Chris McClelland

I studied at Art Center College of Design and majored in Industrial Environmental Design. Architecture was my first love, and that has been translated into clay, crafting houses, many lit with LED lights. I love a challenge and push the pottery limits to create designs that are difficult to fashion but produce rewarding results.

”Growing up my dad introduced me to Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs and I fell in love. Then I discovered Greene and Greene and William Morris, the Prairie movement, loving the Mission and Arts and Crafts style.”

I create textures by carving my own stamps from flexible rubber medium or make stamps with fired clay shapes and press them into my designs. My dad was an Industrial Arts teacher and a contractor. I was his avid student so I learned how to use any tool from a compound miter saw to an arc welder. I have designed several homes and was the contractor for the Craftsman style home my hubby and I now live in. Many say our house reminds them of Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood. I usually respond with a grin and say, “That’s what I was going for!”

My work has been featured at Red Trillium Gallery in Troutdale, Oregon, Timberline Lodge gift store and at White Bird Gallery in Cannon Beach, Oregon. My work has been seen at: Ceramic Showcase and the Gathering of the Guilds at the Oregon Convention Center, Oregon City Festival of the Arts, Gresham Art Festival, Fall Festival of the Arts, in Troutdale, Oregon, Harvest Moon Bazaar in Boring, Oregon, Sandy Historical Society, Sandy, Oregon, Umpqua Valley Arts Festival, Salem Holiday Market, Bend Summer Festival and The Clayhouse Potters open studio, Boring, Oregon and more recently at Paradise Acres Garden Center in Damascus. My work has also been displayed at the Justice Center building in downtown Portland. Recently my work has been available on ETSY as well.

Not only a potter, my husband and I raise hypoallergenic Siberian cats. We are part of a consortium of breeders under the registered Lundberg Siberians Cattery, providing kittens for homes for highly allergic families. We have been working with Tom and Meredith Lundberg for almost 20 years.

Bryan McClelland

I got started in pottery in 2017 after seeing the potter’s wheel my wife insisted on getting sitting idle for a number of years. I decided to give it a “spin”. Viewing YouTube videos I taught myself to throw watching potters such as Simon Leach, Jon the Potter, and Jessica Putnam-Phillips. My mugs have been extremely popular and I’ve begun doing custom orders for businesses and organizations. During the COVID quarantine period I began experimenting with hand painted watercolor-style designs on my pieces with amazing results.

I received a B.A. in Graphic Design from San Jose State University. My career has been in graphic design and printing. I began and managed Cornerstone Graphics, Inc. in Clackamas, Oregon from 1982 to 2008. I continue in the trade doing print brokering as Express Envelopes and work part-time at InterAct Ministries in Boring, Oregon. I also maintain a t-shirt and clothing print-on-demand store at RedBubble.com.

My work has sold at Made In Oregon stores in Portland, Beaverton, Salem and Eugene. It is also available at White Bird Gallery in Cannon Beach, Oregon, Sandy Historical Society and more recently at Paradise Acres Garden Center. My pottery has been sold at numerous venues such as Gresham Arts Festival, Oregon City Festival of the Arts, Umpqua Valley Arts Festival, Oregon Potter’s Association Showcase at the Oregon Convention Center, Timberline Lodge, Salem Holiday Market, Bend Summer Festival, and the popular Harvest Moon Bazaar in Boring, Oregon. A growing number of pieces have been sold on ETSY as well.