October Featured 3D Artist – Linda McDonald

My love of pottery came later in life.  My early years I studied dance and wanted to teach ballet and tap, but sometimes life provides other opportunities.  Instead of a dance teacher, I followed the path of special education, transitioning students from high school to community college.  I was shadowing a student in a ceramics class when I discovered how therapeutic clay can be.  After retiring I started taking classes and workshops in pottery & glaze techniques.  

Today, I have my own studio where I create functional, sculptural and lawn art.

I love trying new forms with handbuilding, making a complete set of dinnerware or a piece of garden art. Sometimes I don’t have a plan when I sit down at the wheel and just let the clay determine if it will become a cup, bowl or bird house.  

For me pottery is therapy!  I love bringing my simplistic, minimalist creativity to my pottery.  I am very much into sensory and touch, a coffee/tea mug must feel good in your hands, a bowl can tell you I’m made for a late night snack or fill me up with popcorn!  

Any form of art is therapy!    

Linda McDonald

Mormudd Pottery