Commissions
Commission A Piece
Some pieces are made for a particular person, a particular room, or a particular idea that will not leave you alone. The studio welcomes commissions and treats them the way it treats every piece: built by hand in low-fired earthenware, finished in modern and vintage glazes, and carried forward under one working word, Shouganai. You bring the direction. The studio brings the unexpected. The fire brings whatever it brings.
Pieces Built To Order
The studio’s language runs to garden creatures and birds, vessels and platters, eyes and houses, the folk-figurative shapes that fill the Works page. A commission starts from that vocabulary and bends it toward you: a garden animal for a specific corner of the patio, a vessel scaled to a shelf you already love, a wall piece for a wall that has been waiting. If you have seen a Locosan piece and wished for a cousin of it, that is a commission. There won’t be another quite like the result.
How A Commission Works
It begins with a conversation. You describe the piece, the place it will live, and the feeling you are after, and the studio talks you through what hand-building and modern or vintage glaze can promise. From there the work moves the way all the work moves: raised by hand from coils or slabs, glazed, and given to low fire, which decides the last of it. You will know the direction before anything is built, and the studio will tell you plainly if an idea is better served a different way.
Lead Time And Pricing
Hand-built work takes the time it takes, and a vintage glaze cannot be hurried, so timelines are set piece by piece and shared before you commit. Pricing is quoted for the specific commission and agreed before any work begins. The studio replies to commission notes within a day or two, with the next steps and an honest read on what is possible.
Prefer to see finished work first? The Works page shows the studio’s range, and pieces are held in person at Mockingbird Handprints in Olmos Park.