🌻Aloha Aina Pottery Studio BLOG
Joel M. Veach
Accomplishing a Masters Degree in Ceramic Art from San Jose State University in California, Joel pursued his love of color, painting, sculpture, and textural design while traveling the world. His passion for different qualities of natural light and ecosystems led him to develop a personal style of artistry on three continents. Joel has taught ceramic mold making, hand building, wheel throwing, glaze chemistry, tile manufacturing, painting, and music in such remote areas as the Australian outback, a fishing village in Northwest Italy, Indonesia, and the Hawaiian Islands…..Where he currently lives and works with his sculptor wife Angelika, and their two dogs Sophie, and Sebastian in their bamboo mountain home studio on Oahu, Hawaii.
Angelika Veach
Angelika was born in Bavaria and immigrated to the United States with her mother as a youngster. Exposed to the art of two very different cultures, she absorbed the beauty of self expression through art. Missing Europe, Angelika took her child and returned to Europe, settled in Rome, Italy, and there began exploring sculpture as a medium. A few years later, Angelika moved to Mendocino, California. A longtime friend who taught at the Mendocino Art Academy, had made a name in sculpture and painting. Angelika studied sculpture with her and found sculpture and clay to be a perfect medium to express her passion for protecting the environment and animals. She moved to Hawai’i in 1981 and continued to pursue her love of clay. There she met and married a ceramic engineer: Joel M. Veach. Together they rented a plantation house on an mountain, in a tropical rainforest of O’ahu and opened what is O’ahu’s last Ma and Pa studio, Aloha Aina Pottery Studio. They produce pottery for many of the gift shops in the Hawaiian islands. Aloha Aina Pottery Studio offers wheel throwing classes daily and hand throwing classes weekly. Arrangements can also be made for birthday party classes, anniversary parties, and clay dates as well as other special occasion workshops. We welcome Girl and Boy Scouts, and offer opportunities to earn badges.
Angelika can be reached at Alohaainapotterystudio@live.com and on Facebook Aloha Pottery Studio, or by calling (808)621-2388