Julie Cavender

Willow Tree Pottery
Carnesville, GA
www.willowtreepotteryandgallery.com

I am self-taught since 1991 after receiving a potter's wheel, a bag of clay and a how-to book for Christmas. I proceeded to make a lot of mud before I could make the pottery that I love. I make pots that want to held. I work with high-fired stoneware clay. Working at the wheel I let the clay tell me what it wants to do. I'm inspired by the colors and textures of my many gardens and in everyday things around me. Using found objects(seeds, rocks, shells, tree bark,etc.), stamps, hardware items, cookie cutters, I add textures to my pottery. I also hand-build large bowls and vases, make wind chimes and flower sculptures and make mosaic lamps using broken pieces of my pots.

Willow Tree Pottery was started as a means of physical and emotional therapy after a near-fatal car accident that left me with devastating orthopedic injuries, multiple internal trauma, closed head injury and the loss of my unborn son. We planted a willow tree as a memorial to our son and as I mark each piece of pottery with a willow tree as a symbol of love, I feel my son's spirit lives on.

Willow Tree Pottery is open Saturdays, 10 - 4, May thru Dec. or anytime by appointment 706-201-7065
2865 Hwy 145
Carnesville, GA 30521
email: willowtree66@hotmail.com

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