Hi, I’m Sarah Chenoweth Davis, porcelain addict and consummate craftsman. I love patterns, graphic line, and bold colors. My ploy is to reel you in with graceful, charming character, and keep you enraptured with wondrous detail and texture, in order to bring some joy and intimacy to your everyday life.
Every piece is lovingly crafted, from wet clay to the very last dot of glaze, by me, newly relocated to New Jersey, outside Philly.
Welcome!
Hi there! I’m Sarah Chenoweth Davis, porcelain addict and consummate craftsman. I love patterns, graphic line, and bold colors. My ploy is to reel you in with graceful, charming character, and keep you enraptured with wondrous detail and texture, in order to bring some joy and intimacy to your everyday life. Every piece is lovingly crafted, down to the last dot of glaze, by me. Recently life has given us a new adventure, a cross-country move from our home of two decades, Portland, Oregon, to my husband’s childhood stomping grounds outside Philadelphia. Over the summer of 2021 (and, if I’m honest, continuing through ‘22) I built out a new home studio! In addition to crafting colorful pots, I am a teaching artist with the Perkins Center for the Arts, Shop & Gallery Assistant at The Clay Studio, and percussionist and vocalist for a variety of musical projects with my husband, Brian Cammina.
I became enamored with clay at an early age and was lucky enough to have my first ceramics class in middle school. I continued to take as many ceramics classes as I could, even in college, and minored in studio art along side a biology major. After college I almost applied to grad school for conservation biology, but the clay called…so I moved to Oregon and built my first studio in the foothills of Mt. Hood. Almost 20 years later I have been a student, a teacher, a tech, a curator, a fellow, and a gallerist, and I am more devoted and passionate than ever about clay, pottery, and the power of objects to bring joy and foster connection.
I made pots in small batches, working on 20 -50 pieces at at time. My cycle of making begins on the wheel, throwing most of my forms without a bottoms -except bowls - bowls are special. I then finish each piece with hand-built elements like slab bottoms and handles. Each piece receives multiple layers of underglaze decoration, hand-brushed, often over patterns created with tape, wax resist, and stickers. Additional fine details are added by carving in delicate shapes and accenting or embellishing with dots of dimensional glaze. Most pieces receive decoration before and after bisque firing. All pieces are lined in a food-safe, clear, glossy glaze, and then wet-sanded after the final firing. Each piece is one-of-a-kind, designed to delight the eyes and fingertips. Don’t forget to look at the bottoms!
Keep scrolling for a peek into my studio and process. Feel free to reach out with questions and commission inquiries. And thanks so much for visiting!
xoxo - Sarah
