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Clark House Pottery
After getting married in Florence, Italy in 2000, Bill & Pam returned to Greenville, SC and built a wonderful studio together under tall trees behind their home and named it Clark House Pottery LLC. Their pottery is mostly influenced by the Mission Arts and Crafts movement of the early 1900’s and design directions of that time. Their work is one-of-a-kind, hand thrown, sculpted, and decorated art pottery. They make work using earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain clays on the wheel and sculpting, then hand glaze each piece with both commercial and special formatted glazes.
Bill has been making pottery 55 years, and apprenticed with Harding Black in San Antonio, Texas in high school. In 2003, Bill began a new path in clay when he saw a piece of pottery by George Ohr, the “Mad Potter of Biloxi, Mississippi.” He was determined to discover the technical mechanical throwing methods on the potter’s wheel that made those light and unusual shapes. Bill has now taken designs much further with his own interpretations.
Pam is best known for her twisted clay horse sculptures. Horses remind her of a very special time in her young life when she experienced her first taste of freedom and independence. Her horse “Shasta” took her into fields and streams to explore nature, study, design, and dream about making beauty. Pam enjoys those wonderful memories as she makes each wheel thrown body in stoneware and hand sculpts the remaining horse. Like that spirited horse, these can be both easy and a bit difficult to tame. Pam enjoys making original designs with flora and fauna using sculpting, carving, slip trail and surface texture techniques.
In 2011, the original George Ohr family descendants formally, in writing, welcomed both Bill and Pam into their family and thanked them for continuing this type of work. This was an incredible honor! The direct descendants of George Ohr have purchased more than 280 pieces of Bill’s pottery. They sold 386 pieces of their pottery at the Ohr-Okeefe Museum of Art in Biloxi ,MS.
Bill & Pam’s art pottery is in the following museum permanent collections:
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, American Museum of Ceramic Art in California, Dallas Museum of Art, Mississippi Museum of Art, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art in Texas, Newark Museum in New Jersey, Museum of Art and Science in Macon Georgia and in South Carolina the McKissick Museum of Art, South Carolina State Museum and the Museum of York County. Their work can be acquired at the Southern Highland Craft Guild Galleries, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, the Craftsman Guild of Mississippi Gallery in Ridgeland, MS, and South Carolina Artisans Center in Walterboro, SC.
They are thankful to many happy collectors and the Ohr descendants which have helped propel them to numerous good milestones in their journey in clay.
Greenville, SC
Clay
Guild member since 2024