The Clark Pottery

01/08/2026

Finally got the bamboo for the new slip brushes, horse hair from Washington, bamboo from NC, be interesting to see the texture they make with the porcelain slip..

01/01/2026

01/01/2026

New pots from the last firing of 2025! The glazes are really working these days... May 2026 be a great year full off creative and positive stuff, nuff said!

12/27/2025

About 200 # pugged reclaim clay run through the mill for 1st time. Let stiffen and run it through again, then let sit in plastic for a couple months to homogenize til throwable...

12/11/2025

Five more Teapots for the next tea enthusiasts. Handle placement, it can mean graceful lift and dispense of the tea, or cumbersome struggle. In my opinion, most handmade teapots are clumsy, awkward and don't perform well for the sake of "artistic" expression. "Form follows function" is and will alway be the metric by which I make pottery. Here are four teapots with different handle placements, mid body with the help of the collar add stability and control. Handle at the top of the collar gives more control as the teapot tips toward the cup. And mister in-between shedding balance and expression visually with the collar sprouting from the teapot handle punctuating the break between the body of the pot and the collar. So many options...

07/19/2025

Last thing to do to a mug in the making process is to give each pot a birth mark (Stamp). Long after we are all gone there will be pottery shards dug up somewhere with The Clark Pottery stamp on them, very comforting to me in someway...