Ginny Marsh

Welcome to my website, which includes a gallery of some of the stoneware and porcelain vessels I have made over the years. Like many other potters, I was first captivated by the sheer fun of shaping mud. Then I encountered the fire, which turns the mud back into stone. The resulting pots have a quality of transference which, without words, gives you a good sense of the maker. Holding a hand-made pot from a friend or from a potter of thousands of years ago is, in fact, a sort of way of shaking hands with the maker. There may even be visible fingerprints of the maker which remain as a testament to their presence. In some ways, pots may seem abstract, but the subject matter is really hospitality. In them, we offer food and drink and witness to one another, so they become a way to reach out and touch one another. I use the most basic hand-forming techniques to make all sorts of stoneware and porcelain vessels— coiling, building with slabs, throwing on the potter’s wheel. They are fired to cone 10 in a small gas-burning kiln. I find endless variety and challenge in working with forms and textures, both visual and physical.