Artist: Nan Coffin

Nan Coffin, CALIFORNIA

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BIO:

Nan Coffin’s clay career began in central Indiana in the mid-1970’s. She is a self-taught potter, although many influences have come from other potters, books, trade journals, and the many clay workshops and conferences she has attended. Her first studio, Woodsman Pottery, was opened in Whitestown, IN the late 1970’s. Nan moved to southern Indiana in the mid ‘80s and started Log Creek Pottery and studio gallery. At Log Creek Pottery she made a variety of functional wares, from majolica to stoneware and porcelain wood-fired pottery.

In 2001, Nan relocated to San Diego where she started her third studio, Third Pottery. In 2008, she helped with getting the open studio, self-guided San Diego Pottery Tour (sdpotterytour.com) on it’s feet. 

Statement:
I just like to make stuff out of clay. In the last forty or so years, I have worked with earthenware, stoneware and porcelain clays, oxidation, reduction and atmospheric (wood, salt, and soda) firings. My most recent venture, has been using underglazes on porcelain, (high fire reduction) with eye popping colors, and have reduced the number of glaze buckets in my studio to one: clear. Functional work continues to capture my interest; mostly thrown and altered forms, yet I am being drawn more and more into hand-built pieces.