It started with a dirt pile.

I’ve had a lifelong love affair with clay. It started in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the backyard of my childhood home that was full of iron-rich, Virginia clay. This is where I first learned how easy it is to get lost in the dirt. For most of my adult life, I’ve taken ceramics classes or produced work in local studios up and down the West Coast, and even Texas. After many years of dreaming of the day I’d have a space of my own, in the winter of 2024, with the help of a local contractor, I was able to convert my backyard shed into a 120-square-foot pottery studio. And at long last, SHED was born.