Hayne Bayless

Hayne Bayless makes hand-built stoneware pottery in Ivoryton, CT. Hayne managed to avoid any academic involvement with clay in college. In 1992, after 10 years at a perfectly good job at a newspaper, he quit to make pots. Since then, he has shown work at the American Craft Museum in New York and has been a regular exhibitor at the Smithsonian Craft Show and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show.

Hayne Bayless is a studio potter known for hand build pieces constructed using slabs and extrusions. He uses stencils, transfers, and slips to finish the surfaces of his mostly functional work.

In 1990 Bayless established Sideways Studio in Ivoryton, Connecticut. Other than lessons from a potter in Tokyo when he was 19 and later a handful of classes and workshops, he is a self-taught ceramist.

In addition to his studio work Bayless sits on the Boards of Studio Potter and Pots on Wheels.

Bayless received awards at the Smithsonian Craft Show in Washington, D.C. and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show.

SOURCE - https://sidewaysstudio.com/ (Aug, 2025) & https://www.themarksproject.org/marks/bayless (Aug, 2025)