Axel Ebring Pottery

Born in Uppsala, Sweden, Ebring emigrated to North America in his late teens- first to the American Mid-West and then later to the B.C. interior, where he worked on the railroad, in the mines, prospected and farmed. It was during the homestead days in Terrace, BC that he began to use the potting skills he had learned as a boy from his father and grandfather.

In mid-life, during the 1920s, he moved to Notch Hill and began to take potting more seriously. Within a decade, he had seriously depleted the clay deposits in the area (that, or it was too difficult to transport to his studio) and Ebring made the move to Vernon, where he purchased land from Morris Middleton on the site of what was one of the Okanagan Valley’s earliest brick yards.

It was here that he worked until his death in 1954 producing a wide variety of functional earthenware in a wood-fired kiln.

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