Blue Hill Peninsula Potters
by Carole Ann Fer
For generations the Blue Hill Peninsula has been home to an active fishing community, as well as a much beloved vacation destination. Also located here, is the world renowned Haystack Mountain School of Crafts which draws in many artists and craftspeople, who often find themselves calling this alluring peninsula home. The Blue Hill Peninsula Potters are a part of this magnetic draw. Revived in 2001, from a previous incarnation, this guild of established and emerging studio potters continue the traditions of kiln openings, studio tours and visits by appointments with this, their 2023 Annual Potters Tour. This year’s talented and varied group of ceramic artists includes 18 members, with studios in Blue Hill, Brooklin, Brooksville, Deer Isle, Penobscot, and Surry, showing everything from dinnerware to tiles, table lamps to sculptural pieces. You will find functional and decorative works in porcelain, stoneware, as well as salt and wood-fired pieces.
Members include: Vivian Pyle (VKP Studio), and Ellen Sedgwick (Ellen Sedgwick Pottery), Surry; Elise Teixido & Codey Stange (E & C Ceramics), East Blue Hill; Leslie Day (LD Studio), and Mark Bell (Mark Bell Pottery), Blue Hill; Geoff Miller (Lowell Hill Pottery), Penobscot; Melody Lewis-Kane (Clay Forms Pottery), Sedgwick; David McBeth (Walker Pond Pottery), Brooksville; Carole Ann Fer (dowstudio), Melissa Greene (Greene-Ziner Gallery), and Marcia Kola (Mountainville Studios), Deer Isle; Lynn Curran (Random Pottery Studio), Odette Heideman (OH Pottery), and Co-Op members, Cathy Rees, Elsie Sealander, and Ann Cutting (Brooklin Pottery Co-Op), Brooklin.
There will be two tours for your viewing and shopping pleasure: Saturday and Sunday, August 5th and 6th and again Saturday and Sunday, October 7th and 8th with some studios open on Monday, October 9th.
You will find information and a map of locations on their website. Whether you are around on the tour dates, or somewhere in between, visiting these talented ceramic artists and their studios is sure to be a highlight of your visit to the area.
Please go to Blue Hill Peninsula Potters website for more information, and the map.
Works by member potters (clockwise from top): Brooklin Co-op member Elise Sealander; Lynn Curran, Random Pottery; Missy Greene, Greene-Ziner Gallery; Vivian Pyle, VKP Studio; Carole Ann Fer, dowstudio; and Odette Heideman, OH Pottery.