Wardell Studios

Lorrie and Michael Wardell, also known as Wardell Pottery,  are happily creating handmade pottery and metal and enameled jewelry in the beautiful Hudson Valley.   We have marketed our work at numerous retail and wholesale craft shows in the United States, and are currently enjoying our beautiful village of Saugerties, New York.    We are available online as Wardell Studios, because we make a variety of handmade jewelry in addition to our beloved pottery. We currently do no sell online, but stay tuned! If you search for Wardell Pottery or Wardell Pottery and Metalwork the links should all bring you to the Wardell Studios site. Click on the “ABOUT” tab for info about purchasing our work at our booth in the Newberry Artisan Market on Main Street in Saugerties.

Welcome, welcome, welcome!  Wardell Pottery and Metalwork is the creation of Lorrie and Michael Wardell.  We have been known as Wardell Pottery and/or Wardell Studios, and we have set up all of your searches to lead you to wardellstudios.com, in an attempt to eliminate confusion.  We have been making handmade pottery and jewelry for about 35 years, for most of our married lives.  Our journey started in southern New Jersey, where we grew up.    In 2000 we moved to Saugerties, New York, a now booming small village in the Hudson Valley. 

Our ceramics journey started in 1988, and our eclectic backgrounds include science, education, biology, tech writing, and a variety of wonderful ceramic and jewelry workshops.  We love making spirit houses and fetish bowls to aid in creating meditation spaces and to reflect our own spiritual journeys.   Current passions include creating enameled, textured, and silkscreened jewelry.    

We moved our retail location in 2026 to booth #5 in the Newberry Artisan Market 236 Main Street in Saugerties. Saugerties is a wonderful village, with many restaurants, bookshops, a recently refurbished vintage movie theater, a chocolate shop, and much more.  This area is surrounded by beautiful waterways and mountains, a very popular venue for hikers and nature enthusiasts.

We are finally updating this website, thanks for your patience!  You may have seen our fountains, spirit houses, tiles, enameled jewelry and functional work at craft shows from Virginia to Vermont, or at wholesale markets and galleries across the country. 

We love to work together, and we have been fortunate enough to learn by attending workshops taught by fabulous ceramic artists including Cynthia Bringle, Nick Joerling, Lana Wilson, Marsha Owen, Paul Soldner, Mary Barringer, Peter Voulkos, Michael Lamarr, and Mikhail Zakin.  More recently we have been honored to learn copper enameling and jewelry techniques from Kathleen Wilcox, Kathryn Osgood, online with Jan Harrell and Barbara Minor, and from our local master jeweler Raychel Wengenroth.

We hope that you can find time to visit our shop, we have stopped doing craft shows and we are only doing wholesale for local businesses.  You can find our work at Krause’s Chocolates, Miss Lucy’s restaurant, and Bluestone Roasting Company, all in Saugerties. 

The website for the Newberry Artisan Market is https://newberryartisanmarket.com, and their phone number is 845-247-3002.

For more information, email us at Wardellstudios@gmail.com or text or call 845-633-2295.  Thanks for visiting our website!  Please sign up for our mailing list by clicking on the “MAILING LIST” tab at the top of this page.

March 3, 2026

We closed our Partition Street location and moved our retail space to Booth #5 at the Newberry Artisan Market. This is an exciting change for us. We needed more time to create, and the Market provides a space where visitors can experience the work of many artists, antique dealers, and much more.

We love to take workshops, and try to incorporate what we learn into our work. Our workshop schedule for this year includes enameling, surface decoration, throwing, and sculpture classes, many of which are taught at Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts in Maplecrest, NY.