Meet Bill and Pamela Clark  

 Art pottery by BILL and PAMELA CLARK is completely original, hand thrown, decorated, and not reproductions of the past.  Their pottery is influenced by the mission style, Arts and Crafts Movement of the early 1900’s. Each piece is carefully made with unique shapes, organic designs, and flowing colors to be one of a kind. They use both stoneware and earthenware clays for their art pottery and fire at low to medium temperatures. After extensive research, they began mixing their own glazes using raw chemicals to achieve beautiful semi-matte or matte finished surfaces.  

Pamela uses a slip trail on some pottery for more detailed design work.  They also hand carve original, yet familiar shapes and scenes into the clay for high relief pottery and textured surfaces.  Bill studied ceramics with Harding Black in San Antonio, Texas and at Newcomb College in New Orleans. He has been making art pottery for over 35 years. Pamela studied art at Winthrop University and has been making art and pottery for over 25 years. They married in Florence, Italy in 2000 and returned to South Carolina, bought a home and built their spacious studio under the tall trees right in their own backyard.

Chosen by the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia the Clark’s pottery is on display in the museum’s permanent collection. Their work is also in the York County Art Museum’s permanent collection, the Stickley Museum in Morris Plains, NJ as well as other private collections. Bill and Pamela’s art pottery is collected internationally as far away as Italy and Scotland. They are members of the American Art Pottery Association and by selection in October 2009, they showed their special folding technique (unique to the work of George E. Ohr and recognized by David Rago who is seen regularly on the PBS Antique Road Show) at the Ohr Museum Festival in Biloxi, MS.  

Bill and Pamela Clark are proudly represented by WICKWIRE fine art/folk art in Hendersonville, North Carolina.