Martha and Bill Hayes

“For me the magic of making pots is and has always been working on the wheel. I am centering a part of myself every time I center a piece of clay.” Martha Hayes

Martha and Bill love to make pots together in their Hallieford studio. The colors of nature are reflected in their extensive line of functional stoneware and one of a kind Raku pieces. Color abounds in their studio ~from yellow daffodils and lush green grasses of early spring to purple irises in May, red tomatoes of summer garden, blue waters in Godfrey Bay to golds and browns of  autumn leaves. Throughout the seasons, Mathews inspires their work and enriches life.

Bill and Martha produce wheel thrown and slab built functional stoneware pottery. After firing their pots the first time to bisque temperatures of 1850 degrees, they glaze their pots with three base glazes and then splash oxide washes over top the glaze for color. They then fire their pots to stoneware temperatures of 2400 degrees in a gas fired reduction kiln.