Michelle Erickson Pottery Inc.

"Working in historic Tidewater, Virginia, for more than thirty years, Erickson has intensively studied the technology and history behind the ceramics used by the American colonists in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her efforts have rewarded her with a toolkit of technical skills representing three hundred years of potting traditions and a loyal following of ceramic collectors familiar with Anglo-American decorative arts. She is a proficient chemist, working in a wide range of earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain bodies and glazes, and has successfully applied these skills to her diverse contemporary work." Excerpt from Michelle Erickson...

Thrown tin glazed white stoneware with handpainted metallic oxide slip decoration. Michelle Erickson’s contemporary versions of a 17th century Engl...

CREAMWARE SKULL 2012 V&A Residency as World Class Maker H 7” Press molded and slipcast creamware with metallic oxide agate and indigenous London clay. Description This skull incorporates Erickson’s experimental archeology in recreating an 18th century English agate teapot featured in Ceramics in America 2003 . The mirror and reverse image of the iconic V&A logo incorporates experimental formulations of metallic oxide clays she developed to create the specific agate palette, pattern and technique that is the subject of one of the three films Erickson produced while V&A artist in residence in the category of World Class Maker in 2012. How It Was Made? An Agate Teapot by Michelle Erickson