-quality pieces to functional pots, vases, platters and mugs. Gordon is the recipient of a Creative Achievement Award of Distinction, Carter Wosk Award in Applied Art + Design.
Thalita creates one of a kind organic sculptures and natural shaped dish-ware at her studio & shop on Denman Island. The emphasis being to remember our innate connection to the Earth and our humanness.
Shirley Phillips
Lilac Sun Pottery
Unique textured pottery as small as chopstick rests to as large as wall torsos. Wood, smoke and electric fired creations.
Tom Dennis
Tom Dennis Pottery
Functional and decorative plates, bowls, mugs, platters and vases.
Large mugs, travel mugs, specialty bowls, plant, honey and garlic pots, and personality-rich sculptures.