A WAYS AWAY

A WAYS AWAY is the studio store of Clare Lancaster McGibbon, a multidisciplinary artist who works in ceramics and stained glass. The shop sells one-of-a-kind objects rather than a repeatable range: stained glass panels and mirrors, ceramic vessels, planters and dishes, sculptural lamps, textile pieces, and paper collages sold as cards. Prices run from $12 for a collage to $3,500 for a lamp. The About page traces the practice from Paris to New York to Los Angeles, and states that after losing her home and studio in the 2025 Eaton Fire the artist relocated to Portland, Oregon. Built on Shopify.

Website Design

One typeface for everything. Both the heading and body variables resolve to Ovo, a serif, at a single regular weight. Nothing is set in a companion sans, so navigation labels, product titles and prices all share the same letterforms at different sizes.

A near-monochrome ground. The theme’s colour schemes reduce to white, a pale grey, a near-black at #121212, true black and one muted gold at #d1c699. Colour arrives almost entirely through the photography, which is shot against plain white.

Navigation organised by material. The top menu splits into Glass, Ceramic, Textile, Artwork and Paper, each opening into sub-categories such as Mirror, Stained Glass, Lighting, Sculpture and Cards, with ARCHIVE and ABOUT beside them.

Shopping Experience

A catalogue that keeps its sold work. The full listing holds 356 products and a large share of them carry a SOLD badge over the thumbnail. Nothing is removed once it goes, so browsing doubles as looking through a portfolio.

Prices written whole. Amounts appear without decimals, so cards read $39, $45, $95, $420 and $3,500 rather than padded two-place figures.

A spare product page. A media gallery opens items in a modal, and the buy column carries the vendor line, title, price, ON HOLD and SOLD states, an Add to cart button and a pickup availability check. Descriptions run short, with bullet lines for material, dimensions and care.

Ready to ship as the shortcut. A dedicated collection of 59 in-stock items, mostly the $12 collages, separates what can be bought immediately from work listed for reference.

Brand Storytelling

Numbered like editions. Titles use an ordinal marker rather than a plain number, giving Collage nº 77, Mirror nº 9 and Stained Glass nº 11, which reads the catalogue as a series of single works.

The studio writes the copy. Product text keeps a first person register, as in “Some faux pearls to make your plants feel fancy”, and each listing closes with the same statement that the work is dated, signed and numbered, handmade in the Portland studio, and that no reproductions will be made.

Notable Features

Commissions and wholesale handled by email. A wholesale page and a single studio address cover press, collaborations and arranging pickup or delivery for larger work.

A mailing list with its frequency stated. The signup describes itself as a note from the studio with early access to new work, sent a handful of times a year.

Country and currency switching. A locale selector covers a long list of markets from a US dollar default.