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Inspired by the art nouveau and the arts and crafts movement styles. Small vases, to large floor pieces, mirror frames and mantel clocks. Figurative sculpture and functional serving pieces. Organic, colorful, decorative and functional stoneware clay items. Maggie has been a potter and clay artist for 40 years. In the NC mtns since 1977.
We are located in the mountains of NC. East of Asheville and North of Lake Lure. We work at a studio at our home. We also have a small house that we use for gallery space and open house events. It is a Full House of Pottery. I-40 exit 73 , then go S for 2 and .5 miles. Call for a visit anytime or join our e-mail list for news of Open House events..visit our home website for our calendar.
Since 1980 Maggie Jones and her husband, Freeman Jones, have operated Turtle Island Pottery, which has solely supported the family, while raising two children. The functional stoneware pottery was designed for efficiency in production. The oxidized white, tin opacified glaze was a good background for the brushed decoration and provided a pleasing, functional surface for use. This ware with blue flowers, green and yellow accents, is still in high demand after 25yrs.
Maggie's interest in working with the earth's minerals and playing with fire inspired a collection of locally found clays and minerals from several parts of the country and Western NC. She constructed several figurative animal sculptures using clay found in a Rutherford county creek. Other locally found clays and minerals from her collection were applied to the surface for a variety of colors and texture. Some of these sculptures were fired in the electric kiln, others fired with wood.
In the past 10 yrs, Maggie has developed a new style, technique and form of Art Pottery that has captured the interest of the American Art Pottery Collector. These new works are organically shaped and inspired from the works of the Art Nouveau style and Arts and Crafts Movement and by names like Martin Brothers, George Ohr, Teco, Grueby, Tiffany and Amphora. Most of the pieces are started on the wheel and then stretched from the inside in stages. Glazes used are a multitude of commercially prepared glazes, along with her own formulas, giving her a full palette of colors and textures to paint with.
"...It is as easy to judge my productions from four pieces as it would be to take four lines from Shakespeare and guess the rest...” G.E.O.
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