At J Wells Studio, the work begins in clay and ends in fire — and what happens between is largely a matter of attention. Each vessel is thrown and fired by hand, one practice moving across many materials: clay, paint, steel, and line. Nothing here is trying to be perfect. A piece keeps the record of the hand that made it — the pull of the wheel, the give of the glaze, the small asymmetries that come from working with a living material rather than against it. What you find on these pages is a body of work made slowly, in Uxbridge, Ontario, by someone still learning what the material has to say.

Gerry works in two registers that tend to be kept apart: the studio and the business of things. The studio came through OCAD University (BFA, with distinction) and York University (MFA); the other side through decades of running operations and, more recently, an Executive MBA in Global Leadership from the University of Fredericton. He's less interested in the contrast between those worlds than in what they share — both reward the same discipline of getting the structure right before reaching for the finish. Clay taught it one way, a balance sheet another. The work, wherever it happens, starts from the same place: pay attention to the material, and let the form follow from what it can actually do.