Decorative bar image consisting of alternating turquoise and spring green tiles with impressions of leaves. There are 9 tiles that make up the bar image and the leaf impressions are diagonal in each of the square tiles. Each tile shows the leaf point facing to a different diagonal. Leaf images used are from ash and oak trees. Natural Elements Pottery

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photo image of christy knox in her studio at her home in cummington, ma.

Welcome to Natural Elements Pottery!

I have lived among the woods of Western Massachusetts for almost twenty years. Over that time I have tended a large and rather miraculous garden. Each day while walking to my studio I am looking across the yard, seeing shapes and colors of every season. I find myself constantly awe-struck by that visual interplay of color, texture, pattern and natural form. This experience is ever changing, fleeting, and unique.

As a potter, I take great joy in creating a form, composing a surface, juxtaposing those same elements. I rejoyce in challenging my own artistic vision and technique. Whether the surface becomes the wall of a vessel, the finial for a teapot cap, or the foot of a bowl, I use the clay as the medium for expressing that uniqueness, attempting to capture and reflect a particular moment in time.

Part of the true joy of creating functional art is in the handling and daily interaction with a finished piece of pottery. It is my hope that each piece carries to you a part of that joy, bringing it into your home and into your life!

Christy Knox

Decorative bar image consisting of alternating turquoise and spring green tiles with impressions of leaves. There are 2 tiles that make up the bar image and the leaf impressions are diagonal in each of the square tiles. Each tile shows the leaf point facing to a different diagonal. Leaf images used are from ash and oak trees.

Education:

MFA 1986 Ceramics, Ohio University

BFA 1983 Art Education, University of Illinois

Recent Shows -

2007

"3 Person Show"; Becket Arts Center, Becket, MA

"For the House and Garden"; Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI

"Art Alfresco"; Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2006

"The Teapot Form and Function"; NCECA, Portland, OR

"Hollidazzle"; Kentucky Museum of Art, Louisville, KY

"The Cup Show"; Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA

Natural Elements Pottery
110 Mount Road
Cummington, MA 01026
413.634.5770
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