About Mayfield Studios
A creative community shaped by conversation and making.
Tucked into the heart of Abbotsford, Mayfield Studios is a warm, light-filled creative space where pottery, craft, conversation and community have always belonged together.
Our story
Mayfield Studios began in 2021 when we took over an old warehouse on Mayfield Street in Abbotsford with a simple idea: to create a place where people could come together to make things by hand.
Mayfield’s first offerings included Cinema Mayfield, a small shop of handmade crafts, clay, sewing and textile workshops, creative gatherings and community events supporting charities and community engagement.
For more than two years, these early projects ran alongside the slow work of transforming the building itself. Walls came down, rooms shifted, and the studio gradually began to take shape.
At the rear of the building, Michael ran his woodworking studio, while the front spaces evolved into a flexible creative hub. Mayfield grew organically, responding to the people who arrived, the causes they loved, and the creative life that began to gather here.
How pottery became the anchor - Giggle and be You!
As Mayfield developed, our one-off pottery experiences through ClassBento began to grow quickly. More people arrived for clay experiences combined with private picnics while they experienced wheel throwing, handbuilding, pottery painting for the first time.
What began as one creative offering among many gradually became the largest part of Mayfield’s daily life. The demand for lots of bubbles, giggles, and space for parties with clay kept expanding.
Pottery parties kept Mayfield alive and giggling while the larger creative vision waited for the building to catch up. Meanwhile, COVID lockdowns provided opportunities to experiment with cheese making, box building , and sculptured wooden niches all while broadcasting our favourite Looney Tunes on the warehouse walls.
The next chapter
Plans to renovate the building so that Mayfield could hold both pottery and its wider arts-and-crafts life went through council and were held up for almost two years.
Now, with the mezzanine finally due for completion at the end of July, the original Mayfield vision is beginning to return.
The new space will allow us to welcome back more of the creative activities that were part of Mayfield from the beginning: writing groups, small talks, craft circles, workshops, gatherings, exhibitions, reading groups and other forms of making.
Everyone is welcome at Mayfield Street.
Whether you’re here for a long afternoon at the wheel, a creative gathering, or simply a slower pace, we’re glad you found us.