Red Maple Designs: Erin Stewart

Erin Stewart has spent her life in one form of artistic expression or another: from poetry, to music, to painting, but she found ceramics while pursuing her undergraduate degree in English at Keene State, and has stayed in love with the medium ever since. She has been able to combine a whimsical fluidity in her thrown pots with extraordinarily detailed painted surfaces. She began selling her painted pottery pieces as Red Maple Designs in local cafes and online in 2012. She taught a pottery course for Keene State College’s Continuing Education in 2017.

Today she lives in Vermont with her partner, Will Finkel, where they tend to a homestead in the Green Mountains. She takes great joy in drawing and painting the fields, forests and wildlife that surround their home, and making salves from the medicinal plants and flowers that grow on the hillside nearby.

She is grateful for the inspiration she gets everyday from her backyard, her art is always influenced by her interactions with nature. Today, she continues to sell her pieces by custom order.