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Pottery Statement

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My middle-school art teacher, Haug, who was a potter, introduced me to the craft. From the moment I began working with clay, I experienced a new kind of joy and knew I had found a passion I could sustain for a lifetime.

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Ten years later, I became an apprentice under the potter Arne Bjørnstad. I threw cups and bowls, trimmed plates, and learned to reclaim clay, all while listening to stories from Arne’s time at the National College of Art and Design, where he had studied under the potter Jens von der Lippe.

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The following year, I joined the pottery program at Friundervisningen, studying under Jens Bindesbøll Schov and Elise Jahren. Later, I was accepted into the teacher-education program, training to become an arts and crafts teacher. During this period, I completed a short apprenticeship in the studio of Cecilie Morgenstierne.

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Today, I throw pottery in northern Løten, in the studio I inherited from the artist Reidun Tønnes. I work with high-fired clay, seeking aesthetic and functional quality, lines, forms, and expressions that convey quiet, intimate strength—even in small objects. My attention is directed toward the way the clay responds to touch, pressure, water, air, and fire.  It feels natural to dwell in this universe of refined, simple, yet powerful forms. To be absorbed in a concentrated process rooted in presence, where working with clay binds the present to the deep past.

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Gratitude for the work born of patience and long devotion.

For the work that carries history within it.

For craftmanship that transforms into tangible beauty.

To the simplicity and strength in one simple form.

Gratitude to work that offers the mind stillness

and the potter’s soul to rest by his wheel.

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