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🌿 Jason & Madeleine | Creative Duo in Helena, MT 🏞️

This vase rode the baffle near the flue, up high, where the draft pulls hard and the atmosphere thins out. It’s a spot t...
04/28/2026

This vase rode the baffle near the flue, up high, where the draft pulls hard and the atmosphere thins out. It’s a spot that doesn’t get the heavy ashfalls of the firebox or the quiet gradients of the back wall. Instead, it gets turbulence: quick temperature swings, sharp bursts of flame, and those fleeting mineral traces carried in the pull toward the chimney.

You can see it on the surface with the subtle blushes, the light ash veil, the way the tall neck recorded every shift in the draft. A vessel finished in the fast-moving edge of the kiln’s weather.

This mug came out of the wood kiln looking like it spent a season in the mountains, smoke‑washed, ash‑kissed, and carryi...
04/28/2026

This mug came out of the wood kiln looking like it spent a season in the mountains, smoke‑washed, ash‑kissed, and carrying the soft gradient of a long burn.

The surface holds a quiet record of the firing: layers of wood ash, flame path, and kiln atmosphere settling into a natural gradient from warm iron tones to pale ash‑white.

You can see where the heat stalled, where embers pressed close, where the anagama kiln airflow left its signature.

A vessel shaped by flame, patience, and a little bit of weather, the kind of piece that could only happen in wood fired ceramics, where every mug becomes its own small geology.

Dreaming about river water, wood smoke, long firings…and all the time it takes that we don’t always have.Next weekend, i...
04/26/2026

Dreaming about river water, wood smoke, long firings…
and all the time it takes that we don’t always have.

Next weekend, instead of being on the river or in the studio we’ll be in Bozeman.

This fish started with a little cobalt, then spent long days in the anagama kiln catching ash, flame, and whatever the firing had to give.

Each fish comes out a little different—some quiet, some marked deep by fire—like they’ve already been somewhere.

If you’re craving river time or that kiln heat too, come find us. We’ll have a whole school of them with us.

Stop by the Handmade MT Fair in Bozeman May 1 and 2nd and see them in person.

This mug entered the kiln as a quiet, unassuming form, then spent days in the shifting weather of the anagama kiln. Flam...
04/23/2026

This mug entered the kiln as a quiet, unassuming form, then spent days in the shifting weather of the anagama kiln.

Flames swept across its surface, ash settled like drifting sediment, and heat carving its own slow geology.

What emerged feels less like a finished object and more like a record of everything it endured: soft gradients where the fire paused, ember‑blushes where it pressed close, textures written by chance and atmosphere.

A small vessel, fully transformed, carrying the memory of the burn.

A tiny mountain. Made to hold a bit of wild.Eight days in the anagama kiln left behind ash, movement, and a surface that...
04/22/2026

A tiny mountain.
Made to hold a bit of wild.

Eight days in the anagama kiln left behind ash, movement, and a surface that feels like weathered ground.

Not everything makes it through a firing intact and this one cracked underneath, like earth that shifts and stays that way.

Kissed by ash and fire. 🔥 This mug came out carrying the full story, natural ash deposits, rich flashing, and texture ca...
04/22/2026

Kissed by ash and fire. 🔥 This mug came out carrying the full story, natural ash deposits, rich flashing, and texture carved by the path of the fire. Just wood, clay, and atmosphere working together in ways you can’t fully control.
Every surface shift is a record of where it sat in the kiln, how the flame moved, and how the ash settled. That unpredictability is what makes wood firing so addictive and every piece completely one of a kind.

Eight days in the fire, and it comes out breathing.This little fish, part sculpture, part quiet vessel, sat deep in the ...
04/21/2026

Eight days in the fire, and it comes out breathing.

This little fish, part sculpture, part quiet vessel, sat deep in the heart of an anagama kiln, where flame and ash made their mark.

Just wood, time, and the slow language of heat.

Every surface tells the story: soft blushes of ash, freckled constellations, flashes of ember where the fire lingered a little longer than expected. You can almost trace the path of the flame with your fingertips.

It can hold a single stem. Or nothing at all, just a reminder that the river is waiting.

Spent the weekend in Missoula loading up the anagama wood kiln. It is a massive team effort to fire a kiln this large.
03/08/2026

Spent the weekend in Missoula loading up the anagama wood kiln. It is a massive team effort to fire a kiln this large.

Just and a man and his pot!
02/26/2026

Just and a man and his pot!

First wood prep day at the wood kiln! Perfect weather for wood stacking.
02/08/2026

First wood prep day at the wood kiln! Perfect weather for wood stacking.

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