After getting married in Florence Italy in 2000, Bill & Pam returned to Greenville, SC and built a wonderful studio together under tall trees behind their home and named it Clark House Pottery LLC. Their pottery is mostly influenced by the designs of the Mission Arts and Crafts movement of the early 1900’s. Their work is one-of-a-kind, hand thrown, sculpted, and decorated art pottery. They make work using earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain clays on the wheel and hand sculpting and then hand glaze each piece with both commercial and custom formatted glazes.

Bill has been making pottery for 55 years and apprenticed with Harding Black in San Antonio, Texas in high school. In 2003, Bill began a new path in clay when he saw a piece of pottery made by George Ohr, the “Mad Potter of Biloxi, Mississippi”. He was determined to discover the mechanical throwing methods on the potter’s wheel that made those light and unusual shapes. Bill has incorporated the method into his own design interpretations and taken it much further.

Pam has been making pottery for 35 years. She enjoys making original designs with flora and fauna using hand building, sculpting, carving, slip trail and surface texture techniques. Pam is known for her twisted clay horse sculptures. Her horse “Shasta” took her into fields and streams to explore nature, study design and dream about making beauty. Pam also enjoys experimenting with glaze recipes and altering familiar ones.

In 2011, the George Ohr family descendants formally, in writing, welcomed both Bill and Pam into their family and thanked them for continuing this type of work. This was an incredible honor! The direct descendants of George Ohr have purchased more than 250 pieces of Bill’s pottery.

Bill & Pam’s art pottery is in the following museum permanent collections: Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, American Museum of Ceramic Art in California, Dallas Museum of Art, Mississippi Museum of Art, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art in Texas, Newark Museum in New Jersey, Museum of Art and Science in Macon Georgia and in the McKissick Museum of Art, South Carolina, South Carolina State Museum and the Museum of York County.

Their work can be acquired at the Southern Highland Craft Guild Galleries, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, the Craftsman Guild of Mississippi Gallery in Ridgeland, MS, and South Carolina Artisans Center in Walterboro, SC.

They are thankful to many happy collectors for their encouragement and support of their work and the Ohr descendants that have helped propel them to numerous good milestones in their journey in clay.