ABOUT BARBARA WESSON


“I work with clay...
elements derived from the earth...
forms created through rhythm
and motion.

Like the process that completes
my work...

it fires me up...
keeps my inner fire burning and sets my soul free.”
------------------Barbara Wesson


Looking at Barbara Wesson's pottery one might not realize the expertise she brings to her artform from other areas. She has studied Zoology and Botany, is an avid succulent specimen collector, an award winning landscape designer using xeriscaping techniques, and has designed zoo exhibits integrating native plants of the Southwest United States.

She knows her plant environments and now she has taken all this knowledge and created the perfect succulent habitat in a pot. High in the Sierra Nevada Mountains Barbara uses a special technique to fire her beautiful pots to retain just the right balance of elements to make your plants thrive.

There is a lot of care and expertise in the beauty of Barbara Wesson's pottery.

Barbara Wesson, a maestro at mixing earth tone colors and clay formations that bring her pottery to life
to ignite the senses.

----------Becky Bell, editor
Tahoe Arts and
Mountain Culture.