ABOUT HAYNE BAYLESS



	Hayne Bayless at work in his Ivoryton studio Photo: Mara Lavitt

The unintended result, often misread as a mistake and so dismissed, is one of the most fertile sources of new ideas. The trick is not to fool with clay's inherent desire to be expressive.

Pay attention to the clay, not only for the sake of each piece, but because the clay will offer - or impose - its own suggestions of new forms and ways to work.

My pots are not so much about harmony, although that does happen, but more about tension. I love what spawns in the friction between what I want the material to do and what it would rather do.

— Hayne Bayless

CAREER

Established Sideways Studio, Ivoryton, CT, 1990

Member of Board of Directors, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT, 1992 to present

Graduated University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
B.A. journalism, 1983

Member of Pottery Northwest cooperative, Seattle, 1971

Student of potter Itaka Sokkuzan and sumi painter Ryoichi Saito, Tokyo, 1970

Co-founded pottery program at Fairhaven College, Bellingham, WA, 1970-'71

Co-founded pottery program at Lakeside School,
Seattle, 1968-'70

GALLERIES

The Blue Heron, Deer Isle, ME

The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

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