Glenfiddich Farm Pottery
Pottery is an ancient art form. Richard’s expertise in this medium has brought him notoriety over the years, but love for the meditative process of bringing each piece to life has been the mark of what this work means to him.
These pieces and others are carefully hand made at his home studio, Glenfiddich Farm Pottery. The studio is situated in a converted 175-year-old former dairy barn on Catoctin Mountain, just west of Leesburg, Virginia.
The farm is still in use. Today, horses graze the property's 20 acres and there is a sizeable flock of colorful chickens, which have free range of the back meadows.
These pieces and others are carefully hand made at his home studio, Glenfiddich Farm Pottery. The studio is situated in a converted 175-year-old former dairy barn on Catoctin Mountain, just west of Leesburg, Virginia.
The farm is still in use. Today, horses graze the property's 20 acres and there is a sizeable flock of colorful chickens, which have free range of the back meadows.
Glenfiddich (pronounced glen-FIDD-ick) is the Celtic word for "valley of the deer," which is appropriate since deer are frequently seen here. Pots are stamped with a deer symbol.
Richard has studied and/or taken workshops with a number of master potters, including Sybil West, Phil Rogers, Michael Simon, Byron Temple, Cynthia Bringle, Malcolm Davis, Mackenzie Smith, Ruthanne Tudball, Seth Cardew, and Paul Soldner, among others. He cites as his strongest influences the work of the English potter Bernard Leach and particularly the Japanese potters Ogata Kenzan and Shoji Hamada.
Richard has studied and/or taken workshops with a number of master potters, including Sybil West, Phil Rogers, Michael Simon, Byron Temple, Cynthia Bringle, Malcolm Davis, Mackenzie Smith, Ruthanne Tudball, Seth Cardew, and Paul Soldner, among others. He cites as his strongest influences the work of the English potter Bernard Leach and particularly the Japanese potters Ogata Kenzan and Shoji Hamada.
Long an admirer of the Japanese esthetic, he has traveled to Japan to research and write about Japanese pottery.Richard's pottery -- a variety of items including vases, bottles, bowls, plates, teapots, covered jars, planters, sake sets, and others -- is fired in a 30-cubic-foot propane-fueled salt kiln that he built in 2000. (See "About Salt Firing") He fires the kiln about every three weeks, or roughly 16 times per year.
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