Hayne Bayless
www.sidewaysstudio.com
Hayne Bayless is a studio potter in Ivoryton, CT. After managing to avoid art in college, he got a degree in journalism, and after ten years at a perfectly good newspaper job he quit to make pots. He has won top awards at the Smithsonian Craft Show and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show.
“love what spawns in the friction between what I’d like the material to do and what it would rather do. The unintended result is often misread as a mistake, but it’s one of the most fertile sources of new ideas. The trick is not to fool with clay’s desire to offer – or impose – its own ideas about how to work and what to make.”
