My name is Jim Irvine and I’ve been making pottery for many years, doing the local craft festivals. In 2016 I opened Creative Hands Gallery on Cape Cod. Unfortunately, it had to close at the end of 2023.
I have spent the time since working on new concepts. I’ve recently retired from my day job which supported my pottery and gallery, and I have been concentrating on my making. My work is coil built of Stoneware clay. The coils are rolled out by hand which allows slight variations in the sizes and shapes of the individual elements.
My work is a combination of pinched coils and exposed coils. The work is accented with terra sigilatta, underglaze, and glazes, however, a significant portion of the pottery is allowed to remain the natural color of the clay.
After growing up in Lincoln, Rhode Island, and attending artschool in Providence, I moved to Cape Cod and settled in Mashpee.
My work is influenced by my life on Cape Cod. Being an avid hiker, I gain inspiration from the Cape Cod landscape, its wilderness, ocean, rivers, ponds, salt marshes and sea life. The coils are designed into forms which elicit a sensation of one, if not all, of these natural resources.
