Baker Artist Portfolios

Trained by friend and mentor Mary Nyburg, with periods of study at Penland and Haystack, Pat Halle has been a studio potter for over thirty years in Baltimore, making primarily functional porcelain pots. She is a member artist at Baltimore Clayworks and worked for 37 years at Disability Rights Maryland.  More recently her work in clay includes porcelain and white stoneware sculptural forms fired at low temperatures in sawdust, copper and salt: also drums, funerary ware, covered containers and wall pieces, whose surfaces are decorated by the smoke and flame.

Pat finds great inspiration in these remarks by Mary Nyburg about her own work: "My goal is to give enough of myself to my work so that something of the kind of person I am emerges when an innocent bystander studies the nuances of form and fire."