About Piedmont Pottery

Piedmont Pottery was incorporated in North Carolina in 2009. Prior to that we operated under the name Eclectikos for many years, but found that people had difficulty remembering the name as well as spelling it, prompting the creation of Piedmont Pottery. We constructed a two story barn on our property in the woods of Wake County, where we produced our work for many years. In May of 2019 we opened our new gallery and studio to the public at our new location in downtown Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina.

About the Artists

Lisa and Jeff Ross are the artists behind Piedmont Pottery. They have been making pottery together since the mid 1970s.

Lisa Ross

Lisa began taking basic and then advanced pottery classes at two Texas colleges in the Dallas area in the late 1970s. After acquiring basic skills, including clay and glaze formulation, she developed an interest in slab techniques, focusing primarily on sculptural pottery and raku. During that time, she began to show and sell her work. After moving to North Carolina in the mid-1980s, Lisa continued taking classes, first at Central Carolina Community College in Sanford and then at Jordan Arts Center in Cary. While Lisa has extensive wheelwork experience, she prefers handbuilding with slabs or extruded forms as well as creating wearable art by combining clay accents with metal, glass, crystal, leather, or hemp. Natural and fantasy forms are common themes in her work, and she also draws upon Celtic, Greek, Egyptian and Roman mythologies to design or decorate her pieces.

Jeff Ross

Jeff first began studying pottery in the mid 1970s with Dan Hammett at the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas. There he studied clay and glaze formulation, as well as basic and intermediate pottery techniques. In the intervening years, he has continued his interest and involvement in pottery, taking classes at Central Carolina Community College in Sanford and Siler City, as well as at Jordan Hall Arts Center in Cary. While he has a strong interest in wheel work, Jeff also produces hand-built forms. Much of his work is influenced by the pottery of ancient cultures and forms from nature, as well as the folk pottery traditions of central North Carolina.