The Perfect Addition to Your Collection
Functional Pottery & Ceramic Art Featuring Intricate Designs & Mesmerizing Patterns, Handmade by Mike Mahon.
Made For Daily Rituals
There’s an unreplaceable feeling of using something well made. A favorite mug. A piece you reach for again and again. Mike’s work lives in those moments, where fine art ceramics meet everyday use and familiar routines become something a little more enjoyable.
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Not Just Pottery
The best thing about handmade pottery isn’t the piece itself, it’s how it shows up in everyday life. The first quiet minutes of the day. The objects you reach for without thinking. These pieces are shaped with those moments in mind so they feel just right in use. That is the result of time, repetition, and lots of making.
Muddy Mike has been a potter since 2013 and in that time he has made thousands of pieces and attended dozens of shows, markets, and festivals across the Carolinas.
Signature Styles & Techniques
Each piece is the result of dozens of skills mastered over many years of making. While no two pieces are exactly the same, they're connected through layered surface treatments, patterns, and use of vibrant color.
WOOD & SODA FIRED POTTERY
Wood & soda fired pieces are characterized by warm, earthy tones, glassy surfaces similar in feeling to slightly coarse stone.
The unique textured surface is developed by the interaction of wood ash and sodium vapors at temperatures exceeding 2300 degrees Fahrenheit.
By combining wood & soda firing, which are typically performed separately, I'm able to produce a nice blend of qualities from both techniques.
SLIP DECORATION
Slip trailing is the process of using watered down clay pipe onto the clay, similarly to decorating a cake. Once fired, the slip fuses to the piece, helping to create an interactive surface for the glaze. Taking the piece from a flat surface, to demensional and full of intrigue.
CARVING
Carving is exactly as it sounds, using sharp tools, clay is removed from the surface before completely drying, to create patterns in the negative space. This process is the opposite of slip trailing which adds material, however, for many pieces, I employ both methods to create a surface with even more depth.
SCULPTING
Using clay, I like to sculpt eyes, lips, and other facial features into some of my pieces to give them a sort of lively, human appearance. To complete the look, often times using slip trailing and carving as well.
MANDALA DESIGNS
Mandala designs are beautiful and symbolic, representing completeness and balance. Creating the mandala on my pottery is also a slow and meditative process for me.
LAYERED GLAZES
I often use multiple glaze colors on a single piece. As the glazes melt and interact in the kiln firing, they interact to create unique effects and colors that are sometimes impossible to recreate.
Upcoming Markets
Drop by and say hello!
April 11, 2026
2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Art Hop
Muddy Mike Live Demo
Box Car Apartments, 1097 Union St, Spartanburg, SC 29302
Don't Miss The Next Market
My Journey As A Potter
I started working with clay my senior year of High School in 2013. Shortly after, the universe gifted me a pottery wheel, I bought an old kiln off craigslist - and the magic began to flow.
Today, most of my work begins on the pottery wheel and is then altered, sculpted, carved, decorated, etc. I enjoy working symmetry and geometry into my art, complimented by psychedelic grooves and flowing lines.
