Collection: Donna Gunn

Donna Gunn has always loved creating things out of any material that was available to her. Donna's focus on clay began in the 1970’s as an art major at the University of New Hampshire, and then continued to Boston University where she earned a BAA in Ceramics. Clay has a seemingly endless variety of ways to form and fire it. The balance of scientific glaze calculation with elements from the earth and the art of making fire work is exciting and the experimentation is endless.

Donna creates pottery using throwing, and hand building techniques, and altering thrown pots. Her firing methods are also diverse using mid fire glazes, a variety of Raku processes, Obvara and Saggar firing. Each of these methods is diverse in itself allowing the form to be in harmony with the firing method, and it’s function.

Donna's pots are inspired by her travels to many different cultures, as well as, her home, hiking in the mountains, or going out on the ocean where she lives in Southern California. Many of her pots include driftwood and branches, or stones, and the Saggar fired pots are fired with local sea weed that often gets pulled along by her paddle board.