"I grew up in the 60s when all home decor consisted of taupe, beige and tan. I suppose that must be why I'm so hungry for color," Jan Pugh, ceramic artist and owner of Packer Creek Pottery, declared.
The retreat she shares with her husband in a renovated, former one-room schoolhouse in Graytown, Ohio bears this out. From the moment you step into the entry, you know that you're going to have fun. This same sense of fun and lightness of spirit also infuses her pottery.
"I met clay when I was 14 years old," Jan says. "My mother told me, 'You were also so self-entertained.'
"When I started doing clay in the 70s, everything was beige. Later in art school at the Rochester Institute of Technology, I did chemical studies -- hours of experiments on how to make different colors. I then divorced brown clay and happily married color. This is the 21st anniversary of my love affair with color."
This exuberance for color is manifest in her countryside refuge. Her signature pottery sits next to "finds" of art glass and whimsical wall art. Everywhere you look her signature Packer Creek Pottery creations are nestled in with other fanciful articles.
Yellows and blues converge with pinks and oranges. As Jan says, "It's always summer fun here all year round. No matter how dreary it may be outside, there's always sunshine and light in here."
Her home is a tribute to what an artist's eye can do to transform space and objects into creations of beauty, which is what Jan does every day, changing lumps of clay into individual masterpieces of function and form.
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