My pottery story…

I have always been drawn to math, nature and art. With math there’s one right answer, with nature there’s multiple answers, and with art we get to turn everything on it’s head and make up our own answers.

In 2003 I graduated from Katherine Gibbs in NYC with a degree in Visual Communications-Graphic Design and moved back home to the South Coast of Massachusetts. I started working at Salt Marsh Pottery, learning about kilns and painting bisqueware. While visiting my aunt in Stowe, Vermont that Thanksgiving, I knew I found my next adventure and moved to Stowe in January 2004 and began my graphic design career.

After 2 decades of designing and creating on the computer I was yearning for a creative outlet away from the screen. I took my first official wheel class at Muddy Creek Pottery with Heather Stearns in early 2022, which led me to handbuilding and surface design. I fell in love with building functional & sculptural pottery without the use of a wheel. Wanting to dive deeper into all things clay, I found my way to River Arts Community Center in Morrisville, Vermont and became the Clay Technician for a time. There my love for ceramics grew while mixing reclaim, making glazes, loading and unloading kilns, and chatting about all things ceramics with fellow studio members & students every day.

Clay allows me to explore, learn and create by drawing on math, nature and art, all at once. And that’s where you’ll find me - in my home studio located in Wolcott, Vermont - diving deeper and deeper into all three.

Lindsay H. Thurston, Co-Owner/Designer/Potter