I’ve been covered in clay since before I could walk.
As a kid, I spent most of my summers with my aunt, Sarah Howe a potter in Durham. At her pottery camps, she showed me the beauty and possibly of this diverse material. Those years gave me a love for ceramics that stuck.
At the age of 14, I met a local potter, Mark Hewitt, while at his studio tour/kiln opening in Pittsboro, NC, and asked about his apprenticeship program. In April of 2016, at age 17, I started my apprenticeship that lasted till December of 2020
In January 2021, I built my first woodkiln. I didnt have the money to buy brick, but I had an optimistic attitude and the idea of making brick sounded fun. With loads of help from friends and family, we mixed about 10 tons of clay and sand, chucked it into wooden molds to make brick and then built a 20 foot long, wonky beaut of a kiln.
For the last several years I've been pushing the scale of my work as well as playing around with various firing styles, trying to explore what surface I want to see on my work. More recently though, my partner Hannah Cupp and I have been balancing work in our studio with building our future one in Seagrove, NC.
Stillman Browning-Howe, the barefoot potter
