Our Story

 

The Artist

Amy Noel is wife, mom, gardener, beach-bum, artistic creator, and CEO all in one. She has designed, made, and sold pottery while having 2 daughters, now 7 and 8 years old.

Her love of pottery all started at NSCAD University, in Halifax, NS, and blossomed when she lived in Japan for 3 years. There, she was a member of a local pottery studio in Toyama-ken, and she has been hooked on pottery ever since. Upon moving back to Nova Scotia in 2013 she started her own pottery business, Wabi Scotia Pottery, with the goal of combining aspects of Nova Scotian and Japanese pottery to create her own style.

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The Pottery

Wabi Scotia Pottery is fully functional pottery. It is food safe, dishwasher safe, and microwave safe. It’s art for your every day life!

Amy uses stoneware clay which is then fired to “cone 6” temperature in her electric kiln. Most pieces are thrown on a wheel and then hand trimmed and altered slightly to create a more handmade feel. Unique swirls, twists, and bumps create pieces that are obviously not from a factory.

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The Inspiration

Wabi Sabi - Perfectly imperfect: there is beauty in irregularities and asymmetry. There is value in imperfection, the rustic, and time weathered.

Nature - A walk through the woods, a sunset through the mist along the coast, or playing in tide pools at the beach. These brief moments of peace in a crazy life need to be memorialized.

Childhood - Watching her 2 girls grow and play, Amy is inspired by their innocent joy and appreciation of all the little things. Blowing bubbles, the love of rainbows, and their adventures outside all become reflected in Amy’s work.

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The Studio

All work is hand crafted in Amy’s home studio in Middle Sackville, NS, Canada. She has 4 studio “helpers”, her two daughters, one happy dog, and a naughty studio cat.

All raw materials are ordered from Canadian companies in Ontario. Amy then creates all the studio glazes from scratch and all the forms and designs are created by her as well. From wet clay to the finished, glazed pottery, it all happens right in the studio.