Blue Ridge Pottery - Our Artists

Alun     |    Norma    |    Melinda    |    Heather    |    Stephen    |    Apprentices    |    Studio Pets

Blue Ridge Pottery is a family based business. Started almost twenty years ago by Alun Ward, the Pottery now has four full time artist/potters. Alun has been joined in the business by wife, Norma Caron-Ward, daughters Melinda Buchanan-Ward & Heather Tusing and son-in-law Stephen Tusing. Working together we make the Pottery and sculpture and do the many other tasks required to keep a small business operating.

There have been potters for a really long time. Some ancestor of each of us played with a lump of clay. Discarded into a fire pit it soon became a pot. The fire forever changed it. The lump now energized became a part of the history of man. Never mind the art, potters just like to play in the mud. They like to play with fire. They are the alchemists amongst us, mixing fire and earth and water, minerals and oxides. They are old and gnarled. They are Merlin. They are young and beautiful. Their fingers can make magic.