Penny Sharp Sky

Mud, mud, mud. Lifeline? Obsession? My dance with clay began at a place called "Mudflat" in 1971, but it was in 1988, shortly after we had arrived on Orcas Island to put down roots, that a serendipitous meeting with Syd Exton, owner of the Orcas Island Pottery, offered me a chance to "come and pick up some clay and make a few pinch pots."

And the rest, as they say, is history, I found a home at Orcas Island Pottery-- a beautiful place that nurtures my creative spirit and offers me wonderful friends-in-the-mud to be inspired and encouraged by. I will be forever grateful to Syd for this opportunity to unfold..

My work is hand built, using pinching, coiling and slab construction to create works which I hope connect us to the long history of that creativeimpulse which is what being human is all about.

l offer you what my heart and hands have made...