About Peggy Quinn

I opened my backyard studio in the Spring of 2020 just as covid kept most people home. I used this time to outfit my studio and work out new cone six glazes and decorating techniques. My glazes, slips and under and over glazes are all mixed by hand with the potter's pantry of raw materials. My work is primarily wheel thrown, often with hand modeled and press molded additions and handles that add an imaginative and very distinctive style. Many of my pieces feature motifs from the natural world in the form of hand painted and sculptural additions or carvings. My pottery is also heavily influenced by simple elegant pottery forms from China. Likewise, my glazes tend to be elegant and subtle. In my finishing techniques, I strive for a quiet elegance that tends to enhance my wheel thrown and hand built forms. My decorative functional work is well crafted, food, microwave, oven and dishwasher safe. I hope the use of my work brings my patrons as much pleasure as it does for me to create. My clay studio is located in rural East Springfield Pennsylvania in my lovely backyard pole barn.