NORTH CAROLINA CLAYWORKS POTTERS GUILD
Fall Pottery Sale
Saturday, October 19 | 10am-5pm
Sunday, October 20 | 10am-4pm
Eno Mill Gallery
437 Dimmocks Mill Rd, Suite 17 | Hillsborough, NC
ABOUT NC CLAYWORKS POTTERS GUILD
NC ClayWorks is a pottery guild for potters and pottery lovers in and around the Triangle of North Carolina. Our mission is to encourage, educate and provide opportunities for our members, regardless of skill level.
We promote ceramics by sharing our knowledge and love of clay with the public and each other.
PARTICIPATING POTTERS
Wendy Clements
Wendy Clements (Blue Fern Pottery) is a clay artist from Durham, NC. She loves the feeling of accomplishment and self-expression that comes from creating forms with her hands. For the last twenty-five years, she has focused on clay as a medium. She has done wheel work but concentrates mainly on hand-building and sculpture now. Wendy creates functional and decorative pottery in assorted styles and forms. She uses a variety of unusual colors and textures in her work including high-fire commercial glazes, low-fire glazes, underglazes, stains, and oxides. Wendy utilizes organic tools such as leaves, flowers, and wood as well as stamps, mats, and rollers. Wendy enjoys exploring new techniques and developing her artistic style. Much of her work is inspired by the natural world, especially plants and animals. Wendy took classes in Michigan for many years and now works at the Durham Arts Council pottery studio as an assistant and she also has a small home studio. Clay art is a source of joy and pleasure for Wendy, and she is grateful to participate in this ancient form of art.
Belinda Gabryl
I have principally worked in clay throughout my career because this medium best accommodates my interests in the relationship between surface and form. Clay is, of course, infinitely malleable, but the surface treatment establishes the character and idea of each piece. My surface treatments also continue to play with animation, and they imbue the figures with an aura of mystery and myth. There are allusions to images and ideas derived from traditional Western and ancient Meso-American forms. Influences can also be traced to my experiences with the cultures of the Southwest during my formative and College years.
Taylor Kennedy
Hilary Mitchell
Hilary Mitchell (The Muddy Potter) is a Durham, NC based ceramicist. She primarily makes ceramics using the wheel. However, she occasionally returns to her hand building roots. These include large sculptural vases or coiled planters. She mostly makes utilitarian pieces like bowls, vases, pitchers, serving bowls, handled mixing bowls, lidded jars, cream and sugar sets, etc. When she wants to challenge herself, she makes teapots, handled serving trays, or Hittite Vases. She aims to create beautiful, lasting pieces that people are proud to use or display in their homes.
Jennifer Sherwin & Kitty Sherwin (mother/daughter duo)
Having been involved with clay since a teenager, Kitty now works in her basement studio making mugs, plates, vases and much more. Some of these are decorated with a range of animals including cats, dogs, giraffes, unicorns and even an octopus. Other items are decorated with handmade stamps featuring nature or ethnic designs. Check out Kitty’s Facebook page: Kitty Sherwin Pottery.
Jen enjoys throwing and hand building. In addition to her functional pottery, such as mugs, platters, bowls, platters and more, she enjoys making outdoor art. This includes tree faces, birdhouses and ceramic flowers. She loves to texture her work with a variety of handmade and commercial stamps. Check out Jen Sherwin Instagram.
Sharon Taylor
I always thought I’d enjoy throwing pottery and started lessons in 2015, a few months after retiring from medicine. My first lessons were through the Durham Arts Council, then I branched out to the Cary Arts Center and Claymakers in Durham. Ironically, closing of the larger studios during the Covid-19 pandemic led to improvement in my throwing and an expanded repertoire. I was able to rent a space at Ceramica in Cary where I could take online pottery classes and throw as often as I liked, eventually leading to a long distance mentorship with Sarah Wells Rolland of the Village Potters Clay Center in Asheville, NC. My favorite things to make are functional pots, especially vases, but you’ll also find some mugs, bowls, bottles, and other items among my wares. I’m also interested in different glazes and glaze techniques. Some of the pots in the current sale have shino glazes and some were fired in a kazegama kiln where wood ash and soda ash are sprayed onto raw pots during the firing to create the glaze.