Imagine Peace Pottery

Functional pottery studio, located in the Potter County, PA. This business has been my driving force through many tough times and what I have strived to achieve. This is my first step in this journey with clay and following my dreams. While I am a mostly self-taught pottery, my formal ceramic education came from a close mentor and personal friend when I was in school and my current mentor a produc

tion potter of 35 years. Beyond my mentors' teachings I continue to follow a course of self-study and strive to learn new processes and techniques. My studio began in the basement of a rented house, where I could only create pieces but couldn't finish them because I wasn't permitted to wire in my kiln. When I changed jobs, I also changed homes, and worked in a fully renovated 100 year old print studio. This studio needed a lot of work but after a thorough cleaning, painting, rewiring, insulating, and decorating it became a functioning studio and place of inspiration and peace for me. In 2016 we purchased our farmstead, plan on opening a studio on site, where the public can come and take classes or just wander the studio and farm. Until then we have finished a loft space above the garage which is my current studio. Some people say things, "Just make sense". You hear this all the time, I just looked at an engine and it made sense, I just picked up a pen and could write, it just felt right when I was flying - For me it just made sense, the first time I sat down behind a potter's wheel. It felt so natural and right and in centering that clay, I feel like I have centered my life a little more, found a purpose and a sense of being. I tried to find more prosperous ways to live in the past but never found something that felt as right as when I was working with clay. This is only the beginning of this story, there will be many more chapters as the pages are turned. ~IMAGINE PEACE~ WJM