About

Witchware is a ceramics line produced by Chelsea Lipscomb, a ceramicist and maker living and working in Helena, MT. Chelsea is a Montana local and descendant of the Confederated Salish & Kootenai tribes on the Flathead reservation. She was raised in the Flathead Valley by her mother and father in a small unincorporated town where she was mostly left to herself and her own imagination. Her mother was a musician and music teacher who always taught her to follow her dreams. Her father worked for the tribal government as a wildlife biologist, then later as the head of Shoreline protection department. This all contributed to a childhood filled with animals, plants, a connection to nature, and a lot of alone time to imagine and blend the beautiful scenery with the stories in her head. Her ceramics are illustrated with a touch of these memories, folklore, whimsy, and pattern combined in multiple layers of surface decoration.