stoneware

For decades, this force of nature has made a daily ritual of manipulating earth, water and fire to create perfectly imperfect stoneware dishes, bowls, teacups and vases as well as animal and cartoon character figurines.

Five feet tall, the cobalt blue stoneware figure of a lifesize headless women in a voluminous, bell-shaped skirt shows her cupping aggressive, bullet-like breasts in her hands.

But Stephen Procter’s large stoneware garden vessels, some as tall as 5 feet and incorporating 250 pounds of clay, are nevertheless functional pottery — even without the soil and the plants.

People loved Chernoff’s minimal stoneware dinner plates, salad plates, cups and bowls and purchased large orders without knowing she was working out of her living room.

“I love a nice linen tablecloth, earth toned florals, stoneware dishes, candles, brushed gold utensils and a few vintage décor pieces,” she says.