About Me

Marney McDiarmid is a ceramic artist who lives and works in Kingston, Ontario. For more than a decade, she has created one-of-a-kind, slab-built pieces that are known for their grace, their whimsy and their unusual beauty.

She uses found materials and photographs to build pieces that tell stories and flirt with practicality. The vessels are phenomenally light and often translucent, encouraging the people who hold them to slow down and find pleasure in the small details of everyday life.

Marney has a passionate commitment to social justice issues, in particular the issue of HIV/AIDS. When not in her pottery studio, she likes to cook, canoe-trip and run a youth group, almost always in the company of her dog Griffin. She is happy to live in a city where all the basic necessities of life are within walking distance.

After a lovely year of working out of Anglin Bay Pottery, Marney is now excited to be working out of her own studio, located in her backyard.