Adam Scoggin

My love for art grew when I got my hands into clay. It ís so rewarding and so humbling.  I can create a beautiful piece, then lose it through the quality of the glaze or in the firing.

A potter for 30 years, my skill with form and materials came from studying for three summers with Marguerite Wildenhain at Pond Farm Pottery near Guerneville, California. There, I was trained by Marguerite, a former Bauhaus apprentice, in a Western European, traditional/classical approach to studio pottery.

I throw and handbuild stoneware and porcelain.   Each piece is hand-decorated to suit the form with themes from nature or abstraction.  In the decoration process I use slips, wax-resist, sgraffito, and texturing. Continually hand-crafting and testing my own glazes, I uses both reduction-firing and saggar-firing to achieve the final effect.  In addition to refinement of form, I focus on the beauty of the surface being enhanced by the interaction of clay, glaze and kiln atmosphere.

Viewers of my work frequently comment on the wide variety of forms and the broad spectrum of color, glaze and texture.  They enjoy the nuance and understated elegance as well as the whimsy, boldness and risk-taking.  Blue heron decanters, quail cruets and elegant bowls are among my signature pieces.

My wife, Kathee, assists me on a part-time basis. Recently she has created her own pieces such as free-form mirrors, decorative tiles and wall-hangings.

If you stay true to your inner vision and develop your uniqueness, those are the very things people will take delight in and be drawn to in your work.

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Blue Heron Pottery

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509.951.0986