Amy Thurber
Doves Foot Pottery
Amy Thurber has a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. While studying illustration she dabbled in ceramics and graphic design. She spent the first 25 years illustrating and designing promotional materials for local farmers, and small businesses through her freelance business Cricket Works. Wishing to return to creative art, she began studying ceramics with Carol Nadeau. After apprenticing with Carol for 7 years, she began her own business, Doves Foot Pottery. Since then, she has been producing one of a kind functional pottery using leaves she grows in her extensive gardens. Amy is inspired by the natural world, and incorporates, colorful beetles, snails and other critters into her designs. In 2019 she returned to 2-D design with the publication of her husband, Frederick Thurber’s book, In the Wake of the Willows, which she illustrated and designed. In 2022 she completed her first book, What DO You Eat?, a cookbook about sourcing and cooking pure, local foods for people with multiple allergies. The photos in the cookbook feature her pottery and gardens.
Amy served as the Education Chair for South Coast Artists for two terms, and has served on the boards of the Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust, and Garden Club of Buzzards Bay. She is one of the founders of the Local Artisan Show Coop, and has exhibited throughout New England. Her work is in personal collections around the globe.
dovesfoot@yahoo.com
774-301-6845
219 Horseneck Road
South Dartmouth, MA 02748
Autumn Clematis Plate, 10", porcelain
Japanese Maple Wrap Vase, 8", stoneware
Chrysanthamum Set, 6", porcelain
Ladybugs & Salvia Vase, 9", stoneware
Viburnum Edged Bowl, 11", porcelain