NANCY WATERHOUSE
Quick Facts
Years as an artist
10yrs as a potter
Main clay body
mid range stoneware
Primary clay building method
wheel, hand building and pinching
Favorite studio tool
Sherrill Mud Tools ribs
Clay wishes or dreams
To continue to be inspired by clay for the rest of my life.
Artist Statement
My adventure with clay began as a child while I was busy making mud pies under the swing set. A few years later I was sculpting animals in a summer school program. Fast forward quite a few decades, I signed up for classes at a local pottery studio and was under the spell of clay. I started by throwing on the potter’s wheel, honing my skills and acquiring techniques. Lately, hand building dominates my practice, with the use of patterns. Paper patterns are familiar, from years of first watching my Mom sewing, then sewing myself. Templates give me the freedom to experiment with texture, color, and embellishments. I work with a variety of clay bodies, mostly stoneware and fire in mid-range electric kiln and from time to time, raku.
Pottery allows the joy to create, the challenge to collaborate and see the world through a new lens. Clay presents unlimited possibilities in tactile expression and function. I make my work with the intent to both amuse and delight the onlooker. I would hope you to want to pick up my pots and explore what I have created. Pieces of art are the basis for our self-expression in our homes and lives. I feel blessed that my pieces just happen to be functional as well.
Pottery allows the joy to create, the challenge to collaborate and see the world through a new lens. Clay presents unlimited possibilities in tactile expression and function. I make my work with the intent to both amuse and delight the onlooker. I would hope you to want to pick up my pots and explore what I have created. Pieces of art are the basis for our self-expression in our homes and lives. I feel blessed that my pieces just happen to be functional as well.
Artist Bio
Ten years ago, I started throwing clay on the wheel at a studio in Midland Park, New Jersey. Since then, I have moved to Bluffton, South Carolina and now study in Savannah, Georgia and Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts in Maplecrest, New York, the heart of the beautiful Catskill Mountains during the summer. My pieces now include both hand built and thrown on the wheel. I fire my pots in electric and raku kilns.
Workshop Education:
SUSAN BEECHER * JOHN BRITT * SEQUOIA MILLER * MARK SHAPIRO * LUCY FAGELLA * CHANDRA DEBUSE * SAM TAYLOR * SANDI PIERANTOZZI * NEIL PATTERSON * GAY SMITH * SUZY LINDSEY * JACK TROY * KRISTEN KIEFFER * RONAN PETERSON * LIZ SLOT-SUMMERFIELD * RYAN GREENHECK * KIP O’KRONGLY
Pottery Shows:
Marge & Friends at Four Corners Gallery, Bluffton, South Carolina. 2016, 2017.
Sugar Maples Fall Pottery Festival, Maplecrest, New York. 2016, 2017.
SIP, a national juried cup show in Savannah, Georgia. 2016, 2018
Gallery Representation:
Four Corners Gallery, Bluffton, South Carolina
Workshop Education:
SUSAN BEECHER * JOHN BRITT * SEQUOIA MILLER * MARK SHAPIRO * LUCY FAGELLA * CHANDRA DEBUSE * SAM TAYLOR * SANDI PIERANTOZZI * NEIL PATTERSON * GAY SMITH * SUZY LINDSEY * JACK TROY * KRISTEN KIEFFER * RONAN PETERSON * LIZ SLOT-SUMMERFIELD * RYAN GREENHECK * KIP O’KRONGLY
Pottery Shows:
Marge & Friends at Four Corners Gallery, Bluffton, South Carolina. 2016, 2017.
Sugar Maples Fall Pottery Festival, Maplecrest, New York. 2016, 2017.
SIP, a national juried cup show in Savannah, Georgia. 2016, 2018
Gallery Representation:
Four Corners Gallery, Bluffton, South Carolina