Pottery Marks of Prince Edward Island - Index

- updated Oct 1, 2025

Pottery has traditionally been marked with the place of production, as well as identifying the potter or the studio where it was made. Many studio potters include the year as well. Requests from collectors for information on PEI pottery that arrived by email has grown into a blog about Prince Edward Island potters over time.

Village Pottery in New London, PEI continues to be a big part of our family life; founded by my wife Daphne Large in 1973 it is now owned and managed by our daughter Suzanne Scott, while Daphne and I continue as active potters within the business. My interest in the field developed when I worked as a leather instructor at Holland College School of Visual Arts in 1972, worked with both Barry Jeeves and Ron Arvidson, who were instructors in the pottery studio. They both influenced a generation of potters including myself. I began compiling information on current and historic potters on Prince Edward Island after getting questions by email sent to the Village Pottery address and decided to post the responses in blog format.

Local collectors of Island pottery including Gary Carroll, Tom Banks and Catherine Hennessey have all been generous with sharing their collections with me and providing photographs, which is much appreciated.

This listing is not complete, and we welcome additional information and images or edits that you notice which need correcting. Your suggestions help it grow. You can contact the author via email -- Ian Scott, Charlottetown, PEI.

The current listings includes, (in no particular order):

• Mary Allison Doull
• Helen Moase
• Frieder Hermann - North Shore Pottery - Buzz Article 1999
• Frieder Hermann - North Shore Pottery - Malpeque 
• Rob Wilby - Flat River Craftsmen
• Carr - Burlington Pottery
• Ruth and Leigh Paynter - Burlington Pottery
• Dale Paynter - Burlington Pottery
• Joyce Champion - Kensington
• Hedwig Koleszar - Koleszar Pottery - Gairloch Rd. -- BUZZ article
• Malone - Charlottetown
• Daphne Large - Village Pottery, New London
• Christine Campbell - Village Pottery, New London
• Barb Graham - Village Pottery, New London
• Christopher Dahn - Village Pottery, New London
• Kathy Ethridge - Village Pottery, New London
• Kathy Ethridge - Everyday Pottery, Kensington
• Patti Hawkins - Village Pottery, New London
• Patti Hawkins - Hawkins Pottery, North Granville
• Suzanne Scott - Potter's Daughter & Village Pottery, New London
• Ian & Jack Scott - Village Pottery - Charlottetown & New London
• Sandi Mahon & Katherine Dagg - Stoneware Pottery, South Milton
• Malcolm Stanley - Stanley Studios, Breadalbane
• Michael Stanley - Michael Stanley Pottery, Charlottetown & Victoria, PEI
• Ron Arvidson - Arvidson Clay, South Melville
• Barry Jeeves - Jeeves Pottery, Brackley Pt. Rd
• Harry & Dodi Morris - St. Clair Pottery - Charlottetown
• Ida MacKay - Mount Stewart
• Maxine (Eliott) Stanfield - Charlottetown 
• Carol & Ken Downe - Old Forge Pottery - South Rustico
• Duffy Pottery - Brackley Pt. Rd.
• Peter Jansons, Joel Mills & Eve Llyndorah - The Dunes, Brackley Beach
• Darren Matheson - Trout River Pottery, Millvale
• Cindy & Darryl Lentz - Right Off the Batt - Kinkora
• Jessica Hutchinson - Hutchinson - North Milton
• Phil Hermann & Isako Suzuki - Hermann Suzuki Pottery
• Peter Krauskopf & Kerry Pfefferle - Mud Puddle Pottery
• Peter Krauskopf Potter & Painter
• Kerry Kingston - Pottery By The Sea, North Rustico
• Patricia Richardson - Patsy Pots, Charlottetown
• Martha Carver
• Ellen Burge - Clay Impressions Pottery Studio
• Leslie Kwiatkowski - PEI Smoke-Fired Pottery,  Crooked Barn Pottery, Southwest Lot 16
• Candy Gallant - Sweet & Sour Gargoyles, Crooked Barn Pottery, Southwest Lot 16
• Carl Phillis - "The People's Potter" - Winsloe
• Stone & Sea Pottery - Elizabeth Vessey
• Mr. & Mrs. Thompson - Rainwater Pottery
• Prince Edward Island Pottery (1880-1898) - Book on PEI Pottery Co.
• Charlottetown Pottery Ltd. West Royalty Industrial Park
• Suzi Cameron, Summerside
• Robert McMillan Pottery
• Arden Howard Pottery
• Catherine (Cat) Arsenault - DownHome Pottery, Pownal
• Pieter Ijsselstein - White Gables at Hope River Studio
• Rachna Gilmore Pottery
• Seaclay Pottery - Jamie Germaine
• Anne Coneen Pottery - The Pines - Montague
• Ramsay Pottery - Summerside 
• Marilyn MacLean Pottery - PEI Potter's Cove
• Bodine MacDonald - Keppoch Kraft
• Crystal Stevens - Redrocks Pottery
• Ryan Murphy - Rise Pottery
• Catherine G. Hennessey - Charlottetown
• Island Stoneware - Perry Niessen Studios Inc. Summerside
• Aileen Brophy Pottery - Summerside
•  Lisa Finkle - Finkle Pottery- Summerside
• Jerika Ramsay - The Potter's Perspective - Charlottetown
• Loft Studio - Chris Robinson - The Mad Potter of Cavendish
• Judy Cheverie: Clay Art - Funk & Stuff Pottery
• Nora Lewin Pottery - PEI -- now located Victoria, BC 
• Alicia Kate Pottery - Alicia Snair
• Mary Shumate Pottery
• Meika Keunecke Pottery
• Paul Jones Pottery
• Steele Bits & Pieces Pottery - Steele Ceramics  - Lisa Steele
• Barb MacLeod Pottery
• Haley Potter Pottery - Haley Cole
• Sticks & Stones Pottery - Rachel Ballem
• Dylan Tierney Stoneware & Porcelain
• Isle View Pottery - Murielle Sullivan
• Ebb And Flow Pottery - Canavoy, PEI
• Pretty Good Pottery
• Linko Canada Pottery, Charlottetown
• Perfectly Imperfect Pottery
• Sydney White Ceramics  & Schoolhouse Stoneware
• David Morrow - PEI & Newfoundland 
• Michelle Balderson
• Hesperus Pottery - Hunter River
  
• Bethany Galbraith-Village Pottery New London
• Holly Anne Doyle Dear Margaret Pottery
• Jan Coffin - Coffin's Corner, Orwell
• Maddie Aderson - Maddie Made Pottery 
• Margaret Frizzell - “Paintings of the Island” in Oyster Bed Bridge
• Sharon Fiske -- Clayworks
• David Bennett Pottery - Souris
• Red Cliff Pottery
• Renata Jaeger - Jaeger Pottery Brackley Beach, PEI
• Amy Boswell Pottery, Charlottetown
• Jaiden Carragher Pottery - The Spacey Artist
• Greenmount Ceramics - Charlottetown
• Jamilynn Wilson Ceramics Summerside
• Alex Bevan-Baker Pottery - Bonshaw
• Eulalia Connolly- Charlottetown
• Village Pottery - New London, PEI - 2025 new pottery mark
• Barb MacLeod - Potter, Charlottetown, PEI
• Martin Jarman Porcelain & Pottery - Summerside, PEI
• Betty Rogers Large - Charlottetown, PEI

Betty (Rogers) Large

 Betty (Rogers) Large is best known as a Canadian broadcaster and author, but in retirement she pursued her interests in a number of things including taking courses at Holland College School of Visual Arts, including a pottery night course taught by her daughter Daphne Large in 1981.

It was in one of those courses that she made a ceramic sculpture in the tradition of the ceramic figurine.

She signed it with her initials B E L (Betty Elizabeth Large). In her writing, as an author she had adopted a variation on her maiden and married names Betty Rogers Large.

 

Martin Jarman Porcelain & Pottery - Summerside, PEI

Martin Jarman Porcelain & Pottery operates in Summerside.

Martin Jarman, Summerside, PEI 
Facebook 2025

During the early 2020's Martin worked with Island Pottery of Summerside. Their website indicated that:

Martin Jarman

Since his first pottery lesson at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (NBCCD), Martin has been hooked on pottery. Initially resisting taking a class, that all changed as soon as he got his hands on clay. He was fascinated by the beauty that skilled hands could coax from such a humble material, literally mud from the earth. Until graduation he spent every possible waking moment at the wheel honing his craft. After graduating from NBCCD, Martin moved to Prince Edward Island and began working at Island Stoneware as the junior technician, a job he describes as his working apprenticeship. Surrounded by many experienced potters at Island Stoneware in those early early made every day a huge learning and growing opportunity. After several years, Martin left our studio to embark on a great working journey across the country.

A self-described pottery nomad, Martin has spent the last decade travelling across Canada making pots and teaching pottery. This journey took him from the east coast to west coast and back again. This time was a great experience, exposing him to tons of exciting and different ways of making pots. And, after a decade of upheaval, Martin was left him with a strong desire to settle in one place. As a Maritimer, he felt there was no better place to return to than Prince Edward Island. When he was away from the PEI, Martin found he would always talk about his Island experiences and, especially, his time at Island Stoneware. The return to PEI and our studio felt like a natural return. We are incredibly delighted to have him back!

Martin was, is and will always be driven to create. From sun up until sun down you will find him either elbows deep into clay or holding a paintbrush. For Martin there is no better way to spend a life than creating art in such a beautiful setting as Prince Edward Island.

In 2025 the Facebook page is Martin Jarman Porcelain & Pottery and the Instagram account is Martin Jarman Porcelain & Pottery. The Etsy shop is a source of buying Martin's work.

In 2022 while living in Victoria, BC Martin's pottery mark included one using his first initial and last name:  M. Jarman. On Instagram he indicated that it was a new mark he was trying out.

While employed with Island Stoneware his work was signed with their name.

In Sept 2025 Island Stoneware closed. Martin Jarman Porcelain & Pottery operates in Summerside and uses a ceramic blue oxide stamped pottery mark with a logo including the words "Martin Jarman Porcelain" on the bottom.

Martin Jarman Porcelain & Pottery, Summerside, PEI 
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Martin Jarman Porcelain & Pottery, Summerside, PEI 
Facebook 2025

Martin Jarman Porcelain & Pottery, Summerside, PEI 
2025

Nicole Balderson - Charlottetown

 Nicole Balderson trained at NSCAD University in Halifax, NS. Her ceramic work has included pottery jewellery. This image of her wholesale line of pendants was posted by a NB retailer in 2011. Based in  Charlottetown, Nicole also has an ongoing career in management of the successful family business Owls Hollow.

David Morrow - Potter - Newfoundland & PEI

David Morrow has deep roots on Prince Edward Island, and is currently retired and living on PEI. His career as both a naturalist and as a potter was primarily in Newfoundland. He trained as a potter in Corner Brook, Newfoundland with Margo Meyer in the ceramics program in the Corner Book Vocational School and operated his own pottery studio in Dunville, Newfoundland in the 1980s. He eventually trained at Holland College in Charlottetown, PEI becoming a naturalist working at Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland. His work was primarily wheel thrown. This handbuild-coil construction vase was discovered on PEI. It is signed D M and was marked with his full name on masking tape by the prior owner.

While in Dunville, Newfoundland his mark included this one

SHP Crafts NFLD Morrow

Potters mark David Morrow 1980s

 
 

Pottery by David Morrow, Dunville, Newfoundland, 1980s

Barb MacLeod, Potter - Artist, Charlottetown, PEI

 Barb MacLeod, is a potter and artist, residing in Charlottetown, PEI. She is a juried member of the PEI Crafts Council and sells her work in the PEI Crafts Council Retail Craft Gallery located at 98 Water St. Charlottetown. Here potter's mark is BLeod PEI.

Facebook profile and her Instagram feed are ways to contact her.

Village Pottery, New London, PEI

 As Village Pottery in New London, PEI has operated since 1973 there have been a number of potters who have worked there. A variety of those potter's signatures have been documented in this blog including:

• Daphne Large - Village Pottery, New London
• Christine Campbell - Village Pottery, New London
• Barb Graham - Village Pottery, New London
• Christopher Dahn - Village Pottery, New London
• Kathy Ethridge - Village Pottery, New London
• Patti Hawkins - Village Pottery, New London
• Suzanne Scott - Potter's Daughter & Village Pottery, New London
• Ian & Jack Scott - Village Pottery - Charlottetown & New London
• Bethany Galbraith-Village Pottery New London
• Maddie Aderson - Maddie Made Pottery & Village Pottery

In the summer of 2025, Suzanne Scott, who is the current owner and daughter of Daphne Large and Ian Scott decided to move to a "smooth bottom" approach as carved signatures can produce a rough surface in some cases. To achieve this she has shifted the production work to a stamped potter's mark using an oxide stamping pad and a rubber stamp which provides a permanent mark once it is fired in the kiln.

It includes the words Village Pottery and Prince Edward Island.

Eulalia Connolly - Charlottetown

Eulalia Connolly (1913-1998), was an active pottery student and potter during the 1970s to 1990s in Charlottetown. She studied under both Barry Jeeves and Ron Arvidson at Holland College School of Visual Arts. Eulalia Catherine McNally was born in Donagh, PEI and married Stephen P. Connolly (1906-1991), and lived in Charlottetown. Her potter's mark included a stylized lowercase E along with the year and PEI.

Eulalia Connolly potter's mark 1978

Eulalia Connolly potter's mark 1984

Eulalia Connolly pottery broach - 1978

Alex Bevan-Baker Pottery

Alex Bevan-Baker Pottery is located in Bonshaw, PEI. Alex is an active potter and instructor with the Alley Street Clay Club in Charlottetown.

His Facebook page is Alex Bevan-Baker Pottery

Instagram - alex_bevanbaker

Well known for his crystalline glazes, the technique requires a precise firing regime to slowly hold the kiln temperature at a consistent temperature for the duration of the growth of the crystals. Very few potters have accomplished this level of skill in such a precise glazing technique and currently Alex is the only PEI potter working in this style of glaze.

Jamilynn Wilson Ceramics - Summerside PEI

The website for Jamilynn Wilson captures her approach as a small batch potter living on PEI. It indicated that she is, 

"a self-taught ceramic artist from Summerside, PE, uses local wild clay to connect with her grandparents' roots and reflect on life in Western PE.

Combing her love for Japanese ceramics, traditional and ancient techniques to design and produce useful domestic objects. Mostly thrown, these contemporary ceramics are intended for everyday use and are entirely handmade. In the name of responsible manufacturing, Jamilynn highlights the possibilities of local clays extracted from the nearby beaches.

“Researching, digging, testing, and working with wild clay helps me connect to a place, I dig small quantities of each material, process clays by hand, and use them pure when possible.

I aim at abstracting as little as possible from the original earth, maintaining what could seem an imperfection, be it soluble salts surfacing during the firing, organic and mineral impurities, or non-homogeneous texture, to respect what the material really is. I want to embrace the marks of a maker and the stories behind them.

My glazing approach is in a constant state of progression as a I learn about my local materials and how to process them. “ - Jamilynn Wilson

Currently Jamilynn is working towards a tableware line featuring the Island clay. Along with working on limited edition collections & collaborating with fellow artisans to make one of a kind pieces. Jamilynn is also striving towards brining a wood fired kiln to the Island, and will be releasing workshops very soon to help support that venture."

In 2023 she wrote about her potter's mark. 

"I’ve always known from the very beginning that, my makers mark would be really simple but full of meaning.

Before I made any new work in 2023, I started with my stamp. It’s the same simple j, but slightly altered and much smaller than before. Ironically I designed it before taking notice that it has similar characteristics from my tattoo.

The anchor on my thumb was imprinted from a first young love over a decade ago. And has now become a symbol for the role I take part in when it comes to my family, and marks my life living and working by the sea."

Jamilynn Wilson Ceramics -- Instagram 2023

Potter's Mark -- Jamilynn Wilson Ceramics -- Instagram 2023

 

Her Instagram account shows "the processes involved in the craft and the ideas and discoveries she encounters along the way."

You can contact her directly via her contact  page.

Greenmount Ceramics - Charlottetown

This work of Greenmount Ceramics, locate in Charlottetown from the 1990’s was for sale on Etsy and since I have not documented their work previous it is a good opportunity to add this example. Slip cast using commercial moulds, this was typical of the style of work with a strong focus on the glaze. The bottom shows their signature: