EJL Pottery

"To work with clay is to be in touch with the taproot of life.'' ~Shoji Hamada

Welcome to my pottery site. My way to clay has been long and winding, with many stops along the way. When I was nineteen,I visited Teague Pottery in Seagrove, NC, where a potter asked me if I would like to try to throw a pot. Yes, and I knew immediately that I had been bitten by the "bug." Seven years later I took my first class. Then followed another hiatus while I raised a family. Some forty years after I began, I am again a potter, now a handbuilder. Working with clay is a meditation.

I work in both raku and cone 6 oxidation. My husband and I are interested in ukiyo-e woodblock prints, and this aesthetic has informed my pottery.