HELLO THERE!

I’m Hamish.

Nice to meet you!

After my apprenticeship with Mark Hewitt ended in 2018, I worked in potteries in England and Thailand. In 2019, I did a residency at the Shigaraki Cultural Park in Japan, and followed this with a residency at the North Carolina Pottery Center in Seagrove.

Over the past few years, I’ve become more interested in using local wild materials in my craft. This begins with the clay. In North Carolina, I began mixing my own clay and also experimenting with local rocks to make glazes.

In 2020, I began the MFA program in ceramics at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. Over three years there, I studied glaze chemistry using local materials. I took geology classes, which helped me focus my research. My thesis show was titled “Tea time with the Devil”; it showcased four glazes made primarily with one local granite from Devil’s Playground in northwestern Utah. Here’s an article I wrote about it if you want to delve deeper!

In the summer of 2023, I began working at Pleasant Hill Pottery, in Oregon, as artist in residence.

During our time in Utah, my wife, Lauren, and I had two girls (well, she did most of the work). Juniper is our older girl and Flora is the younger one. They keep me as busy as the pottery and I love them and Lauren soooo much.

Follow my clay adventures on instagram : @hamish.jackson.pottery

Credit and thanks for many of the photographs and videos on this website : Kenji Shimizu Photography

Hamish Jackson