Home About Barbara Higgins Barbara's functional stoneware and porcelain pots are wheel-thrown and handbuilt. Many pieces show her interest in texture and stamps of ancient symbols, which add depth and movement to the design. Her imagery is from the natural world - streams, dragonflies, cranes, turtles, and leaves. Love of this natural world is a recurring theme. Stoneware pieces are glazed with a saturated iron glaze or cobalt glaze over a stoneware body, and are fired in oxidation to approximately 2180 degrees Fahrenheit. Porcelain pieces are glazed with chun glazes in a soft palette. Her combination of patterns and symbols combine the contemporary with the ancient in a classical way. Barbara trained at Penland School of Crafts in western North Carolina, and has been teaching ceramics in the Chapel Hill area since 1989. She is the developer and manager of The Clay Centre, a small school for pottery in Carrboro NC, which opened in June, 2002. Click here for the Clay Centre Gallery website Bluebird plate Blue bud vase Blue ginkgo pot 1 Blue platter Indigo blue sushi set 2 Oval sunflower platter 2 Overlap blue ginkgo dish Small blue dish 2 Sunflower dish 1 Gray crane plate Stoneware Tea Set Gold Crane Tumbler Gold Bamboo Vase Hummingbird platter Turtle tea bowl Folded vase Home  ·   About The Clay Centre Gallery · 402 Lloyd St. · Carrboro, NC 27510 · (919) 967-0314