One of the things that we feel makes Briarhook Farm Ceramics special is our ability and desire to create art together. When I say together, I don't mean every piece has both of our hands on it every time. A lot of what we do as a husband-and-wife artistic team is to enhance and develop our art when one of us is doing one particular part of it and the other doing the next step. An example of this is Lori does most of the glazing.

Okay, actually Lori does all the glazing.

It isn't because Jeremy can't glaze. It's because he's not as good at it as Lori is and quite frankly, he's incredibly messy with glazing and a bit impatient with the process.

So, we divide work processes like these equally between us.

Jeremy makes big pots, tall vases, and then Lori glazes them. When we make coffee cups or steins, Jeremy makes the body of the cup and Lori adds on the handles and when they are ready, she glazes them.

Jeremy mostly manages the kilns, but Lori helps with the prep work and other required processes.

The outcome is that each piece that comes out of our studio is an amalgamation of both of our talents.

Whereas Jeremy makes larger pieces, Lori makes smaller ones. It’s simply how much clay either of us is capable of working with. We can and do trim each other’s pottery once its leather hard before its bisque fired and then Lori attaches all needed handles. Jeremy packs and fires the bisque kiln. Then Lori will wax all the bottoms of the pottery, then do all of the glazing. Once everything is ready for a glaze firing, Jeremy loads that kiln. We are both capable of firing off the gas kiln and do since its totally old school manual controls and needs to be baby sat, especially towards the end of the firing.