Bridgman Pottery
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Products Offered
Herb Markers, Berry Bowls, Vases, Julep Cups, Serving Ware, Birdhouses, Honeypots, Pitchers
Market Days
Bi-weekly
Contact Information
Melissa Bridgman
719 Dickson Memphis TN 38107
901-722-8905
Please drop by my blog at bridgmanpottery.blogspot.com
or email me at bridgmanpottery@yahoo.com
We also sell our products at etsy.com
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Melissa Bridgman is a Memphis potter who strives to provide classic pieces of pottery that are lovely, handmade, practical, and above all, affordable. This "everyday pottery" is both pleasing to the eye and durable enough to be in heavy rotation on the breakfast table. Her hand-thrown pottery is meant for everyday use: arranging a small clutch of flowers your children bring you, drinking your morning coffee, rinsing seasonal produce in special little colanders called "berry bowls." Everything is mean to be used and made from food-safe high-fire clay and glazes. Most pieces are dishwasher and microwave safe.
Long inspired by the myriad textures, shapes, and colors found in the garden, I am largely a self-taught potter decended from generations of self-taught Southern gardeners. In Winston-Salem, I trained in oil painting at Salem College and in children’s printmaking while completing a year-long internship at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art. About my ‘Delta Zen’ vernacular: in Oxford, Mississippi, my interest in pottery took root during two years of graduate field-research on Southern folk artists through the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. During that time, I also developed an interest in adapted Asian motifs, specifically the concept of Zen space in nature. This is most noticeable in one of my signature serving-piece designs: a hazel-green impression of a ginko or Japanese maple leaf floating on a cream background.You can also see the some Zen balancing with my nascent southern wackiness in my pottery- the restraint and the ladybugs, classic shapes and untempered fluting. We can’t get out of hand, here. At least until I come up with a way to render my bottletree and tire planter- juxtaposed with a classic boxwood sphere- in stoneware.