Blue Hen Pottery, is the partnership of Adam Landman and Anne Pärtna.
Anne is a graduate of ECU (2007) and holds an MFA degree with concentration in Ceramics. She received her BFA degree from Estonian Academy of Art (2000), in her native Estonia where her family still resides on a farm on the Gulf of Finland. She threw her first pot on the hub of an overturned tricycle when she was nine years old while her younger brother spun the wheel. Anne prefers the volatile atmosphere of wood firing but also uses salt firing and simple glazes in gas to bring the surfaces of her wide range of forms to life. Delicate line-drawings on cups, plates and covered jars and handbuilt sculptural vessels are touched many times in multiple steps of forming, shaping, finishing, drawing and slip painting. Anne is the STARworks Garden Coordinator, and considers the garden space and teaching kids about sustainable agriculture a form of art in itself.
Adam is also a graduate of East Carolina University (2007) and holds a BFA degree, with concentration in Ceramics and a BS in Heavy Lifting. He works mostly in the low fire range with child like drawings in themes of monsters, storms and conflicts used as metaphors in narrative paintings on plates, platters and cups. He is the Project Manager at STARworks in Star NC where an abandoned hosiery mill is being transformed into a center for creative businesses. He has little time to work in clay, but still manages to make some work to satisfy his love/hate relationship with art. He’s happier than he looks.
Adam and Anne just bought a house in Seagrove NC where they are raising two of the most beautiful and strange children along with an adorable dog. They love to cook and eat together.
I am coming to Seagrove tomorrow [Tuesday, April 3]. Do you have a shop or do you have pots in a store somewhere?
Helen, We don’t have a shop yet – working on it – but you can find some of our work at the Co-Op of Seagrove Potters, which is downtown, across from the hardware store. We also have some work at the Seagrove Creations, which is one of the first galleries you’ll see coming into Seagrove off of HWY 220. Hopefully in a few months we’ll have a shop space set up at home!