Sam Barringer is a second-generation potter from Vermont.  He makes functional and decorative pots on the potter’s wheel that highlight the beauty of everyday rituals.  Sam's work is a pastiche of British, American, Japanese, and Korean influences that reflects and re-contextualizes the craft lineages he is a part of.   Sam has returned to Vancouver after completing apprenticeships at Cornwall Bridge Pottery in Connecticut and with Mark Hewitt in North Carolina, where he developed production skills, learned to fire large wood-burning kilns, and refined his sense of form.  In between these apprenticeships, Sam also attended a residency in Icheon, South Korea, learning Onggi techniques.