Heron Bay Pottery

Stoneware made slowly,
by the sea.

Wheel-thrown mugs, bowls, and serving pieces fired in a wood kiln on the Oregon coast. Small batches, never the same one twice.

Shop the new collection

Driftwood mug

$48

Tidepool bowl

$72

Sand dollar plate

$56

Anemone vase

$92

From the coast, by hand.

Heron Bay started in 2019 in a converted barn three miles from the Pacific. Every piece is wheel-thrown by hand, dried for two weeks in coastal air, then fired in a small wood kiln we built ourselves.

We use a stoneware body with locally collected sand mixed in, which gives our glazes their slightly rough, sea-worn texture. No two pieces are alike — small variations in color, weight, and shape are intentional.

We make a few hundred pieces a year. When something sells out, it sells out for the season.

From the journal

April 12

Loading the spring kiln

Three days of stacking, two of firing. Sixteen mugs survived the cone-10 reduction. Some of the best ash glazes we've ever pulled out.

March 28

A new clay body

We've started blending in coarser beach sand from the south jetty. Looser surface, more grit under the glaze. It feels like the right direction.

March 2

Open studio, May 18

Our annual open studio is back. Come throw a pot, walk the kiln yard, and pick up something from the seconds shelf at half price.