The Clark House Pottery is the creation and dream of Bill and Pamela Clark. Their pottery is influenced by the Mission Style, Arts and Crafts movement of the early 1900s. Their work is completely original, hand thrown and decorated art pottery, not reproductions of the past. Each piece is carefully made with unique shapes, organic designs and flowing colors to be one of a kind.

Bill studied ceramics with Harding Black in San Antonio, Texas and at Newcomb College in New Orleans. He has been making art pottery for over 35 years. Pamela studied art at Winthrop University and has been making art and pottery for over 12 years. The two happily married in Florence, Italy in 2000 and returned to South Carolina to dream, create, and design pottery in their spacious studio under tall trees in their backyard.

They use both stoneware and earthenware clays for their art pottery and fire at low to medium temperatures. After extensive research, selected glazes are mixed using raw chemicals to achieve beautiful semi-matte or matte finished surfaces. Pamela uses a slip trail on some pottery for more detailed design work. Every design is completely original. They also hand carve original, yet familiar, shapes and scenes into the clay for high relief pottery and textured surfaces. They do not use molds to copy any art pottery designs, they are all originals.

Their pottery is part of the permanent collection of the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia and the York County Museum of Art.

Clark House Pottery is displayed and sold annually every February at the east coast Arts and Crafts Conference at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC.

Bill & Pam also show every March at the Catawba Valley Pottery Festival in Hickory, NC, and early September at the local Art in The Park Festival in beautiful downtown Greenville, SC.

A good way to see both their work and how they make it is to visit their studio (by appointment only) or during the Greenville Metropolitan Arts Council Open Studios tour every November.

Their work is sold at Historic Lighting in Pasadena Ca, the South Carolina Artisan Center, and the Wickwire Gallery in Hendersonville, NC. Clark House Pottery pieces have been collected internationally by clients as far away as Italy and Scotland.