Type of work: pottery

Business Name: Kingsley Weihe Pottery

Kingsley is a potter working in Brookline, Massachusetts, who has been making and selling her work since 1993. Her formal training and professional background are in architecture. She is a registered architect who initially became involved in pottery as a hobby, but soon found it to be a more rewarding and satisfactory medium. Her study of architecture arose out of a simultaneous interest in science and art, but it was the need to actually make things that made clay a more appealing medium - things that still satisfy the needs for form and function that architecture does.

"Many of my designs are inspired by primitive decorative motifs, particularly african. I delight in the slight inexactness of handwork. I do not layout my designs beforehand, and often end up with too much or not enough space when I come full circle, but it is just this deviation that excites me. The marks reflect the tools and the hands that made them. No two designs are ever alike—rather, each one builds on the ones that came before."

price range: $36-180

phone: 617-541-4801

email: kingsley@kwpottery.com

website: kwpottery.com

Vase
stoneware
10" h
$60

Zebra ToteVase
stoneware, 8"w x 3"d x 10" h
$72

Purse Teapot
stoneware, 8" x 4" x 12" high
$156

Bowls
stoneware, 6", 7" and 8" diameter
$36-48

Round Platter
stoneware, 16" diam.
$120