member directory
Megan Tarris
Co-founder, ceramic artist and occasional designer
After graduating from Emily Carr in 2007, Megan worked in communication design before finding love in a bucket of mud in 2017. She creates wheel-thrown porcelain tableware - fired in electric and wood kilns. Her work reframes familiar forms in a minimal way, with warm finishes and quiet details. When not covered in clay at her home studio, you can find her teaching ceramics at the art centre or chasing after her 3 kids.
Megan’s studio is host to member events and exhibitions.
Néidín Prout
Co-founder, interdisciplinary artist
Néidín grew up in Ireland and moved to Vancouver in 2011. After her move to Maple Ridge in 2015, she used art as a way to connect with her new community by exploring local classes in pottery and wood carving. Her bark carvings are inspired by the fairy stories she heard growing up and the wonderful nature and wildlife of BC. Her pottery is mostly a combination of wheel thrown mugs and hand sculpted animals.
Dana Bates
Co-founder, natural dyes/fibre/textile artist
Patterned Goods Co. is the convergence of Dana’s love of science and craft. Drawn to the processes of textile production and natural dyes, Dana marries the two to create her handmade goods. Combining these two media have allowed her to be more a part of the pieces she creates…pushing her to grow personally, as a natural dyer and as a fibre artist.
Tammi Vilchis
Co-founder, ceramic artist
Tammi Vilchis (Thea) is a Mexican ceramic artist and industrial designer. Although she began her professional ceramic training in 2014 at the Fine Arts National Institute (INBA) in Mexico City, it was a few years earlier, at “El Alfar” (Otumba, Mexico), where she began documenting and experimenting with clay and alternative firings with mentor and artist Don Alfonso Lopez. She has received diplomas in Sculpture (Academia de San Carlos), Innovation and Design Thinking (CEDIM), and Women and Gender Studies (UNWoman), among others. These teachings have a clear and strong influence on her approach to art. In 2020 she moved to Maple Ridge where, in addition to maintaining a tiny home studio, she teaches ceramic classes to people of all ages at The ACT. Thea is part of Burnaby’s Potters Guild and teaches at Bonsor Recreation Complex.