Meet the Artist
Sharon Greenwood
Ceramics
Sharon Greenwood is a ceramic artist living in Portland, Oregon. She grew up outside of New Orleans and received her BFA from the University of Southern Mississippi in graphic design, with a minor in sculpture. This is where she first learned to love clay, spending countless hours in the ceramics studio. After 15 years in advertising, she took a sabbatical and enrolled in a local clay class. After her first class, she loved it so much that she decided to retire and start her second career as a potter. For 15 years, Sharon has been working out of her home studio, creating wheel thrown porcelain home decor and tableware. She has participated in many regional art festivals prior to the pandemic, most notably Art in the Pearl, Bellevue Art Museum, Edmonds Art Festival and Sun Valley Art Festival. Her love of the Oregon coast, her garden and the creatures that visit them inspires her creations.
Materials and technique: Each piece of pottery is thrown on a wheel then altered, trimmed and carved with a unique, organic pattern. Natural elements are sculpted from a porcelain paper clay and attached to the piece. All work is fired to cone 5 with a white, satin matte glaze on the outside and a celadon on the inside. Sculptural elements are decorated with a variety of techniques - glaze, underglaze, iron oxide stain and/or acrylic ink.