Hi, I’m Christy Pinkney,

A ceramicist and pottery teacher, blending clay with mum-life, productive gardening, and a love for getting into the wild…camping, hiking and lying under trees looking up.

Maker-me loves to blend production - for maker-markets and shops, along with fine art explorations (an afternoon carving into leather hard clay is my idea of heaven), and a hearty offering of workshops and classes where I delight in a buzzing studio.  

My creative journey has been meandering and wonder-led, with consistent “through lines” pegged alongside things in nature that express renewal and resilience, such as seedlings pushing through cracks, and vigorous new growth after a bushfire. Shaped by a barefoot childhood on my family’s farm on Eyre Peninsula, SA, my yardstick for living well is being able to slow down long enough to really notice and wonder. Perhaps at the way a leaf or branch curls in a peculiar way, or how a vibrant streak of orange in a plant’s stem looks electric after rain. How can so much unfurl from a tiny sprouting seed? To distil that persistent lifeforce, that sense of hope and optimism, the beauty for its own sake. This makes for a thrilling life’s mission!