Katabatic Pottery

I am a dedicated production studio potter near the end of my professional career in Surgery. Originally trained on the pottery wheel in college and after spending a summer at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena MT, I embarked an a long career in medicine and surgery during which time I never touched any clay. However, over the past 5 years I have re-discovered the love of working with clay and making pottery. This has grown into a dedicated studio in an industtrial space in Boise. This facility is comprehensive with clay recycling, wheels for throwing, a space for glazing and kilns for firing the finished pieces.

I have focused on high fire functional pottery with a propensity to scale up. In 2023 I took a 2 week course on making large Onggi stoneware pots in South Korea. Additionally, I have learned how to fire with atmospheric soda to enhance the surfaces of my pottery at our local community ceramic facility in Boise.

Specializing in larger belly pots made from stoneware and porcelain lends itself to a ongoing production of indivually handmade Onggi kimchi fermentation vessels and rimmed water moat fermentation crocks. The pottery is principally fired to cone 10 in a soda atmospheric firing of stoneware and porcelain for the rustic effect, or to cone 10 reduction firing for refined porcelain pottery. I personally make all of the pottery on the wheel that is listed for sale. Firing all of the pottery occurs in our gas and electric kilns in our Boise Idaho studio. My spouse does all the packing and arranges shipping. We ship primarily with fedex. The charge for shipping you see at checking out helps defray the high costs of trans-national shipping. Working with fedex allows for better quality control and mitigates breakage.