Although primarily self-taught in ceramics, Pitts holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Ecology, a degree that fostered her interest in the interdependence between humans, materials, and constructed environments. Her earlier career as the owner of a successful interior design firm (1999–2025) exposed her to a wide range of artistic mediums (including Venetian plaster, frescoes, murals, oil painting, and surface design) all of which now enrich the tactile and sculptural vocabulary of her contemporary work. Her design practice took her across residential, commercial, and institutional contexts, from museum installations to commissioned murals and specialty finishes.
Pitts began working with clay at a community studio, where she discovered in porcelain a medium that mirrored her sensibilities: malleable yet demanding, delicate yet durable, capable of holding narrative through form and texture. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she dedicated herself fully to ceramics, building a home studio with her husband and immersing herself in two years of intensive experimentation. These explorations allowed her to integrate her broad material background into a cohesive ceramic language that reflects both ecological memory and human emotion.
Her work is represented by galleries across Canada and has been acquired by collectors in Europe, the United States, and Asia. She has produced custom installations for interior designers and bespoke ceramic collections for notable clients such as Roman and Williams (NY) and award-winning Canadian chefs, the most recently project was the creation of 400 pieces for Mystic a restaurant nominated the Best New Restaurant in North America, by the 6th Annual World Culinary Awards 2025. Her work has appeared in Where She Creates, Rising Tide (a nationally recognized cookbook), and numerous lifestyle and design publications. Pitts continues to build a practice grounded in intuition, material investigation, and a profound respect for the environment that inspire her.
Each hand-built porcelain vessel or sculptural form holds the layered impressions of foraged materials, industrial textures, or trace elements from the landscapes that surround her. Her surfaces often blur the lines of agitation and quietness, creating space for moments of amazement and contemplative stillness, speak to cycles of decay, resilience, erosion, and renewal. The result is a body of work that feels simultaneously classical and contemporary, intimate and expansive.
Within The Power of Objects, Pitts’s work illuminates how ceramic vessels can act as emotional and ecological markers, carrying the imprints of both natural and industrial histories. Her porcelain vessels reveal the subtle dialogue between environment and memory, demonstrating how objects become vessels of lived experience and sensory knowledge. Through her attentive engagement with material, Pitts presents in tangible form the beliefs that crafted objects hold stories not only of their makers, but of the worlds, human and nonhuman, that shape them.
