My work begins with a memory: my grandmother's wild seaside garden in Denmark, where she sang to the birds and they sang back.
Today, in the French Pyrénées, I fill my handmade pots with native wildflowers—creating small habitats for your terrace or garden.
Birds need native plants.
Together, we can bring the birdsong home.
About Jennie
My grandma mormor's summer house in the 1980s
My little atelier in Lourdes, France today - 2026
In my small atelier in the Pyrénées, I create pottery for gardens, birds, and wildflowers. But the roots of this work reach back much further—to my grandmother’s seaside garden in Marielyst, Denmark.
Her garden was never manicured. It was alive. Wildflowers grew freely, insects buzzed everywhere, and the air was filled with birdsong. She used to sing to the birds, and somehow they seemed to sing back. Her tiny home was full of the things she made by hand, and from her I learned something simple but powerful: art and nature belong in everyday life.
I have never forgotten the vitality of that place—or how noticeable it is when birdsong disappears.
That early memory followed me through many years and many places. It was there when I founded Green Spaces in New York and later Denver, building the first green coworking space in the United States. For ten years we hosted festivals, events, art shows, and gatherings for entrepreneurs working toward a more ecological world. Our work was featured in publications like The New York Times, BBC World News, and Tokyo TV, but more importantly it showed me what happens when people come together around the care of the living world.
In 2018 my husband and I moved to France, and life slowed down in the best possible way. Surrounded by mountains and wild landscapes, I began exploring ceramics, photography, writing, and ecological projects—following curiosity wherever it led.
Eventually, that curiosity brought me back to the birds.
When I started making pottery for the garden, small birds kept appearing in my work. First on bowls and plant pots, then on birdhouses and water bowls for the garden. But as I researched what birds and pollinators actually need, I discovered something surprising.
Birdhouses and water help—but the most important thing is native plants.
Wildflowers that belong to this land feed the insects that birds depend on. Without native plants, the entire chain begins to disappear.
What shocked me even more was learning that many plants sold in conventional garden centers—even those labeled “bee-friendly”—can contain pesticides harmful to pollinators. It became clear that helping birds meant starting at the very beginning: with the plants that sustain life around them.
So my little atelier took on a new purpose.
Today I fill my handmade terracotta and faïence pots with native Pyrenean wildflowers sourced from small local nurseries such as Les Sauvages Pépinière (The Wild Nursery). These are not just decorative pots. They are small starter habitats.
You can keep one on your terrace or balcony for a season, then plant the wildflower in your garden so it can grow and spread. The pot becomes ready for another native plant, and the cycle continues—more flowers, more insects, more birds.
In my shop you’ll find pottery pots with small birds, garden bowls, bird water dishes, birdhouses, and handmade pieces designed to live outdoors. Each piece carries a memory of my grandmother singing to birds by the Baltic Sea—and a hope that, together, we will bring the vibrant birdsong back.
One small pot at a time.
