Forks Road Pottery

Spécialités

Forks Road has been in business since 1978. We make a comprehensive line of domestic pottery, all wheel thrown and hand decorated, on strong traditional shapes. Come to visit us and watch us working.

We can be found in a vaulting, historic (1855) Great Western Railway Station, at the base of the Niagara escarpment, in the picturesque town of Grimsby, Ontario.

Our decorations include historically authentic, blue and white spongeware, Bennington style brown ware, slip trailed dragonfly, hand painted honey bees, moose, redware, floral designs and a selection of elegant, clear glazed white porcelain pottery pieces.

Historique

Fondé en 1978.

Marsha started throwing pots at Burlington Potters Guild. On the advice of master potter Robin Hopper, in 1973 Marsha moved to England to continue her pottery training. She graduated from the studio pottery program at West Surrey College of Art in Farnham, UK and studied with potters Ray Marshall at Stedham, West Surrey and at the studio of Bernard Leach at St. Ives, Cornwall. In addition she became a licentiate of the Ontario Potters Association of Great Britain.

In 1978 the original Forks Road Pottery came into existence.

In 1981 Daniel Brenner joined the studio. Daniel accomplished major renovations of the old cheese factory studio as well as decorating, clay making and kiln firing over many years.

In 1992 Marsha and Daniel purchased the potter Tess Kiddicks Cottage in Jordan. In 1997, they moved operations to their current location in Grimsby’s Great Western Railway Station.

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Marsha C.

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Marsha was first introduced to pottery in the 1960’s while working as a radiographer, with CUSO, in Uganda, East Africa, Marsha returned to Canada and pursued her new found passion at the Burlington Potters Guild while re-​training and working as a nuclear medicine technician at the McMaster University Medical Centre in Hamilton.

Within a few years she had left the medical field to study ceramics at Sheridan College in Oakville.

From Sheridan, on the advise of master potter Robin Hopper, in 1973 Marsha moved to England to continue her pottery training.

During the next 4 years, she had graduated from the studio pottery program at West Surrey College of Art in Farnham, UK and studied with potters Ray Marshall at Stedham, West Surrey and at the studio of Bernard Leach at St. Ives, Cornwall. In addition she became a licentiate of the Ontario Potters Association of Great Britain AND managed to have a wonderful time!