Linda Brown is located in Bozeman, Montana and has been a potter since 2019. Linda creates functional stoneware pieces utilizing bright colors and whimsical designs. She also enjoys creating pieces that bring merriment or curiosity to everyday life. Her influences are clean, modern lines and nature, particularly botany.
Made in Montana
FROM THE ARTIST
Linda Brown Pottery is located in Bozeman, Montana. Linda has been working with clay since 2019 and it was not until 2024, she felt comfortable calling herself a potter. She creates functional stoneware and porcelain pieces that are either thrown on the wheel or hand built using mid-fire clays that range from porcelains to B-mix to dark coffee-colored clays. She prefers to use bright celadon glazes or intriguing glaze combinations and is beginning to experiment with staining clay. Her intent is to create pieces that are both functional and interesting to look at. She is influenced by nature, particularly plants and animals, which are seen in many of her pieces. While selling her pottery over the past year and a half, Linda has enjoyed meeting people and seeing people smile when they browse her colorful pieces.
Linda’s journey in pottery was not planned but evolved due to several circumstances. The first was a lifelong desire to take a pottery class and make something on a pottery wheel. Thanks to the Emerson classes she did this for the first time the year her last child was finishing high school, and she knew being an empty nester was quickly approaching. She took classes at The Emerson until Covid shut everything down, the second circumstance. She was itching to continue practicing throwing and wanted to buy a used wheel, when the third circumstance happened. She found a lady selling everything in her studio from a kiln, a wheel and everything down to a bowl of sponges. What an unexpected find this was. What she later learned was that if you have your own kiln, you can accumulate a lot of pottery. After giving away pieces to everyone she knew she decided to sell them at a small art show in Three Forks, Montana. That was a year and a half ago and hopefully the future will hold more pottery, smiles and joy in the journey.