David Cole Pottery

I've always wanted to be an artist since the age of five, when my Aunt Jean inspired me with her drawings and paintings. I've since taken every opportunity to pursue my love for art as I grew older. As my dads job took our family from North Carolina to Pennsylvania in1975, I was immersed into a school system that still taught woodworking, metal smithing, hand-setting metal type, and the use old printing presses.

I made my own note pads complete with glued bindings, I was taught the silkscreening process of hand-cutting the image onto layered film, and stretching the silk onto wooden frames. I was encouraged to make T-shirts for my friends, how awesome was that? I took architecture and mechanical drawing classes, and attempted simple bowls on the potter's wheel!