shannon mcquilkin

As a young girl, Shannon spent the summers with her artist Grandmother

“Billie”, learning a wide breadth of all the arts including baking, sewing,

plant dying fabrics, pressing flowers, painting and ceramics. She would

spend long days pinch potting and coiling, some of her favorite techniques

to this day.

While Shannon has been an artist her entire life, it's only been in the last

several years she has been able to focus solely on it as a career. Her

ceramics are both thrown on the wheel and hand built, with an emphasis on

the organic nature of the clay being the guide.

While some of her functional pieces incorporate glaze, her work often

showcases the fired clay by itself, with slips, engobes, underglaze pencils, sgraffito and pressed rocks as adornment. Her work is often inspired by the raw, untamed earth body itself, wild & free. Just like her.