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Pam and Ren Parziale on their front stoop in their early years of making pottery

PAM & REN PARZIALE

Clay has been the stuff of our livelihood. Since 1971, we have been making pots together at our Leetown Studio on Owls Nest Lane.
Much has happened, life has changed. Our dear Ren died this past March 2, 2024. This becomes a time of transition and challenges. We know from our life experience, to be a potter one has to be an optimist.
Stay in touch, be well, and thank you for the years of friendship and support.
Thank you,
Pam
ough Mothers Day, May

BEAUTY MEETS FUNCTIONALITY

Sycamore Pottery offers durable household and kitchen wares featuring unique artistic flares with each completed work. Using a variety of historic techniques to craft both decorative and functional, Sycamore Pottery has kept regional pottery traditions alive.

Our process

A Sycamore Pottery large pitcher, detailed with an intricate glaze and wicker handle

One of Sycamore Pottery's kilns firing, being brought up to temperature by Ren

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PAM & REN

We have traveled for many years to Italy and Sicily, meeting potters and ceramic artists. They have been such an inspiration. The Italian pottery tradition is so different from our own. Cardinal reds, brilliant blues, and lemon yellows are colorful reminders of a Mediterranean tradition of pot making going back centuries. Over 50 years of making pots together, Ren and I still find it amazing, challenging, and exhilarating. The varied shapes, bowls with fluted lips, glazes that pop! Our pots are a festive connection between our American and European heritage.

~Pam

Pam Parziale in the process of throwing one of Sycamore Pottery's more popular terra cotta bowl designs

Ren Parziale enjoying the moment while using stoneware clay to throw a new piece of Sycamore Pottery

I love firing a kiln! It can take 20 hours or more for the Big Kiln to reach temperature, about 2300 degrees Fahrenheit. This is a time for paying close attention to the weather, the gauges, checking the cones inside the kiln that tell me the internal temperature. It is a time to make soup, a huge pot of Italian pasta fagioli! This has been a tradition for years, and I bake bread in a small oven I built into the flue.

~Ren

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