From Pastry Chef to Pottery Artist:

I am a classically trained pastry chef turned ceramic artist, and this is my story.  founder of Slip Studio, in White Plains, NY, a pottery studio focused on hand-building classes, workshops, and creative community.

I’m a classically trained Pastry Chef with a love of making, cooking and eating. After college, I moved to Paris and went to cooking school at Le Cordon Bleu. It was 1997 and cooking school was not yet a thing, but I did it anyway, because food is my thing. I stuck around Paris and worked at Fauchon and did the French 4star restaurant thing in NYC. Eventually, I grew tired of the long hours and wanted a more balanced life. I started Cocoa Designs in San Francisco, got married, and the rest is history.

Food has always been my thing.

Pottery became my thing as I grew my family and started searching for a more balanced life.  I started ceramics in 2014, with three little kiddos and a tiny pocket of time.  It wasn’t until COVID struck that I delved deeper into pottery. I slowly grew my home studio and started selling my work, Ariella Ceramics was born in late 2021.

After training at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris and working my way through pastry kitchens in Montreal, NYC, and SF, I shifted toward a more sustainable creative life.   I discovered pottery in 2014 while raising three young children, and built a home studio. Ariella Ceramics was born in 2021 and grew into Slip Studio.

Life moves slowly and takes giants leaps all at the same time, and here I am opening my first pottery studio in the heart of White Plains, serving the Westchester community. Slip Studio is a dedicated workspace, a labor of love of food and pottery, clay and art, mindfulness and community.

I hope you can join me in this new adventure!

-xo Ariella