Ashley Beth Pottery

I use a combination of handbuilding and wheel throwing to produce my forms, alternating between white earthenware & a white speckled stoneware for my works. My imagery work is achieved through a combination of underglaze pencil drawings and watercolor-like painting. My imagery includes original, hand drawn images of storybook and woodland inspired motifs. Raccoons, skunks, bears, deer, and foxes are some of my favorites to draw, set in whimsical floral wreaths, or woodland settings. My vintage feminine work focuses on the colors and textures seen in vintage textiles, using buttons, lace and stamps to create textures and designs on works.
Finally, I focus on a line of work considered more “rustic modern”, where I focus mostly on simpler forms, glaze layering, and color development.
Most of my imagery and vintage feminine work is fired inside an electric kiln to cone 04 or 6, depending on the clay body, while my more rustic color study work alternates between electric & gas firing.