About

Will is a potter and whittler who was raised in the Mid-Atlantic, but has made his home in Washington for the last 15 years. He works out of Starflower Studios, along with six other talented artists. Ceramics is his third career, after history teaching and librarianship.

Using subtractive handbuilding techniques, I make abstract sculptural and functional softly geological vessels, inspired by close observation of the forested landscape and geology of the Pacific Northwest, insect and animal dwellings, and archaeological objects from around the world. I finish my pots in wood or soda kilns to develop surfaces using texture, layers of color, and ash. My ceramics explore how we construct our own material history through the objects we see and touch daily, excavating an idea of home in a world that does not always welcome us.