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Michael and Michele Gwinup established Blue Spruce Pottery in 1976. It is a family owned and operated business ran with the help of the Gwinup’s daughter Melissa, and her husband Patrick Woodman. Their pottery studio is located in Bend, Oregon, between the Cascade Mountains and the High Desert of Central Oregon. This beautiful landscape inspires much of the imagery, forms and textures that are used to make their Stoneware Pottery. The Gwinup/Woodman family works together to create a variety of unique handmade pottery for functional and decorative use.

Blue Spruce Pottery is beautiful handmade stoneware for baking, cooking, serving and beautifiying your home. All of the pottery is made one at a time on a potters wheel and is lead free, ovenproof, microwave and dishwasher safe.

At Clay Coyote Gallery, we carry Blue Spruce’s Mountain Desert Glaze as well as the wonderful Red and Obsidian.

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Alice Seely of New Mexico is the artist behind Urban Fetishes. She is a versatile artist and botanist. A painter turned jeweler, she casts her designs in pewter, assembling them into her wonderful bracelets and pins. Pewter is lovely for its satiny surface, lighter weight relative to size, and non-tarnishing. You are getting a truly unique piece of jewelry when buying one of Alice’s pieces, one of our favorite jewelers at Clay Coyote.

Born and raised in Seattle, Marc Matsui first became interested in ceramics at the early age of 15. He is best known for his simplistic, delicate hand thrown pieces. His use of glazing techniques transforms clay into a canvas suitable for setting off intense colors. The application of brilliant colors often makes his pieces look more like glass than ceramic. 

In his endeavor to stimulate visual excitement Marc integrates color and abstract design on simple, yet elegant forms. Everyone will see something different in a piece, and Marc’s goal is to create a contemporary look that is suitable and affordable for any home.

All of Marc’s bowls and plates are finely crafted from high fired porcelain. Each beautiful creation may be displayed on a table or hung on the wall.  A vinyl wrapped hanging loop is attached to the back of each piece.

Stacy Krantz and Jenifer Nicodemus are the artists behind InBloom Jewelry.  Their hope is that their pieces reflect beauty in all its forms and help the wearer, as well as appreciative observers, to remember beauty everywhere.

Hannah comes by her creativity with wood through her father, Jonathon the artist behind “Jonathon’s Spoons”.  Hannah’s motto is “Bringing the earth back to your electronic world.”  She feels that her pieces allow a piece of natural art to integrate with your fast paced lifestyle.  At Clay Coyote, we carry Hannah’s  IPhone, IPad and IPod stands, switch plates with Iphone holder, as well as small vases and lovely tea light holders- all made out of solid cherry wood with beautiful designs carved into them.

Fish in the Garden are made by fifth generation Mainer, Tyson M. Weiss.  Working in the landscape/horticulcural  industry, Tyson saw a huge void between the cheap imported garden ornament and the other extreme- the custom sculpture that costs thousands of dollars.  This was the beginning of Fish in the Garden.  Tyson makes ceramic fish as well as brushed stainless steel.   Both types of fish can stay outside year round although, Tyson points out that many owners of his fish like to bring them in during the winter because they look nice inside the house, too.  Right now at Clay Coyote, we have fish outside that look like they are swimming through snow- we are convinced that the snow will melt soon to give everyone a good look at the fish.  We also have fish inside hanging on the wall and swimming along on the back table.