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
• Kasia Foster - Mullein Pottery Souris, PEI
• Emily Dunsmore - Studio Gallery, Victoria, PEI (and Countenay, BC)

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.

Amy Boswell Pottery, Charlottetown, PEI

Amy Boswell is a Charlottetown based potter who is also a teacher. She sells her work through Village Pottery in New London, PEI.

Her signature stamp is applied to the bottom with combination of letters.

Amy Boswell Pottery, Charlottetown, PEI

  

Amy Boswell Pottery, Charlottetown, PEI

Amy Boswell Pottery, Charlottetown, PEI

Amy Boswell Pottery, Charlottetown, PEI

Maddie Anderson - Maddie Made Pottery & Village Pottery

The work of potter Maddie Anderson is marked under the name Maddie Made Pottery.

Maddie's webpage and Instagram feed as well as Etsy shop are all ways to contact her directly. Her business Facebook page indicates:

Hi there

I don’t think I’ve really introduced myself on here and I wanted you guys to get to know me a bit better!

My name is Maddie Anderson and I’m a ceramic artist from Prince Edward Island. I first touched clay when I was nine years old at Village Pottery (swipe for that throw back). But it wasn’t till about seven years ago that I started taking lessons and thanks to my amazing teacher @peipotterscove I’ve been practicing ever since. 

About a year ago I really decided to give this whole pottery thing a 100%. I got a job as a potter at Village Pottery (yes, the same place I first tried pottery all those years ago) and started attending the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design! And in about a week I’ll be studying ceramics full time for the next two years! 

I’ll be forever grateful that I discovered ceramics. A little piece of me goes into every single piece I make and I hope that shines through.

Thanks to each and every single one of you for following along and supporting me.

 The pottery she produces at Village Pottery in New London, PEI is signed with Village Pottery as well as her initials MA, the year and PEI.

Holly Anne Doyle -- Dear Margaret Pottery

Holly Anne Doyle, operates her business as a potter using the Instagram handle Dear Margaret, and her website is hollyannedoyle.com

She indicates that her work is "Handmade by the sea PEI, Canada"

She signs her work "holly anne pei"

Pottery by Holly Anne Doyle -- photo by Ian Scott 2022

Pottery by Holly Anne Doyle -- photo by Ian Scott 2022

Pottery by Holly Anne Doyle -- photo by Ian Scott 2022

Bethany Galbraith -- Village Pottery

 

This short interview was published by Village Pottery in New London, PEI on both Instagram and Facebook in August 2022.

Bethany Galbraith is one of our newest potters to join the Village Pottery team after graduating from @nbccdlive. Let’s get to know her with a short Q&A: 

Where are you from?

- I'm originally from Ontario. 

How’d you get into pottery?

-I got into pottery when I attended the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design and chose to specialize in ceramics. 

What’s your favorite thing to make?

- Mugs are my favourite thing to make. 

What do you enjoy doing in your free time?

- In my free time I enjoy reading, watercolour painting, and taking walks on the beach. 

 Bethany Galbraith's potter work currently (2022) is signed with Village Pottery and her initials BG as well as PEI and the year.

Alicia Kate Pottery Co.

 The pottery of Alicia Kate is marked at time of writing (2020) with the location marks of NB, PEI and NS, as well as the potter's mark, Ali Kate. The Facebook page indicated that 

"All of Alicia Kate Pottery Company’s pieces are hand crafted by Alicia Snair, in Amherst, Nova Scotia. Please message for prices and orders!"

Alicia Kate has connections to all three Maritimes provinces and has chosen to mark her pottery with three location marks - while clearly indicating that she is based in NS currently. As this blog is to assist pottery collectors with identifying work marked PEI or made in PEI, we have included Alicia Kate Pottery Company.

The Instagram account and Facebook page are helpful as it the company website aliciakatepotteryco.com launching NOV 7, 2020 at 10AM.

Alicia also makes pottery for Village Pottery in New London, PEI. On that pottery she marks with initials AS as well as Village Pottery, PEI and the date in the form 20 to indicate 2020.

Pottery Marks of Prince Edward Island - Jack & Ian Scott - Village Pottery

This post has been updated in 2023 by Ian Scott.

Writing about myself does not come as easy as other entries in this blog, and thus as a studio potter I am just now writing a bit about my own potter's mark. The joined VP mark is the signature used jointly by the production from the studio I shared with our late son Jack Scott from 2013-2021, and represents the initial letters of our family shop - Village Pottery which is located in New London on the north shore of PEI. I  have continued to use the same VP mark in the years since.

My wife Daphne Large, and daughter Suzanne Scott are also potters and in 2012 my dabbling in clay became a serious pursuit developing slab construction techniques which use many of my prior skills and tools in a converted leatherwork studio. Joined by son Jack in 2013 who had returned to PEI from Vancouver BC where he had developed an interest in ceramics, there were four family members making pottery during those very productive years. Our studios overlapped in the finishing of pieces as Daphne and Suzanne glazed and fired the work Jack and I produced, and thus they shared in the creative process of each of our pieces in selecting and applying glazes. 

We played a role in their items as well by firing kilns and recycling scrap clay from their studios thus while the operation is spread over four studios in three locations in Charlottetown and in New London, most pieces have been handled by three if not four members family members before they reach our customers. Thus using a "VP PEI" studio mark for the work reflects better the combined effort than several signatures on each piece. This is also standard practice in many traditional studios where more than one potter contributes to the finished piece, and the finished piece bears the mark of the studio rather than initials of individuals.

Jack was a highly innovative potter who believed in our studio motto of continuous improvement; many of his ideas live on though the items, techniques and designs he developed which are still produced. The Jack Scott Memorial Scholarship Fund was created in his memory supporting students graduating from his high school who like him have strong interests in Computer Science.

VP potter's mark with PEI and year

Ceramic tool made for making VP potter's mark on base of handles.

VP mark on bottom of pottery as well as on base of handle.

A Royal Gift

As a craftsman in the 1970's and 1980's the idea of having an item commissioned as a gift to royalty was pretty special.

The first instance was for the 1973 visit to Prince Edward Island of Queen Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, as part of the celebrations surrounding the centennial of the Island’s entry into Confederation.

Richard Whitlock, a designer had been given hired to compile a collection of PEI photographs and the project had evolved into hand binding a linen-covered album with handwoven PEI linen. Once completed they realized that the book which was larger than an encyclopedia volume needed a proper slip-case and I was approached to make a leather case for the massive book and attach an engraved silver plaque to the top. Never having made anything of this scale previously I was a bit intimated but figured that using techniques similar to that used on smaller items might work. I had also learned when ordering raw materials to order extras in case of an error.

I measured the book but was not allowed to keep in my workshop lest it be damaged and thus was relieved that the actual book fit the leather case when the designer arrived for pick-up a day or two before the presentation ceremony. Richard Whitlock as the designer was invited to be on hand when officials presented the gift, and while the Queen nodded approval with the gift it dawned on him that something was wrong at that point. The box had been designed to open on the right hand side as requested, but the book came out either upside down or backward when taken from the case since it really needed to open on the left side.

A call arrived from Richard shortly afterward wondering if I was available for a consultation. The gifts had become the property of the recipient, but he had convinced someone who was now responsible for caring for the items that the case and book needed to be "touched up" and would be returned to the staff traveling with the royal visitors before the entourage left the province the next day. The question was whether I could disassemble the case and remake it as a left opening case before their departure. Mission Impossible had been a popular TV show and there was both a clandestine aspect and a technical challenge that seemed familiar to the request as tearing it apart to salvage the silver plaque could have ruined the original case. It was something I couldn’t guarantee the results of but was prepared to try.

Luckily I had an extra hide of the special leather ordered for the project should it been needed, and thus began the process of taking apart the top of what was now royal property with the attached silver plaque and remaking a new top then reattaching the silver. The plaque was itself the work of a silversmith and the attachment process was unique as it was sewn onto the leather using silver wires which I made into silver thread. After making each thread I discovered that the only problem was that hand sewing with wire is not an easy process as it could twist and kink on each stitch. Taking the stitching apart was even worse.

Thus began a full night of work in the workshop - but come dawn the case was reconstructed and presented to Richard who quietly returned it to the staff responsible for safe keeping of the various royal gifts. No one was the wiser as to what had actually happened during the period of ‘touch up’ and I went off to get some much needed sleep.

The second time I was approached was in 1983 when the Prince of Wales and Princess of Wales, who had the year before become new parents were visiting. At that time there was an effort to ensure that there would be something of interest to a young child now that the family included one son. The choice was again something handcrafted being a set of pine toys made at the Toy Factory in Murray River operated by the Shumate family. Al Shumate with his long white beard was the quintessential Santa in his workshop for generations of visitors and his toys had a simple elegance. The set chosen included several toy vehicles selected by Henry Purdy, RCA who was head of the Holland College School of Visual Arts at the time, and my employer. He approached me to see if something could be made to enclose the set. The design we settled on included a leather cover that enclosed the set while being easily opened by children to play with the toys. The case was assembled without incident. Henry Purdy was very conscious of showing respect for craftspeople and although invitations to the royal garden party had already been finalized he made sure that two extra tickets were found for my wife, Daphne and myself to attend the event held on the grounds of Government House where the Prince and Princess were the guests of honour.

Having made many items that visitors to PEI have taken home to remember their visit here it was a special honour as a craftsman to be selected to create both these gifts.

Perhaps the story told by my wife Daphne from childhood shows the natural drive within humans to bestow gifts on others, especially upon special visitors. She was an eight year old who had received a set of what was labeled "international candies" a box of chocolates from her parents that had figures wrapped in foil for each nation. Somehow these international candies which represented the native dress of various countries were special for her and worthy of presenting to someone who had also come from afar. Thus during the 1959 visit to Charlottetown of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, this nine year old managed to deliver through the open window of the motorcade one of her treasured candies - her gift to the Queen whom she thought might enjoy one of her treasured chocolates. Not sure lobbing projectiles through open car windows met protocol then or now, or if melting chocolate is ever welcome landing on ones lap, but the intent of a child in sharing something special with others on the spur of the moment was genuine.

A Visit with Daphne at Village Pottery

New London Village Pottery is featured in a new video produced by Joey Weale for ArtisanPEI

Pottery Marks of Prince Edward Island - New London Village Pottery - Kathy Ethridge

Kathy Ethridge join Village Pottery around 2004 and is a multi-talented craftsperson who besides being a potter, is also an accomplished spinner, weaver, and woodworker.

In 2010, along with partner Robert Kennedy she opened Everyday Pottery in Kensington, PEI.

While working at Village Pottery, she signed her work with the studio name as well as her own initials "KE."

Pottery Marks of Prince Edward Island - New London Village Pottery - Patti Hawkins

Patti Hawkins began her pottery career at New London Village Pottery, studying with Daphne Large while she was employed in the shop.

Her work during that time included both the shop name "Village Pottery" - as well as her own initial and name, "PHawkins."



Since establishing Hawkins Pottery Studio in North Granville, her work has been signed with "Patti Hawkins."

Pottery Marks of Prince Edward Island - New London Village Pottery - Large

New London Village Pottery has operated since 1973, and has trained and employed a number of potters over that time. Started by Daphne Large following her graduation from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, she has typically signed all her work since with "Large - Village Pottery - PEI", as well as including the year.

Staff would find it humourous in the early days when customers would repeatedly pick up items all marked Large and say - "Do you have things in any other sizes ?"

As other potters joined the operation they would also sign their work "Village Pottery - PEI" but often add their own initials or name.

Confusion existed with a business in Nova Scotia which had opened around the same time also called Village Pottery. The addition of New London to the name helped but it was a long name to place on every piece of pottery. The Nova Scotia business eventually changed their business name which solved the issue.

In 1973 all work was in a red earthenware, but in the late 1980's a transition was made to a white clay body. In 2010 some work is made with a reddish clay but the majority is based on white.