Heather Waugh Pitts is a ceramicist who hails from where Nova Scotia’s seacoast meets the industrial refinery lands her family worked at for generations. The clay she hand-builds tells her story; raw, authentic, and fired to fine porcelain.

Photo of a dark stratified rock shore near the opening of Halifax Harbour.

The surface landscape of tank fields, gravel pits, swamps, forests, the Atlantic Ocean, and her family’s extraordinary gardens have informed her creations.

After graduating with a BSC in Human Ecology, she studied interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary relationships between humans and their natural, social, and built environments.

While raising her family, she became the principal owner and designer of a successful interior design company, a mural and fresco company, working on cathedrals, resorts,  restaurants, clinics, residential projects, designer showcases, and a design column, having her work published.

A community pottery studio is where she began to hand-build clay, creating her own ceramics studio in 2020.

Photo of dining table sporting an army of dark spikey-footed bowls.