For the month of May, Maine Potters Market celebrates creatures great and small with a special show of pots made by Jacqueline Hickey of Happy Valley Potworks and Barb Loken of Loken Pottery. 

 

Both Jackie and Barb are inspired to use animal motifs in their pottery designs. Jackie often decorates platters and bowls with the graceful shapes and lines of birds and fish. Other pots such as bowls, creamers, and sugar bowls take on the attitude of fish and birds.  Both are reminders of the beautiful creatures that populate our Maine landscape, woods and water.

 

Barb  enjoys puns and a good clay joke. She focuses on moose, pigs and occasional ducks. The collection now includes ‘Pig-Out Snack dishes’,’ Swine Steins’, ‘Swine glasses’, and the new pig liquid soap dispenser called ’Hog Wash’. The moose division has a moose snack dish and  members of the ‘Maine Moosician Bell Choir’. She is very serious about silly.

 

ABOUT JACQUELINE HICKEY -- Jacqueline established Happy Valley Potworks in 1983 with the completion of a barn and studio in North Waterboro. She has been making functional pottery for over 30 years. Her forms are either hand built or wheel thrown and often whimsical, created with a smile. The surfaces of her pieces are highly textured, and brightly colored glazes are applied to accentuate the texture.

 

ABOUT BARB LOKEN  --  One half of Loken Pottery, Barb enjoys the rhythm and pleasure of working at home, which includes an 1825 cape and eight acres shared with an orange Chow, a black mutt, and occasional deer, woodchucks, and wild turkeys. It's a rural setting with ample space for a studio and garden, with easy access to hiking, canoeing, camping, art and music. Also a painter, Barb crafts clay pieces with a whimsical twist. Potters since 1970, Barb and husband Neal still enjoy the challenge of experimenting, designing and decorating new forms.

 

ABOUT MAINE POTTERS MARKET – Founded in 1978 by a group of potters who envisioned a cooperative market where they could educate customers and sell their wares to the public, Maine Potters Market currently consists of fourteen potters from twelve Maine studios. The rich variety of handmade work available for sale keeps Maine Potters Market customers returning. May Hours: 

10-6 Sunday - Wednesday; 10-9 Thursday, Friday and Saturday.