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Farmington potter's travels lead back to her love of clay

Isabell Daniel has traversed a long and winding road to create pottery in her "tree house" studio in Farmington.

The Atlanta native, who has lived in Oconee County for more than a dozen years, has spent time in North Carolina, Indiana, the San Francisco Bay area, Texas, New York, South Carolina and Japan (among other stops) perfecting her craft, and she dabbled in a host of artistic media (including painting, sculpture, weaving woodworking and large-scale installations) before settling on the ceramic arts.

Part of the reason Daniel is enamored with pottery is she appreciates the support artisans receive among their fellow potters.

"Potters are such nice people," she said. "I've been to a number of conferences and everybody is so encouraging and supportive. I've got friends in the printmaking community, and they tell me it's very competitive and cut-throat. The ceramics world doesn't seem that way at all.

"When I've attended conferences, I'm reminded how nice potters are. That's something that keeps me in it - I really like potters."

A former adjunct instructor at the University of Georgia (where she received a master's degree) and Piedmont College and a former art teacher at Monsignor Donovan High School, Daniel specializes in functional pottery, much of which is created by a combination of throwing and hand-building.

"I like to take basic shapes, cut them up and combine them," she said. "It's not as strange as it sounds. The forms I use are pretty simple and I like to work in light-colored clay and, sometimes, porcelain. I also like to use color, which kind of distinguishes me from a lot of the artists out here. I like to use a brush to apply decorations."

Daniel is heavily influenced by the time she spent in Japan, first as an ESOL instructor and then finally as a UGA Study Abroad coordinator for a Maymester course on ceramics. She also apprenticed under a Japanese painter and artist at Earlham College in Indiana.

"Being able to go to Japan was the fulfillment of a dream I'd had my whole life," she said. "But when I was there teaching for two years, I didn't do a lot of art. I worked in the school's studio every now and then, but I wasn't consistent. ... And then I had a Maymester program with UGA for five years, taking students to Japan. Shiguraki is a well-known pottery town - I saw so much pottery there that it made me wa



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