Bridgman Pottery  is a Memphis, TN studio centered around fine ceramics for your table, your kitchen, your garden.  My very small team and I create work using porcelain, underglazes, pure cobalt washes, and food-safe glazes for durability and safety. 

My work is inspired by vintage treasures and the natural world around me.  I love retro egg cups and cafe au lait bowls in sunny cheery colors, antique Japanese pottery, Chinoiserie, and Victorian transferware: especially the flow blue with its smudgy edges and running images that I seek to turn into contemporary objects of beauty and usefulness. Tumbled ocean rocks, the ever-changing clouds in the blue sky, birds' eggs in the springtime, and the beautiful plants in the Old Forest and rolling green of the Greensward at Overton Park make their way into my sketchbook and onto my pottery.

I am an avowed imperfectionist (which means that I'm a recovering perfectionist).  You'll see some slightly out of round shapes, slight variation in glaze thickness, the occasional smudge or fingerprint that tell you that my very human hands touched each piece you purchase from me.  These imperfections give my work character and begin to tell a story of a full life—lived imperfectly with grace.