All glazes used by Prancing Pony Pottery are lead-free and most functional Prancing Pony Pottery stoneware is dishwasher* and microwave safe, and when precautions are taken, suitable for oven baking. Please wash your pottery before using for the first time.
- Handmade stoneware pottery is sensitive to extreme temperature changes. When baking, place the pottery in the oven while the oven is still cool – heat the oven, the dish, and the food you are cooking at the same time.
- Avoid taking your pottery directly from the refrigerator and heating in the microwave or oven. Allow the pottery to warm to room temperature first.
- Do not place on an open flame, heating element or under the broiler.
- When arranging stoneware in the dishwasher, do not allow anything else to touch it as the vibration in the dishwasher is typically what causes chips/cracks.
Yarn Bowls Thank you for choosing a Prancing Pony Pottery yarn bowl for your fiber craft! To ensure the safety of your bowl, please handle it from the bottom or solid sides.
Fairy Doors Most fairy doors have been stained with an underglaze which accentuates the design, so that you can choose to customize your door by painting it, or just leave the door in its natural state. If you do choose to paint your fairy door, use acrylic craft paints (e.g. FolkArt®, Apple Barrel®, Ceramcoat®, Americana®, CraftSmart®) and apply the paint-appropriate sealer once it’s finished – especially for outdoor use.
In the summer of ’69 (or thereabouts) during a digging adventure, Anna Marie Torre Wright discovered this amazing gift from the earth called clay. With her mother's encouragement, the little girl made a pinch pot and thus a love affair blossomed. Whenever the earth was disrupted on the family farm, if there was any clay to be found in the sandy soil, Anna Marie would scoop it up and enjoy the feel of it in her hands as well as the promise that it could be made into something.
Now that ‘little girl’ gets to play with clay all the time.
Anna Marie and her husband, The Pottery Roadie[tm], share their country home with two dogs and two parrots. When not in the studio, Anna Marie can be found knitting, weaving, or attending renaissance faires.
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Studio hours by appointment only.
Prancing Pony Pottery is a production studio – once pots are finished, they are packed up for shows and galleries or shipped out to fulfill online orders, not displayed in the work space. If you would like to come to visit the studio and see my wares, please contact me in advance and schedule permitting I would be happy to set something up for you.
My annual studio open house and sale is held on the weekend before Thanksgiving – check out the events page for details.
From the first time I held a lump of clay and formed a wee pinch pot as a child, I was hooked on pottery. While it took a long time for that passion to manifest itself in the form of my own pottery studio it has been worth the wait. Exploring the form and function of a pot and translating it from my imagination into clay is a wonderful challenge.
Pottery serves as a visceral connection to the elements for me. And in coming full circle, it’s hard to hold a piece of stoneware and not feel a connection to the hands that made it. The lines of a pot, the gentle curves, the hue of the glaze … are all places the potter contemplates in the creation process.
It has been said that the potter does not have the final say over their creations, that the kiln does. Part of being a potter is learning to control and accept what happens in the kiln; however I feel that ultimately, it is the patron who has the final say about what a piece will become. Just because I create a piece and call it a vase doesn’t mean that someone won’t use it as a drinking vessel. Rather than be concerned about this or take it personally, I embrace it because I have made a piece of pottery that is going to be used and enjoyed.
Anna Marie Torre Wright
- The love of my life, Gregory, who gives me his unconditional support … and doesn’t think that I am crazy for wanting to play with clay all day or show up at the dining table with muddy elbows. And he's the best Pottery Roadie that I've ever had.
- My mother, Marie, who first showed me the wonderful gift of clay straight from the earth; she’s always believed in me … no matter what I have wanted to be when I grow up.
- Tiger, my sister, who not only encourages and inspires me but planted the very seed in my head that I could actually become a potter.