Miranda Thomas Biography
Miranda Thomas was born in Palisades, New York, to English parents on February 6, 1959. Since that time, she has traveled and lived in many diverse parts of the world, including Australia, Italy, and England. She was introduced to pottery by her art teacher, Ross McBride, in Australia, at the age of 
16. It immediately became her passion and she has spent her time since then expressing her love for life through her pots, expanding and increasing that skill through many experiences and teachers. In 1977, after spending 3 years studying for her degree in Ceramics at the West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham, England, she met the famous pioneer of modern craft pottery, Michael Cardew. It was while working for a year with Michael, in the heart of Cornwall, that she honed her skills as a thrower and formed in her mind a lifestyle in which to make pots, drawing inspiration form the English countryside. She then spent another two years working with world-renowned English luster glaze decorator, Alan Caiger-Smith. She moved back to New England in 1983, where she set 
up and designed a line of pottery for well-known glassblower, Simon Pearce, before finally creating her own workshop in 1988.
Apart for her strong skills as a thrower, Miranda has an extremely in-depth and broad range of knowledge of many different decorative techniques, involving brush work, slop carving, and glazes, which she uses to create these pots. The pots are designed from simple everyday uses, but she uses them as a medium to convey a broad range of ideas and feelings about her life. It is this inspired mixture that makes these pots unusual, and the reason why so many people, from so many walks of life, want to have them in their homes.
Miranda Thomas works with several assistants in her studio in the center of Bridgewater, Vermont, and is married to furniture maker Charles Shackleton.
