Bridgman Pottery

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Long inspired by the myriad textures, shapes, and colors found in the garden, I am largely a self-taught potter decended from generations of self-taught Southern gardeners.

In Winston-Salem, I trained in oil painting at Salem College and in children's printmaking while completing a year-long internship at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art.

About my 'Delta Zen' vernacular (ooh, I have a graduate degree! I know big words!): in Oxford, Mississippi, my interest in pottery took root during two years of graduate field-research on Southern folk artists through the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. During that time, I also developed an interest in adapted Asian motifs, specifically the concept of Zen space in nature. This is most noticeable in one of my signature serving-piece designs: a hazel-green impression of a ginko or Japanese maple leaf floating on a cream background.

You can also see the some Zen balancing with my nascent southern wackiness in my pottery- the restraint and the ladybugs, classic shapes and untempered fluting. We can't get out of hand, here. At least until I come up with a way to render my bottletree and tire planter- juxtaposed with a classic boxwood sphere- in stoneware.