About Breuwen
Breuwen is a studio practice rooted in traditional craft, cultural knowledge, and the transformative relationship between people, materials, and place. Through textiles, ceramics, natural dyes, and educational programming, we explore how handmade processes connect us to history, community, and the natural world.
Our work is guided by a shared belief that craft is more than a method of making. It is a way of preserving knowledge, fostering connection, and creating meaningful experiences. Whether cultivating indigo for natural dyes, firing pottery with wood, teaching workshops, or researching traditional techniques, we are committed to honoring the generations of makers who came before us while contributing to the continued evolution of these living traditions.
Based in Somerset, California, Breuwen serves as both a creative studio and an ongoing exploration of sustainability, heritage, and the enduring value of the handmade.
Grey Lux
Co-Founder/Textile Artist
Grey Lux is a Boricua Taíno textile artist, educator, and natural dyer based in California. A second generation member of the Taíno Borikén diaspora, he was raised with a strong connection to his ancestral culture through community gatherings, family traditions, and frequent visits to Humacao, Puerto Rico. Navigating both Borikén and American identities, he found in art a lifelong means of exploring culture, memory, and belonging.
Grey creates textiles as vessels for cultural memory, drawing upon Taíno symbolism, cosmology, and storytelling traditions. His practice combines natural dyeing, weaving, hand stitching, shibori, sashiko, screen printing, and surface design to create works that explore the relationship between ancestral knowledge and contemporary life. Through these processes, he reinterprets historical patterns and visual traditions, bringing them into conversation with present day experiences and communities.
His work begins with the land. On his 11 acre property in Somerset, he cultivates dye plants including indigo, madder, and golden marguerite, transforming them into pigments and dyes for his textile practice. Working with water, fire, fiber, and plant materials, he is developing an increasingly closed loop creative process rooted in sustainability, stewardship, and craft.
In addition to his studio practice, Grey is committed to sharing traditional textile knowledge through workshops, lectures, demonstrations, and community programming. His work reflects a belief that craft traditions are living forms of cultural knowledge carried forward through making, teaching, and community connection.
Will Chase
Co-Founder/Ceramic Artist
Will Chase is a ceramic artist whose work explores the intersection of precision, process, and the transformative power of fire. Trained in Astrophysics at Carnegie Mellon University, he brings a deep curiosity about natural systems and material behavior to his studio practice, creating geometric vessels that balance structure with the unpredictability of wood firing.
Working in stoneware through a combination of wheel throwing and slab construction, Will creates forms that bridge technical precision and organic transformation. Influenced by the traditions of Japanese Bizen and Shigaraki pottery, his work embraces minimal intervention, allowing the clay body and firing process to become active collaborators in the finished piece. Ash deposits, flame patterns, and subtle surface variations become records of the kiln itself, revealing the dialogue between intention, material, and fire.
Will has spent years deepening his study of wood-fired ceramics through workshops, kiln building, and international study. He has participated in wood-firing programs in Seto, Japan in both 2023 and 2025. In 2025, he helped construct the wood-fire kiln at Oakland, CA’s Laney College in 2025, and continues to participate in firings there throughout the year. Most recently, he studied with Linwood Pottery, further expanding his understanding of traditional wood-firing techniques and kiln design.
Will is currently working toward the completion of a Woof-Fire Kiln on his Somerset, California property, a project informed by years of study, kiln construction, and wood-firing practice. The kiln will serve as a space for wood-firing, education, and community workshops, supporting his continued exploration of ceramics while creating opportunities to share the traditions and collaborative spirit of wood-fired pottery with others.
In Loving Memory of the astonishing Dr. Watson.
Dr. Watson, PhD/Pup in Chief
Dr. Watson is a graduate of UC Barkley and holds a degree in Barkitecture, with a minor in bouncing.
He is an active participant in the creative process, and gives a final sniff inspection on all pieces.
He is not our CFO.