About the Art and Artists
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Good Earth Pottery proudly represents the following artists:

Deb Martin - Whatcom Falls Pottery
Deb was introduced to pottery by taking lessons in the old studio at Good Earth Pottery. Initially Deb worked part time as a potter while maintaining her career as a local instructor and guide for mountain climbing, skiing, and kayaking. After selling for several years at local arts and crafts shows she brought her work back to Good Earth where she now sells exclusively as one of the owners. Her brilliant high-fired stoneware glazes reflect her love of nature’s intense color and design. Deb continuously strives to develop glazes and shapes to produce functional yet beautifully crafted pottery.
Cheryl A. Lee - Stony Clearing Studio
The stoneware clay containers I make are based on natural plant and animal forms which commonly surround us. Recent explorations in clay over the past decade follow a lifelong interest and education in the biological sciences and art. I create fanciful vegetables and fruits, plant forms, turtles, frogs, lizards, snails and other small creatures, and delight in seeing the seductive and transient beauty of their living forms being transformed into the permanence of fired clay. My intent is that they not only inform and intrigue us visually, but entice us to interact with and enjoy them through our physical touch as well. I use a combination of techniques to create my clay vessels. These include slab building, hand pressing from original molds, and hand building. All clayworks are fired to more than 2200 degrees farenheit (cone 6 or 10) in an electric or gas kiln at my home studio south of Bellingham. I believe that the greatest influences on my craft have been the childhood experience of my grandfather's garden in Colorado, and the beauty of a neighbor's pond in the hills of northern California. My life's journey has led me to numerous places throughout the U.S., ending here in northwest Washington in 1997. I share Stony Clearing Studio with my spouse, Gene Buckley, an artist in clay and metal.
Linda Stone - Silver Beach Pottery
Linda studied art throughout high school and college while growing up in the Midwest but always felt like an “artist without a medium” until she moved to Bellingham, Washington where she discovered pottery. After many years of raising and supporting her family she began to sell her pottery at local art and craft shows and now sells exclusively at Good Earth as one of the owners. Linda enjoys working in stoneware because of its functionality and texture. “My hope is that those who use my pottery can experience a little of the joy I feel about my life in the Pacific Northwest.”
 

Gene Buckley
Gene retired from teaching art but not from the firings that have always kept him interested - the bright fire that turns clay into stone and melts the compounds for glass. "Sometimes I illuminate a good form or a glaze color, but actually the best results illuminate me. It is good to grow and connect with the past and present and perhaps slowly uncover something of my future." Gene's work displays his enduring interest in the natural shapes and patterns of color in wildlife and especially the Pacific Northwest.

 

Karen Jackson
Karen began working in clay with molds and then discovered hand-building to be more creative and rewarding. Her "Sea Baskets" are unglazed to reflect the beach while a glossy glaze on the inside is used to represent the sea water. All of her glazes are food safe enabling her baskets to be used as vases or floats for candles and tea lights. Molded starfish and shells are embellished on the outside reflecting her love for the sea and the environment where she currently resides on beautiful Fidalgo Island.

   
   
   

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