Luke Pestl – Potter (and Brewer)
Luke Pestl is a potter, relatively ‘emerging’ professionally yet with a robust practice and aesthetic.
Visual and tactile
In October last year I spent a week in beautiful Nova Scotia – a recce to research and plan the Rue Pigalle trip there for September 2024.
On these scouting missions, the oral chain of recommendations, the “have-you-heard-of…”, always lead me to a gem. And that’s exactly how I came across Luke Pestl. To keep it simple I’ll say that he lives “not too far” from Lunenburg - but the dirt road to his studio felt like I was driving to the edge of the world - a windswept, rugged hill, overlooking the ocean to infinity.