Wendy Durand Pottery

For many years I dreamed about creating pottery...

I have always wanted to be a potter.  I remember feeling this way back in college when I first saw a potter throw on the wheel.

It took me half a lifetime, but I am now in the midst of a journey exploring design, style, color, form and a wide variety of techniques.   In each form I create, I look to find elegance and refinement and a bit of fun or functionality. I am drawn to the unique look and silky feel of horsehair pottery and am equally enchanted by striking colors and unusual, exaggerated shapes and textures created in stoneware.   

Each piece is one-of-a-kind: designed, thrown, altered, textured, glazed and fired by me. The creation of a “pot” involves both technical skill and creativity. But behind it all, for me, there is nothing quite like the joy of immersing myself in clay and attempting to make something beautiful from it.  

 I want people to want to touch my work and, for my work to touch them.

What people are saying....

"Earthy, yet elegant"

"Refined with a suggestion of purpose and functionality"

"A great variety of form and color"