A Note From the Studio
The Edit // 001
Making Space
Why Three Rings Are Leaving — And What That Means for the Studio
For the past ten years, I've been building.
Markets, events, collections, new ideas. Trying things. Seeing what landed. Putting work out into the world and learning from what came back. That decade taught me an enormous amount about making, about people, and about the work I'm most drawn to create.
But somewhere in the middle of all that building, I started to feel the weight of it.
The pressure to have enough. Enough pieces for a market table. Enough variety. Enough price points. Enough newness. I was producing more than I ever had, and yet the work that felt most like me, the pieces I made slowly, with real attention, kept getting crowded out by the pace of it all.
I wasn't making badly. But I wasn't making the way I wanted to.
Over the last year, I've been rethinking the studio.
Not in a dramatic way. More like a slow, honest conversation with myself about what I actually want this practice to become. What I want to make. How I want to spend my time at the bench.
The answer kept coming back to the same thing:
Less, but better.
Fewer pieces. More considered. Made with more care and more creative curiosity. Priced to reflect what they actually are: handmade, handcrafted, made one at a time by one person in a small studio in Squamish.
Rising material costs have made the old model genuinely unsustainable. But I'll be honest, that reality also gave me permission to move further in the direction I was already heading. To stop producing for volume and start creating with greater intention.
This isn't about starting over.
It's about refining.
A return to what drew me to this craft in the first place: the tactile, slow, endlessly fascinating work of making something by hand. Learning new techniques. Sitting with a piece until it becomes what it's meant to be.
Over the coming year, I'll be taking a thoughtful look at every collection in the studio.
Some pieces will stay exactly as they are.
Some will evolve.
Some will make way for what's next.
The first step in that process begins with three rings that have been part of my collection for many years. I'll share more about them over the coming weeks, and why it's time for them to move on.
The studio isn't going anywhere.
It's simply becoming more itself.
If you've been following this work for a while, thank you. You've been part of the building years. I hope you'll join me for what comes next.
— Amanda