'What I like most is making artful pottery that will be used every day - objects that bring the intimacy of the handmade into people's homes, and that encourage us to stop and enjoy the experience of dining.'

Ellen Grenadier has been making tableware and custom tiles and murals for over 30 years. Located in Western Massachusetts, Grenadier Pottery is currently producing a line of stoneware that incorporates impressions from the Berkshire Hills in elegant bowls, plates, sush platters and more, all glazed with cobalt blues, copper greens and iron ambers. A leaf or flower will be pressed into the clay, each one individually considered and placed by the artist, each piece unique. No molds or forms are used and the result comes from the heart and from the earth, intended to bring pleasure to the user.

Grenadier Pottery offers a unique opportunity to visit a working studio and view pottery making at all stages of creation, from wet clay to gallery setting. Visitors who stop by might find Ellen involved in any number of processes - perhaps throwing bowls on the potter's wheel, attaching handles to a teacup ot pressing leaves into a dinner plate.