Seagrove North Carolina
One of our favorite places to visit is Seagrove North Carolina. Seagrove is more an area than a major town. There is a crossroads with a few buildings on the four corners and the North Carolina Pottery Center. There are over 100 potters in the area. Their studios are down curving, ribbon banded roads that satisfy the curious with a surprising and often intimate look into the artists life.
Wandering into the artists studio gives their pottery an added dimension. A large number of potters live and create in the same place. Our first trip to Seagrove was on a Sunday. Most of the studios were closed. But we were happy just exploring the area. The names of the studios are nailed to up on old trees or hanging from rusting posts. There are curious names like Fat Beagle Pottery, DirtWorks and Blue Hen.
I asked the artists at Fat Beagle Pottery where he got the name for his studio. He said there was an old dog that wandered the neighborhood that looked kind of like a beagle. (In truth, when he said neighborhood I had to look out the door at the three houses I could see down the lane and through the trees. I guess this was his neighborhood). You could tell the time of day it was, he said, by which stoop the old dog was planted on. That Beagle is still wandering around telling time by the porch.
Another studio we visited that day was Caldwell-Hohl Artworks. They were closed but Hohl of Caldewll-Hohl was working in his whimsy filled garden. He welcomed us and we had the opportunity to personally explore the joy that is his art. It seemed that everywhere we looked there was something wonderful to see. From a small toad house hiding in a corner of the garden to the really really (did I say REALLY) cool log house he built for his wife and himself.
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