Meet the potter.
Hi! My name is Lindsey Harper, and Bush Pots is my long-awaited creation.
I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, where my journey with clay started from a very young age. As a child, instead of enrolling me in sports, my mother tended towards enrolling me in art classes at the community arts center near our home. Somewhere around age 7, I touched clay for the first time; and from there, I never looked back. Throughout my teenage years, I dabbled in clay and various art forms before attending Berea College, where I studied pottery as an apprentice for the college and purchased my beloved pottery wheel. Over the next few years, I made and fired pots in many different locations in Kentucky before moving to Blacksburg, Virginia in July 2019. I moved with pots - in various stages of creation - and continued making in my home and at a local studio before Covid hit and I once again found myself without a way to finish work. I spent 2020 in Floyd, Virginia, where I did a lot of farming… and no pot-making. In January 2021, I was invited to spend a few months making pots for some of my dearest friends, Turtle Farm Pottery, in the Red River Gorge, Kentucky. It was during this time that I began to fully learn what it would be like to have a pottery business. I spent three months beautifully immersed in clay before returning to Virginia, where it quickly occurred to me that I needed my own studio space to keep creating and feeling whole.
In October 2022, I bought my very first Skutt kiln, and in December moved to a home in Willis, Virginia, where I have been developing my very first, very own, very real, studio; and falling more in love with clay than ever before.
Meet the pots.
Bush Pots are thrown, sculpted, fired, glazed, and presented to you with the utmost care and attention. They are created to enhance your everyday experiences - from drinking a cup of coffee in the morning, to serving dinner at night - the pots I make are here to make your day a little better, a little more fun, a little more… whatever you need.
Each pot is wheel-thrown and/or hand sculpted by me with clays from Highwater Clays in Asheville, NC. I mix my own glazes and carry out each part of the making process myself. All Bush Pots are dishwasher and microwave safe.
MEet the inspiration.
The Bush.
The Bush is an RV I purchased and lived in for several months in 2022, that came to me adorned with fake ivy as a method of camouflage. It was my biggest purchase at the time - my home - where I became my most authentic self, fell in love, and began to make my biggest dreams a reality. I dream of someday turning the Bush into a mobile pottery gallery that I can use to travel to events.
