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Source and Tradition

Ceramic artist specializing in bespoke dinnerware collections for Jean-Georges restaurants, The Four Seasons, The Shinmonzen + Bay Head, NJ

Ceramic Artist / Working Studio + Gallery / Handcrafted fine porcelain dinnerware, tabletop, + art 524 Lake Ave.

03/04/2026

For ten years you could walk into my studio with the garage door wide open and watch everything happen in real time. Slabs of clay being rolled, bowls being shaped, glazes being testing, kilns opening while pieces were still warm. I built sales by placing the work directly into your hands.

This year I’ve been thinking carefully about how my process lives beyond the studio walls. The door isn’t open in the same way anymore but the intention behind my work is becoming sharper than ever.

I love this behind the scenes video of the flaked sea salt falling across the porcelain because it mirrors what’s actually happening inside the glaze. Glass minerals shifting and blooming under heat, crystal responding to crystal, the quiet chemistry that creates depth beneath a surface that appears effortless. That invisible discipline has always been my favorite part. It’s where precision meets instinct and where something simple becomes something unmistakable.

What you see is salt falling but what you feel is motion and the trace of a body moving through the material. It’s evidence that something living shaped it. Human creativity is not static. It carries energy from the maker into the object. This year I want that energy to be more visible, not just in the finished porcelain, but in sharing the movement that brings it to life.

Fresh inventory is heading to .archdale in Charleston and in Bay Head and Spring Lake and pieces are finally available on my website now! After a season of delayed kiln hookups, ice storms, injury, frozen pipes and all the unglamorous realities of rebuilding properly, it feels good to say the shelves are filling again and the next collection is already underway!

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02/24/2026

Kips Bay Show House Palm Beach is featuring a stunning interior by “Where Plans Get Cancelled” and I am honored she chose to include my Porcelain Show Plates!

Some objects are designed to live in one place. These live in two! Installed on the walls at Kips Bay as art and used on the tables at Jean-Georges Restaurant in New York.

Functional art formed in thin porcelain, each piece is finished with a hand-applied gold rim. The pink glaze blooms naturally in the kiln and no two are identical.

I have always strived to create work that lives between categories, where the wall becomes intimate and the table becomes a gallery.

A limited number are available through my website and in our Charleston shop. Handmade in my coastal New Jersey studio.

01/20/2026

My porcelain has a new home in Charleston!

· Opening January 24
49 Archdale Street · Charleston, SC

A collaborative retail space featuring
Source & Tradition · Noon Designs · Charlie Bloom Art

Charleston wasn’t on my radar until my daughter Hannah made a life here. Spending time in the city with her and with her friends who now feel like family has been one of the most grounding, joyful parts of the past two years.

On January 24th Source & Tradition opens at 49 Archdale Street in a shared, collaborative retail space alongside my sister + of and painter .art

We are three independent creative practices working side by side, each with our own voice, process, and body of work. We are coming together to create a welcoming, lived-in space filled with art and artful objects for the home.

This is a new rhythm for me. My ceramic practice remains studio-based in coastal New Jersey, where every piece is still made by hand. The Charleston shop is a place to share finished work, connect in person, and allow the objects to live fully in the world.

We’re looking forward to opening the doors and welcoming you in! Follow along

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01/15/2026

These pink plates have been part of my work since 2019 and remain one of my most requested pieces. They are also among the most expensive to create.

Unlike my rustic blue and white collection which is grounded, durable, and designed for everyday use, the pink and white show plates belong to my refined collection.

They rely on specialty opalescent glass frits, applied in very light, airy layers, and are finished with hand-applied 22k gold rims.

The frit used in these plates is now priced by weight and subject to market fluctuation and the dishes will be too.
The gold is real liquid 22k gold and the process involves multiple firings, increased risk of loss, and a level of precision that leaves no room for error.

The final result is intentionally quiet and restrained. What looks simple is actually very exacting.

These plateware collections serve different purposes, carry different risks, and reflect very different material realities.

In 2026 I hope to be more transparent about how my work is made, what it requires, and why pricing reflects those choices.

If you love the look but need flexibility I’m open to exploring lighter pink applications or alternative finishes that preserve the spirit of the plate while offering more range on cost. Conversation is welcome!

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01/05/2026

This year I’m returning to the source. I majored in furniture design and minored in cultural anthropology. I made pottery before, during, and after.

Senior year, I began working for my professor, Ric Allison, in his South Philadelphia woodshop, building the most exquisite and technically complicated chairs and dining table you could imagine. The amount of time, both in thought and labor, would blow your mind. It blew mine. He is one of the mentors who shaped my design process, physically, mentally and ethically.

To decompress I worked in clay at home. I made extremely rough pinch pots, dinnerware and vases, always with exposed raw clay on the outside and glossy interiors. I wanted that contrast to provoke the person who picked it up to wonder where it came from and what it was made of.

At the time, there was no visual peek into an artist’s process unless you visited their studio, studied under them, or encountered their work in print.

I didn’t know it then, but that contrast of tactile rawness and refinement became the language I’ve been speaking ever since, shaped by a work ethic and anthropological lens.

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01/01/2026

Cheers to 2026 🥂
Here we go!!!

12/31/2025

After a full decade, I have officially moved my kilns and equipment out of my Bay Head studio!

This space and this town gave me far more than a place to work. Bay Head gave me community, connection, and deep lifelong friendships. Looking back over a decade of photos, 2016–2020 were wild, creative, and free! 2021–2022 held some of my most cherished projects. 2023 tested me deeply, and 2025 threw every curveball imaginable. Every chapter shaped me, strengthened me, and clarified exactly what I want moving forward.

Thank you to the friends that stopped by just to say hello, neighbors who checked in during very late nights and long firings, collectors, chefs, and clients who trusted my hands and my vision for their table, studio assistants who showed up with patience, humor, strength, and heart.

And most importantly, thank you to my family and husband, who lived alongside the dust, the deadlines, the risk, and the joy of making.

Thank you all!!!

This chapter is closing not because something was wrong but because time is precious and life is shifting. My children are growing, my creative work is evolving, and I am choosing a season that allows more freedom, focus, and courage as we begin our next chapter between New Jersey and Charleston.

Over the next few months I will be building a private creative space and giving myself the gift of time. Time to create, to explore, and to find the right commercial home when it truly fits.

If there’s one thing this decade has taught me it’s that pursuing your dreams requires perseverance, faith, and a circle of people who believe alongside you! No one succeeds entirely alone. To everyone who supported me and this studio in big and small ways thank you! This decade was built on community, trust, and shared creativity.

Here’s to 11 years and to new beginnings!

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Bay Head, NJ

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http://sourceandtradition.com/

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