Heather Waugh Pitts

Heather Waugh Pitts is a Nova Scotia-based artist who designs, sculpts, and creates one-of-a-kind tableware, primarily from porcelain clay. Her work is inspired by nature, surfaces and textures, street art, and the industrial landscape she remembers from childhood. Her work has been featured in the Globe and Mail's Design section in 2023, and the Maritime Edit as well as the Curated Magazine. Her work is represented by galleries in Toronto, Halifax and Fredericton.

ARTIST STATEMENT - 

I was born on the East Coast of Nova Scotia, growing up surrounded by the industrial landscape of refinery fields, the sea, forests, my family’s extraordinary gardens... which have all influenced my making.

As a Science graduate of Human Ecology, I studied the transdisciplinary relationships between humans and their natural, social and built environments.

Having various experiences in different artistic disciplines, such as principal owner / designer of a successful design company, muralist company, fresco work, Venetian plaster work, columnist, gardener, painter and self taught ceramicist ... my process creates a dialogue between the clay I hand build by hand and my lived experiences.

Raw and authentic.

Heather Waugh Pitts