Gretchen Quinn Pottery, Raleigh NC

Gretchen thoughtfully combines clean, modern shapes with her signature mix & match hand carved patterns to create a truly distinctive and timeless collection. Her pottery is made from a rich brown mid-range stoneware and glazed in glossy white. Gold luster and oxide washes are often used as well.

I make functional ceramics with a clean, modern feel and my work is a reflection of what I want to have and use in my own home.

I’m definitely under the spell of well-made crafts and much of what I make spins out from my love of Danish Modern and Shaker designs where simplicity, utility, and honesty are the guiding principles in their work.

My pieces are handmade out of a beautiful, dark brown stoneware clay and finished with a glossy white glaze. I decorated each piece with a variety of mix and match, hand-carved patterns that emerge after the glaze firing. The pattern details that I add to my pottery are carved freehand. I never use pre-made patterns, templates or textures. To me, it’s the freehand carving that makes my pots feel fresh and modern and what tells the user that every piece is handmade.

All of my pottery is made and fired in my downtown Raleigh studio and durably designed for daily use.

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