Suzi Cameron Pottery, Summerside

 The Nova Scotia Centre for Craft & Design has the following entry for:

Suzi Cameron BFA, BA
Cameron is an established stoneware potter and multi-media artist. During the winter, Suzi makes decorative tableware at Clayworks Pottery in Halifax and each summer, since 1986, Suzi has returned to her studio at the Lefurgey Cultural Centre in her hometown of Summerside, PEI. There she produces hand-painted pottery for sale on The Island. Cameron has received numerous scholarships and awards from The Banff Centre for the Arts to study with Harry Davis, Walter Ostrom and Bruce Cochrane, from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University to help complete a Bachelor of Fine Art, and this past year from the Nova Scotia Potters Guild for ongoing historic research. Her multi-media work has been included in international exhibitions and festivals.

The 2004 Craft, Art, and Giftware Guide issued by the Province of PEI indicated the stores where her work was sold at that time.

Nova Scotia Centre For Craft and Design photo.

Suzi signs her work with the following mark, "Suzi PEI"

From the collection of Tom Banks

From the collection of Tom Banks

Pottery Marks of PEI - Frieder Hermann, North Shore Pottery - Malpeque, PEI

Frieder Hermann of North Shore Pottery located Malpeque, PEI, was a key part of the Island pottery scene during the 1990s when he operated his studio in a building behind their restored farmhouse in the village. Frieder and his wife retired back to Ontario after 2005 to be closer to family members there. North Shore Pottery (the name) may have been a way to pay homage to the nearby historic North Shore House Hotel, which had been the first tourist operation in Malpeque with the building dating to 1810. It  remained standing into the 1980s.

An article on Frieder Hermann published by The Buzz in 1999 captures his history, from his immigration to Canada from Germany in 1959, to his start in pottery in Montreal in the early 1960s eventually leading to becoming a full time potter in 1967. Moving to rural Quebec in 1970, Lakefield, Ontario in 1981, and Prince Edward Island in 1989, he settled in Malpeque where he operated a gas-fired kiln using reduction firing (oxygen depletion to draw out unique colours from the clay and glazes). At the time reduction firing was rare on PEI so his work was unique. His inclusion of local clay also added a unique quality rarely seen in Prince Edward Island pottery.

The collage of his pottery was from a link that was available for many years but is no longer active. The thumbnail shots of the pottery remains as an indication of the variety of his forms and glazes.

The Canadian Heritage Information Network list him as

Hermann, Frieder

Born - 1934-11-11 in Stuttgart, Germany

Resident in 2005 of Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Immigrated to Canada in 1959

Other name -- Hermann, Fred Paul

Frieder was an active production potter in Malpeque, Prince Edward Island for many years during those years he signed his work with his first name. "Frieder". Some pots also has a potters mark or chop mark. The sample we have seen is unclear but possibly was the initials of North Shore Pottery NSP. Any assistance in adding to this blog entry are appreciated.

The three images below, show a piece that is believed to be by Frieder. Found on PEI in 2024 it shows a hand-signed bottom as well as what may be a chop-mark. Any assistance in determining if this identification is correct would be appreciated

Pottery Marks of Prince Edward Island - The Anne Pottery

Annette Galloway operated a pottery studio on Edinburgh Drive in Charlottetown, PEI in the 1970's and 1980's, known as The Anne Pottery, a play on her own name as well as the Island's best known red-head the fictional character Anne Shirley of Green Gables fame.

Her glazes have the characteristics of a gas fired kiln but were fired electrically.
Her signature was, The "Anne" Pottery - Ch'town - PEI

Pottery Marks of Prince Edward Island - Stone & Sea Pottery

Stone & Sea Pottery was a business established in 1999 by Elizabeth Vessey, at RR#2 Cornwall, Prince Edward Island. Registered in December of that year, the Royal Gazette indicates on May 10, 2008 that the listing was removed from the registry of PEI businesses due to non-renewal of the listing.
Elizabeth signed her work with the company name and the province - Stone & Sea PEI.

Pottery Marks of Prince Edward Island - Anne Pottery

This work signed Anne is from PEI.


Any help in identification would be greatly appreciated.

Pottery Marks of Prince Edward Island - Duffy Pottery

"Of the Isle" was a craft shop in Brackley, PEI that operated in the 1960's & 1970's by Mrs. Duffy from Charlottetown. Her son Philip Duffy, an Island potter at that time supplied her shop with pottery. His work was signed "Duffy PEI". Now a resident of the province of Quebec, Philip continues to pursue his ceramic interests in the sculptural side of the art, rather than in functional pottery. He wrote in 2012 to indicate how the shop building,

"Was bought and moved in the late 1970's  from Brackley to make into a cottage, it was a few miles north of the [Charlottetown] Airport, soon after Fair Isle Motel . . . my mother had at least 30-40 craftspeople represented in her shop, at the time. I loved all the variety, really fantastic, to see Levitt's woodturning -- no longer... Axel Johnson [woodturning]. When Moira and I went to see him in Little Sands, what a treat ! One time the road was blocked, June for road construction, we walk a half  mile, across fields, when we got got there, Axel, said 'Well I know the road is blocked, how did you get here?' Moira answered, well, 'We walked all the way from Charlottetown,' Axel was surprised, then, he said  'Well that will take some lard off your behind !' "

Pottery Marks of Prince Edward Island - Carol & Ken Downe Pottery

Carol and Ken Downe's pottery was located in Rustico, PEI and operated under the studio name of Old Forge Pottery - having located their retail shop in a former blacksmith shop with their pottery studio in an adjacent heritage house on the same property.

Carol developed the business beginning with an early interest in ceramics as a hobby. Having lived in Alberta she and her husband Ken returned to PEI in the 1970's. Carol's interest blossomed through following the example of her mother who in retirement had just become a student at Holland College School of Visual Arts in Charlottetown. Carol registered at the college as well and they both studied under Barry Jeeves and Ron Arvidson.

Carol's husband Ken developed an interest in the business and retired early from his career to join her in the business - assisting in all aspects of the business with Carol as the primary potter. Working as business partners Carol and Ken were prolific potters during the late 1970's until the studio closed following Ken's death and Carol's retirement.

The Royal Gazette for PEI indicates that on May 24, 2002 that the partnership known as The Old Forge Pottery & Crafts, which had been registered by Kenneth G. Downe and Carol Downe was dissolved.

Their studio work was signed Downe - PEI. As well Carol signed some work with C Downe - PEI.