10 Incredible Ceramics and Pottery Portfolio Examples for Inspiration

For artists working with ceramics, it can be challenging to showcase the texture and detail of tactile works online. But with strong documentation and a well-designed portfolio website, you can reach far beyond your studio and introduce your work to a global audience. Your online ceramics portfolio also lets you see your creations as a cohesive collection, and preserves a record of pieces that have already found new homes.

To inspire you as you build a portfolio for your original work, we’ve curated a selection of some of the most compelling websites created by ceramics artists. Whether they maintain a full-time studio practice in pottery, or use ceramics as part of a multidisciplinary art career, these makers are producing beautiful three-dimensional work. Their websites are an inspiration to artists working in any medium—but especially to those looking for ideas on how to present sculpture or other three-dimensional objects online.

Anni Mertens

Using Format Template: Meander

Anni Mertens is an artist from Luxembourg. Understanding the need for context when dealing with objects, Mertens mixes clean, isolated shots of individual sculptures with excellent installation photography. This combination conveys scale and the dynamic relationship between objects. Her site design situates images close enough to create connection, but with enough space for each piece to establish itself as a distinct work.

Her playful use of colour overlay in Format’s Meander template creates impact while isolating projects, their titles then displayed prominently in an eye-catching use of text and image. It’s a perfect example of artwork and site design working in harmony.

Right On Design

Using Format Template: Kiln

Created by artist, designer, and developer Laura DeGroot, Right On Design ceramics are colorful, organic and playful. Based in Quebec, where nature is abundant, she draws inspiration from the elements. DeGroot showcases her ceramics using Kiln, a template she designed herself in collaboration with Format. Read the story behind it.

Her funky, asymmetrical, hand-shaped pieces are painted with vibrant, saturated colors and speckled glazes in bold patterns. They feel endlessly usable—ceramics that bring real pleasure to everyday acts like drinking coffee or taking fruit from a bowl. The larger, high resolution images do justice to the texture of the objects, and the fun, slightly 3-dimensional effect on the images support the cohesive aesthetic of her work.

Rhian Malin

Using Format Template: Grace

Based in Warwickshire, England, award-winning potter Rhian Malin takes inspiration for her craft from her grandmother’s collection of Willow Pattern china. Drawing from historic patterns and styles, Malin’s porcelain vases, jars, and lamp bases bring a traditional feel to contemporary forms, with the artist primarily working with bold pigments in cobalt blue, gold and black.

Using Format’s Grace template, her site is elegantly designed with an aesthetic that perfectly supports her works’ style, and draws attention with large singular images, and scrolling galleries with item details.

Inga Girčytė

Using Format Template: Sharp

Lithuanian multidisciplinary artist Inga Girčytė treats the surface of ceramic stoneware as a canvas. Her work—small-scale, often irregularly shaped—is heavily painted with bold color blocks and raw, expressive line work, creating compelling, tactile abstractions.

Girčytė uses her Format portfolio to beautifully present her diverse creative output. Employing the clean, grid-based layout of the Sharp template, she segments her work clearly with left-aligned navigation into distinct galleries for Ceramics, Painting and Works on Site.

By including a direct link for Classes, Girčytė efficiently communicates her skills as an educator, using her professional art site not only to showcase her artwork, but to actively support her career and practice of making. The dynamic vertical scroll and consistent use of a bright, minimal background allow the intense colours and expressive textures of her painted clay to create beautiful harmony between works.

Hayley Cranberry

Using Format Template: Kiln

New York City-based ceramicist and cartographer Hayley Cranberry bridges the gap between the emotional and the analytical. With a background in urban planning and GIS, she creates functional sculptures that explore the vulnerability of the body and the experience of chronic illness. Her vessels are characterized by intense, organic textures and raw surfaces, while her research project delves into the origins of the materials themselves.

Using the Kiln template, she adopts a stark, laboratory-white aesthetic that is softened by her hand-drawn, electric blue logo. The navigation is deceptively simple, giving equal weight to her Ceramics and Research, a move that validates the academic rigor behind her process. By utilizing large imagery, she lets the textures of her work dominate the screen, ensuring the digital experience expresses the gritty tactility of the physical object.

Damon Lundy

Using Format Template: Gloss

Artist and educator Damon Lundy treats the ceramic surface as a page torn from a sketchbook. The New York-based Lundy balances his studio practice with teaching at the High School of Art and Design, and his work—recently featured in MoMA’s The Art of the Educator—often serves as a graphic reflection on identity and the urban environment. His speckled stoneware plates and vessels are illustrated with recurring motifs of pigeons, anthropomorphic vegetables, and expressive, cartoon-like faces that evoke the energy and aesthetic of graffiti found in the city.

Given how central illustration is to his practice, it makes sense that Lundy chose the Gloss template and its scrolling content design to let his work unfold like a story.

Stephanie Basralian

Using Format Template: Horizon

Washington, DC-based artist Stephanie Basralian introduces her work with the descriptive phrase “Handbuilt Sculpture & Tableware” right in her header to communicate that her work is meant for use, opening the door for visitors to purchase her pieces. Basralian came to ceramics after a successful career as a prop stylist, working for magazines such as InStyle and Real Simple. 

She now focuses on creating clay sculptures inspired by the natural world. The organic textures and colors of her work are drawn from the natural world. The choice of Format’s Horizon template allows viewers to see how pieces look together, making it easy to imagine entire table arrangements.

Carl Anderson

Using Format Template: Gloss

Sculptor Carl Anderson processes a life-threatening encounter with violence through the medium of clay. His sculptures—reimagined medieval armor, animal traps, and menacing vessels—embody the tension between the aesthetics of toxic masculinity and the inherent fragility of the ceramic medium.

Anderson’s portfolio, using the Gloss template amplifies this sense of unease and authority. Anchored by a bold, blackletter logo that immediately establishes the work’s posture, the site uses a side-aligned navigation to allow for an uninterrupted visual flow. High-resolution documentation of pieces like Spoon Warmer I—with its concealed knife and grimacing face—confront the viewer directly, while the stark, clean layout mimics the gallery setting for this exhibiting artist.

Tanvi Kant

Using Format Template: Peak

UK-based interdisciplinary artist Tanvi Kant translates the repetitive gestures of textile work—wrapping, coiling, knotting—into the medium of ceramics. Her series, Signs dissolving into hands, features curvilinear, unglazed stoneware shapes arranged in loose grids, resembling the remnants of a fading language. These pieces are movable and re-assemblable, and their arrangement in Kant’s portfolio reflect this interchangeable nature while emphasizing visual balance.

Kant’s portfolio, built on the Peak template, is grounded by sticky left-hand navigation, allowing the center of the screen to alternate between rich conceptual texts and stark, high-key installation photography. This clean, distraction-free environment is essential for her work, allowing the subtle textures of the reclaimed stoneware and the shadows of the coiled forms to dissolve into the white space of the screen.

Aysha Peltz

Using Format Template: Peak

Located in Vermont, Aysha Peltz is a potter and an educator. She’s shown her work in institutions across the United States over the past twenty years, and her pieces are in the collections of museums such as the American Museum of Ceramic Art. 

Thoughtfully designed for an audience of both clients and institutions, her serene website, using Format’s Peak template offers ample background on her professional work, teaching philosophy and provides a detailed CV.

Action Checklist for 3D Artists Building a Portfolio

Before you launch your portfolio, make sure you:

1. Document Your Work Properly

• Photograph pieces from multiple angles to capture texture, volume, and detail.
• Use consistent lighting and a neutral backdrop while documenting your work so the form and surface treatment stand out.
• Include at least one scale reference (hand, object, or in-situ installation shot) so viewers understand the size.

2. Choose a Template that Highlights Texture and Form

• Pick a Format template that supports large, high‑resolution images and clean backgrounds (for example, Kiln, Meander, or Gloss).
• Use layouts that allow close‑up images alongside full views so visitors can appreciate surface detail and craftsmanship.
• Avoid cluttered typography or busy backgrounds that compete with your ceramics or 3D work.

3. Set Up Your Format Store to Sell or Take Inquiries

• Open a Format Store to sell originals, limited editions, or small runs directly from your site–commission-free
• Add clear product pages with dimensions, materials, care instructions, and pricing.
• Enable contact or commission forms so curators, collectors, and clients can easily reach you about custom work.