BESPOKE ceramic & wood

One-of-a-kind works handcrafted in Costa Rica and Nebraska

Stacked arrangement of various textured and colored stones and materials, including a dark blue glass stone, a smooth wooden sphere, a striped wooden piece, an orange clay shard, and a cracked white ceramic disc, against a light gray background.
Close-up image of a black textured surface with white irregularly shaped patterns on the bottom edge.
Close-up of a dark-colored sculpture with a wooden element and a blue stone, against a white background.
Close-up of a rusty, textured metallic surface next to a smooth, dark blue surface, both on a light-colored wooden background.

Grip Fast Studio

Some objects decorate a room. A few hold it. Grip Fast Studio makes the second kind.

Shaped by hand across two countries, each piece draws from the ocean, root systems, and the geometry discovered in sacred experiences. Ceramic and wood. Finished in fire.

Artist Brendan Bishop at the red door of Grip Fast Studio, Omaha, Nebraska.
Artist Brendan Bishop at the red door of Grip Fast Studio, Omaha, Nebraska.

Grip Fast Studio is the practice of Brendan Bishop, ceramicist, sculptor, and wood artist.

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Climber Climber
Climber
$350.00

A seed-pod form of white stoneware in a carbon-black finish — ridged, chambered, closer to banksia cone than leaf — mounted proud of layered walnut and teak. The beveled panel frames it like a specimen that grew there. Wood as habitat, clay as inhabitant.

Form Study

2026

F030

Totem NO. 15 Totem NO. 15
Totem NO. 15
$1,500.00

A column of collected weights in glazed stoneware — iron-washed slab base, bronze hourglass, cobalt spikes, a fluted lantern bead — crossed mid-height by a teak and walnut pediment. At the top a white orb carries a forged black spike and a barnacle-textured finial trailing natural bristle. The series’ longest reach from anchor to feather.

Totem Series

2026

**” L x **” W x **” H

** LBS

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T0015

We come from the stars NO. 1 We come from the stars NO. 1
We come from the stars NO. 1
$750.00

Torn sheets of carbon-black stoneware in a turning mass, matte char folding into wet gloss, gold flashing through like a starfield, raised on black steel. Cresting wave, opening bloom, debris cloud — it depends where you stand.

Impact Study

2026

IM017

Totem NO. 1 Totem NO. 1
Totem NO. 1
$7,000.00

Sea forms in white stoneware, stacked between teak, walnut, maple, and birch. Sand dollar, bivalve, urchin — pulled from the tide line and translated to fired clay, hand-carved wood and hourglasses marking the intervals. Below, a split in the live-edge base is held closed by a cobalt key: things break, time runs, we keep them anyway. The first totem, and the series’ clearest statement of intent.

Totem Series

2025

19” L x 24” W x 78” H

58 LBS

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TM001

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Observations thoughtfully SOURCED

Every piece begins long before the making — in stoneware shaped by hand, in teak from a generational Costa Rican plantation, in storm-felled wood salvaged and carved rather than left behind. Every material carries its own history, and every piece carries both.

The work holds the memory of its landscapes. When a piece from the studio arrives in your hands, you’ll feel the care before you can name it.

Close-up of a cracked, dark brown, wet, and textured surface, possibly soil or clay.
Close-up of a distressed piece of wood with a vibrant blue ceramic or glass object partially visible at the bottom.
Close-up of a rusty metal surface with patches of peeling paint and corrosion.