Murielle Sullivan - Isle View Pottery

 Isle View Pottery is operated by Murielle Sullivan, and is a small-batch pottery located on Isleview Drive in Stratford, PEI.

The Etsy store and the Facebook page as well as the Instagram feed are easy ways to contact Murielle. She signs her work with both her name and his studio name as well as PEI in the following format.

M Sullivan     Isle View     PEI

Dylan Tierney Stoneware & Porcelain

Dylan Tierney Stoneware & Porcelain is the studio name of Prince Edward Island potter Dylan Tierney who signs his work with his name in the shortened form of D Tierney.

Dylan Tierney Stoneware & Porcelain
photo credit - Suzanne Scott

His Instagram feed and his Etsy store are the best ways to contact him.

At time of writing (Dec 2021) he is the only potter on PEI using a propane kiln to fire his pots thus has a range of glaze effects that are simply not available to other Island potters. He is a juried member of the PEI Crafts Council.

Image credit -- Dylan Tierney Ceramics Instagram 2023

Image credit -- Dylan Tierney Ceramics Instagram 2023

Paul Jones Pottery - PEI

 Many pottery finds remain mysteries and this work fits in that category. We hope that additional information will emerge; any information is appreciated so please let us know if you can help.

The item is clearly signed by Paul Jones, and indicates PEI as the place of creation. No date is indicated. The clay appears to be moderately grogged, which is not commonly used by beginning potters. The semi-closed form also shows good throwing skills by the potter suggesting the work is perhaps that of a skilled potter and not student work. No other items by Paul Jones have been located yet.

Gary Caroll indicated in 2021, "Here are 2 photos of a small vase I have had for many years." Thanks to Gary for both locating the work and providing the photos.

Paul Jones - PEI  photo credit Gary Caroll 

Paul Jones - PEI  photo credit Gary Caroll 

Update -- July 2025,

A comment on this blog helps to provide additional information from his daughter:

"Hi. My name is Megan Jones and I believe this vase was made by my dad, Paul Jones. He had a pottery business from around 1980 to 1982 in Gasperaux, PE where he experimented with wood fired pottery. He got his art degree in Montreal and was a teacher and later a school counselor. He returned to PEI in 2007 and lived in Sturgeon. He passed away January 2024. It is nice to see his work online."

A PEI collector Joe Martell recently located several pieces and has shared the signatures and pictures of the pieces. Thanks Joe.

Pottery mark "Paul Jones PEI" - from collection of Joe Martell

  

Pottery by Paul Jones - from collection of Joe Martell

Pottery by Paul Jones - from collection of Joe Martell

Pottery mark "Paul Jones PEI" - from collection of Joe Martell

Pottery mark "PJ PEI" - from collection of Joe Martell

 

Pottery Marks of Prince Edward Island - Judy Cheverie: Clay Art - Funk & Stuff Pottery

Judy Cheverie produces clay art under the name Funk & Stuff Pottery. She has been an active member of the PEI Potters Studio Co-operative for a number of years.

Her work includes sculptural work as well as functional work. She signs her work with her name - Judy Cheverie and the year.

by Judy Cheverie
photo by Ian Scott

by Judy Cheverie
  photo by Judy Cheverie on Facebook

by Judy Cheverie
  photo by Judy Cheverie on Facebook

Potters Mark used by Judy Cheverie
  photo by Ian Scott

Aileen Brophy

Aileen Brophy was a student at Holland College School of Visual Arts in Charlottetown in the late 1970's at about the same time as her daughter, who has the same name was also a student. The younger Aileen was studying studio jewellery while her mother was a potter and lived in Summerside; she signed her work "Brophy P.E.I." along with the year.

Crystal Stevens - Redrocks Pottery - Summerside, PEI

An excellent article published by The Guardian on August 13, 2018 tell the story of how Crystal of Redrocks Pottery became an Island potter, and developed her signature fox mugs.

North Bedeque potter finding success and fulfillment with line of individualized fox mugs

Colin MacLean (colin.maclean@journalpioneer.com) 

Published: Aug 06 at 11:09 a.m.

In a cozy little workshop, down a pretty little road, lives a fox.

Crystal Stevens, of Redrocks Pottery in North Bedque, shows off Jax, one of the individually named creations from her PEI Fox Mugs brand. - Colin MacLean, Journal Pioneer

His name is Jax and he’s looking for a home.

He probably won’t have to wait long before he’s adopted. His siblings have proven quite popular lately.

Which is good news for Jax – and for his creator.

See, Jax is a PEI Fox Mug.

He was hand-thrown by Crystal Stevens, owner and artist of Redrocks Pottery in North Bedeque.

Stevens launched her PEI Fox Mug brand about a year ago and a combination of word of mouth and being featured by Made in the Maritimes, which has a huge social media following, has made the stoneware items a popular seller.


“People love them. I can’t seem to make enough,” said Stevens.

“I don’t advertise them a lot because when I do advertise them they tend sell out pretty quick.”

As a small business owner Stevens is happy to have a popular product she can build on. But even more so as a potter and artist, she looks forward to each new batch of PEI Fox Mugs.

She does a lot of what’s called ‘production pottery.’ Which means she gets contracted by larger pottery producers to help make their products so they can keep up with their orders. It also means she has to make those items to her buyer’s standards and dimensions. It’s repetitive.

She has her own line of pottery as well, making all manner of household items and beyond. But it’s with her PEI Fox Mugs where she truly gets to play at her craft.

Each mug is the same basic design, but each is also unique. Some are tall, others stout. Some have frowny faces, some have mischievous faces and so on. She’s even working on a line of silver fox mugs, in a nod to the area’s silver fox fur farming history, but it is still in the development stage.

Because each is unique she felt it was only right to give each a name to reflect their personality.

Hence “Jax,” with his worried little grin. 

Each mug comes with a card with its name attached and thank you note for adopting the mug.

Some customers also like picking out their own names for their mugs, or buying a certain mug because it’s personality matches someone they intend to gift it too.


“It’s kind of silly, but it makes me happy,” said Stevens.

“When I throw fox mugs, I just sit at the wheel and throw whatever I feel.”

The relative success of PEI Fox Mugs, and her other work as well, is a great source of pride for her. She started Redrocks Pottery in 2014 and only started at the craft in 2012, using old, second-hand, equipment in her spare bedroom.

That was a difficult time her in life, she said, and pottery gave her an outlet.

“I couldn’t control anything in my life at that time. But I could control that, I could make pottery,” she said.

“I was so happy that I found something I love to do.”

Anyone interested in adopting a PEI Fox Mug, which are $42, or checking out Stevens’s many other offerings, can do so online at her website www.redrockspottery.ca. She also regularly updates her www.facebook.com/RedrocksPottery page whenever there is another batch of mugs.

She also has open hours, noon to 4 p.m., Thursday, Friday and Saturday at her shop at 120 Highview Rd in North Bedeque.

Colin.MacLean@journalPioneer.com

@JournalPMacLean

Bodine MacDonald - Keppoch Kraft

I recently came across two pottery tiles that I believe are both the work of Bodine MacDonald. Bodine Keene Forder met her husband Dr. Sandy MacDonald while he was undertaking a surgical residency at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. Operating under the name Keppoch Kraft, Bodine and Sandy were both active within the crafts community in the 1970's when I first met them through the PEI Crafts Council. These pieces show the use of found objects from nature to make impressions in the clay surface. An obituary for Sandy from 2003 tells of their retirement life together.

"Bodine and Sandy enjoyed many happy retirement years in Keppoch, PEI, where they both kept busy with hobbies and volunteer community work. Sandy developed an interest in silversmithing and became a skillful and artistic jeweller. He was pleased to accept a position as Chairman of the Board of the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown. After his wife's death in 1986, Sandy moved to Victoria, BC where he continued to enjoy his hobby of silversmithing well past his 90th year." Full obituary.

Unsigned but believed to be the work of  Bodine (Forder) MacDonald of Keppoch Kraft.
Keppoch, Prince Edward Island
1970's - size 3 inch in diameter

Reverse of item above
Unsigned but believed to be the work of  Bodine (Forder) MacDonald of Keppoch Kraft.
Keppoch, Prince Edward Island
1970's - size 3 inch in diameter

Ceramic tile by Bodine (Forder) MacDonald of Keppoch Kraft.
Keppoch, Prince Edward Island
1970's - size 3 inch in diameter

Reverse of above tile by Bodine (Forder) MacDonald of Keppoch Kraft.
Keppoch, Prince Edward Island
1970's - size 3 inch in diameter

Keppoch Kraft - candle holder - marked "Keppoch Kraft SVD" - P.E.I.
Collection of Catherine Hennessey - photo by Ian Scott

Keppoch Kraft - candle holder - marked "Keppoch Kraft SVD - P.E.I."
Collection of Catherine Hennessey - photo by Ian Scott

Marilyn MacLean - P.E.I. Potters Cove

Marilyn is a student of Ron Arvidson who attended Holland College School of Visual Arts pottery program in 1982 and followed Ron to the P.E.I. Potters Studio in Victoria Park where both have taught over the years. Her business operates under the name PEI Potter's Cove.


An article on Marilyn's work was published in The Guardian in 2018.

Thirty year passion for pottery turns into side business for P.E.I. artist

Mitch MacDonald (mitchell.macdonald@theguardian.pe.ca) 

Published: Feb 19, 2018

Marilyn MacLean, of P.E.I. Potters Cove, shows some of her work during a craft fair at the Confederation Centre of the Arts. MacLean, who has 35 years of experience making pottery, has seen the demand for her product grow rapidly since creating a home studio last year. MacLean plans to sell her products at local craft shops, the Colonel Gray craft fair and Farm Day in the City before she makes it a full-time job in her retirement. MITCH MACDONALD/THE GUARDIAN

Marilyn MacLean’s successful pottery business appears to be fate.

MacLean, who has nearly 35 years of experience making pottery, has seen the demand for her product grow rapidly since starting her side business P.E.I. Potter’s Cove about a year ago from her Clyde River Home.

The name has an interesting story behind it, said MacLean.

According to the community’s website, a previous MacLean family that lived in the area in the 1850s had a property boundary marked by a cove named “Potter’s Cove” because of the brick kiln that was once located there.

I thought it was fate, it was like it was meant to be,” said MacLean, whose business previously went by “pottery by Marilyn MacLean”. “I’ve had a passion for pottery for over 30 years and finally I realized my dream of having a home studio.”

MacLean said she fell in love with pottery by accident after applying for Holland College’s graphic design course. 

However, the course was filled and MacLean didn’t want to put her education on hold for a year.

“I thought I’d try another medium and pottery was in the course catalogue,” said MacLean. “The rest is history.”

MacLean later worked at The Dunes before taking business at Holland College.

She has worked at Bell Aliant, formerly Island Tel, for the last 25 years, but has never stopped creating pottery.

Once the college closed its fine arts program almost 20 years ago, several former students formed the P.E.I. Potters Studio Co-op in Victoria Park and MacLean was invited to be an instructor.

MacLean is still one of the co-op’s three instructors and teaches both adults and children pottery.

However, last spring saw MacLean realize her dream of making her own home pottery studio.

Starting with a few items for sale, MacLean’s products were in New London’s Village Pottery all last summer.

While she has had orders from as far away as Oregon and British Columbia, MacLean has seen much of her sales come from other local craft shops as well as through individuals at craft fairs and Farm Day in the City.

With somewhat of an overwhelming demand for her products, MacLean said she hopes to keep her production on a lower scale until turning it into a new full-time job once she retires.

“I’ll do my best to make everybody happy and enjoy the success and I’d imagine it will just get better,” she said.

MacLean said she feels her involvement in pottery was fate and noted that she is a “medical miracle.”

When MacLean was born, she spent two years in the hospital while on oxygen, which resulted the loss of sight in one eye.

“It’s odd that life is just, it’s so special and I don’t take it for granted,” said MacLean. “That’s my purpose in life, to spread the love and passion of pottery.”

More information on MacLean’s work is available through the P.E.I. Potters Cove Facebook page.

Mitchell.macdonald@theguardian.pe.ca

Twitter.com/Mitch_PEI

Marilyn MacLean's pottery is sold through Village Pottery in New London, PEI.

Pottery by Marilyn MacLean

Robert McMillan Pottery

The PEI Crafts Council website indicates that:

Handmade porcelain and stoneware pottery by Atlantic Artisan Robert McMillan. Featuring unique designs and bright colors in a wide range of functional gift ware that are microwaveable, dishwasher and oven proof and 100% lead free glazes.

Robert McMillan Facebook page.
Instagram

Address: Borden-Carleton, PEI C0B1X0
Phone: 902-598-8217
Email: penguinmcmillan@gmail.com

Robert McMillan's website - indicates:

"Robert McMillan Pottery represents the accumulation of over 40 years of pottery making experience and craftsmanship by the artist with timeless and enduring patterns.

I use only a high grade commercial stoneware and porcelain clay body that is mid fired to 2200 degrees f.

All of my designs are artistically created from glaze formulas that are 100% lead free as well as being 100% food safe & microwave safe and oven proof and dishwasher friendly.

Sandy Dunes colours are representative of current colour trends that are being used in the ceramics, clothing, paint and decorating industries in North America.

My palette includes among other things, Cayenne Red, Dazzling Blue, Hemlock Green, Freesia Yellow, Celosia Orange and Comfrey Green.

I also incorporate a Cobalt Blue that is rich and deep in tone that has been a staple of pottery makers for centuries around the globe.

The use of a local clay body adds an element of natural colouring and keepsake.

I dig the clay locally from a secured source and clean it, slake it, screen and add stabilizers to adapt it to the main clay body.

I am ever cognizant of form and function in my own work as “Made by hand for your hand” is an important aspect in all my pieces.

Many of my current works reflects the beauty of my area that so dominates the Canadian Atlantic scenery.

Robert McMillan"

Potters mark in 2018 for Robert McMillan is "McMillan"  

Hermann-Suzuki Pottery

The website of the Hermann-Suzuki Pottery indicates:

Isako Suzuki grew up in her father's ceramic studio in Odawara, Japan. Her father, Sansei Suzuki (鈴木三成), is a renowned ceramicist in Japan for his celadon Seiji work, Song style celadon pottery. Isako had been initially trained in wheel-throwing by her father before she started working independently.

After some years of on and off relationship with pottery, she started working on a full-time basis creating her own style of pottery. Her main focus  is colored clay construction or Neriage which she originally took interest in 2008.

Isako continues to seek aesthetic recommendations and critique on her Neriage work from Sansei Suzuki.

She is the primary potter for Hermann-Suzuki Pottery.

As well:

Philip Hermann started pottery with pottery classes at potters' coop studio in Charlottetown, PEI in 2002. Since then, he has participated in various workshops and advanced classes over the years. He now mainly produces large and medium wheel-thrown pieces as well as handbuilt slab work, surface decoration and some Nerikomi work. Philip also takes part in production of commercial product lines as well as management of wholesale products. Philip is a part-time potter for Hermann-Suzuki Pottery as he holds a full-time job elsewhere.  

Their contact information is:

Mailing Address:
PO Box 726 Cornwall
PEI Canada
C0A 1H0

Shop location (summer) :
4740 Route 6 Oyster Bed Bridge, PEI
Tel: 902-621-2161
Our home studio will remain in Cornwall, PEI.

Catherine Hennessey publishes book on Prince Edward Island Pottery Company

Fifty years after buying her first clay jug, Catherine Hennessey ends her quest for answers by publishing Prince Edward Island Pottery Company

by Sally Cole scole@theguardian.pe.ca
Published by The Guardian on January 15, 2015

Catherine Hennessey holds one of the pieces that first piqued her curiosity in pottery 50 years ago. The Charlottetown historian has just published the Prince Edward island Pottery Company.

©GUARDIAN PHOTO BY SALLY COLE

When Catherine Hennessey bought her first clay jug at a Charlottetown auction in 1965, she became curious.
“It looked like it had been made of Island clay, but nobody around could tell me anything about it,” says Hennessey, who purchased the piece to sell in her antique shop in Charlottetown.
She also wanted to be able to share any of that historical information with whomever might buy the jug.
Luckily, a chance meeting with George Leard, a Souris historian, gave her a push in the right direction.
“He told me he thought it was a piece of P.E.I. pottery. He didn’t know anything else,” she recalls.
Discovering that so little was known about the jug was distressing for her.
“It made me nervous,” says Hennessey, who realized she needed to learn more about the pottery, as well as the furniture she was selling.
So, she locked the shop and refused to sell another piece until she had finished her research.
“We didn’t know anything about anything. And (the pickers) were taking (antiques) off the Island by the truckload. And they didn’t know the stories behind the things they were collecting.”
As it turns out, the well-known Island historian never returned to the antique business, but she never left the business of historical research.
Fast-forward 50 years and Hennessey now has the answers to many of her pottery questions in her newly published book, Prince Edward Island Pottery Company. Filled with historical information and anecdotes, the 26-page publication includes colour and black and white photographs of pottery, as well as maps, illustrations and newspaper clippings.
“I’m so quietly happy about this little book. People have been telling me that it’s so important to put little packages of history together, like this. That’s because, if we don’t, these little bits of history will be lost,” says Hennessey, adding the company, Prince Edward Island Pottery, was started in 1880 by Frederick William Hyndman, after his career with the Royal Navy.
Upon moving home, he and his brother Charles, also an entrepreneur opened the business west of Mount Edward Road and south of what is now Belvedere Avenue.
“The site covered about eight acres and included the lily pond that is on the Experimental Farm today. It is said to have one of the sources of pottery clay,” writes Hennessey in the book.
The volume also provides details of the professional dig on the old pottery site conducted in 1970, under the direction of Donald Webster.
“We were really blessed that that man came from the Royal Ontario Museum to do the dig and we have his work, which I’ve quoted quite generously.”
Hyndman’s great-grandson, also named Fred Hyndman, is generous in his praise for the new publication.
“I’ve known that, for a long time, (Catherine) had a particular interest in P.E.I. pottery. She collected things over the years and she’s finally put it together. I think it’s wonderful that she’s done it and that the information is saved for posterity.”
The positive response Hennessey is receiving for the book is encouraging her to do more research on items she has come across in the past.
“What’s next? I am planning a book on Island furniture, an article on Helen Haszard, an artist, as well as something on Victoria Park.
“After all, why stop at one thing if you can do three more?”

AT A GLANCE
Fast facts
What: Prince Edward Island Pottery Company
Where: Pottery for the book is from the P.E.I. Museum and Heritage Foundation collection. Private collectors also loaned their collections.
The decorative tiles that surround the upper part of the chancel at St. Paul’s Church were created by the P.E.I. Pottery Company.
A section on the Spring Park Pottery, a forerunner to Prince Edward Island Pottery, is also included in the book.
Copies of the book: Available at Charlottetown at Details Past and Present, the Book Mark and Showcase, the Confederation Centre gift shop, in Charlottetown.

Charlottetown Pottery Ltd. - 1980's

Charlottetown Pottery Ltd. was a short-lived pottery factory was established on Prince Edward Island in the 1980's which operated in the West Royalty Industrial Park and produced a wide line of decor items. The hoped for stability of the company was based on that fact that they had a contract to supply crock-pot liners. The company operated for awhile but didn't survive financially. Recently I came across these images of their work on ebay. 

The work was signed "Made in Canada - Charlottetown Pottery Ltd."

In 2026 I noticed another piece on Etsy.

Seaclay Pottery - Jamie Germaine

Located at 1043 South Melville Road, South Melville, Seaclay Pottery is the studio name for Jamie Germaine, and accomplished potter whose work forms part of the Prince Edward Island Art Bank Collection.

"Working out of a studio beside her home in South Melville, PEI, Jamie Germaine produces both wheel-thrown and hand-built pieces with a unique style of textured surfacing that has become characteristic of her work. Her surrounding environment of woodland and sea is reflected in the organic nature of the surfaces she creates on her pieces. She has recently been experimenting with the subtle effects of smoke firing on hand-built bowls. She has studied pottery in New York, Vermont, Prince Edward Island, Mexico and Italy and has exhibited in Prince Edward Island and New York."

Seaclay Pottery - display of work by Jamie Germaine at
PEI Crafts Council Christmas Fair Nov 2016

Seaclay Pottery - display of work by Jamie Germaine at
PEI Crafts Council Christmas Fair Nov 2016

Seaclay Pottery - display of work by Jamie Germaine at
PEI Crafts Council Christmas Fair Nov 2016

Seaclay Pottery - display of work by Jamie Germaine at
PEI Crafts Council Christmas Fair Nov 2016

Seaclay Pottery - potter's mark of Jamie Germaine -November 2016

Seaclay Pottery - potter's mark of Jamie Germaine -November 2016

The website for Seaclay Pottery features the most recent work of Jamie Germaine .