Stephen W. Mitchell Pottery

Steve is from Western Virginia, his studio is in the Blue Ridge Mountians.  He began a Stained Glass Studio in the old Roanoke Downtown Market in 1980, ‘Studio 103’ where he made stained glass windows for residential and commercial applications. He moved to Richmond to manage a claims operation for a large Insurance Company and stayed there till 1997 then moved back to the Blue Ridge Mountains.  Steve worked on his ceramic art as a hobby until the spring of 2007 when he took early retirement and focused on pottery full-time. Since then his work has been shown in Museums and Galleries in North Carolina and Virginia where his work has won several awards including ‘Best Raku Form’ at the Mid-Atlantic Clay Conference in 2007.