Hand-made in central North Carolina, Falcon Lane Pottery is functional stoneware designed to add delight and grace to ordinary rituals of the home or office.  My pots are high-fire oxidation work although I have worked with gas and wood firing.  Working primarily on the wheel, I enjoy forms that can be altered or thrown in parts and constructed as well as one-piece forms.  Faceting, layered glazes and some slab work are all part of Falcon Lane Pottery.

Texture that invites touch, colors that engage the eyes, a sense of the substantial, forms that offer both balance and movement all combine to encourage moments of slow time in a fast world. This is what I hope people receive from my work.

After studying for four years at Cane Creek Pottery, Chapel Hill, NC, I continued my ceramic study at Arrrowmont School for Art and Crafts in Tennessee in classes with Lana Wilson, Nick Joerling, Peter Pinnell, Linda Christianson, Suze Lindsay, Peter Beasecker and Jeff Oestrich.  A member of Carolina Clay Guild, the American Craft Council and a founding member of Alamance Artisans, I teach at Stone’s Throw Pottery, Burlington, NC, the Alamance County Arts Council and the Graham Presbyterian Playschool. See also HomegrownHandmade.com.

Falcon Lane Pottery has been exhibited at the Duke Eye Center, Alamance County Arts Council, The Center for Creative Leadership and other invitational sales. 

Susan Kern