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| When asked how he became a potter,
Moore County's Vernon Owens says simply that he was "born
into a pottery family." His father, M. L.
Owens, and grandfather, J. H. Owens, were potters, and
he remembers working as a boy in the shop of his father,
M.L. Owens, as well as frequently visiting his uncle Walter,
a potter at North State Pottery. |
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"I was hanging out in
the shop with my daddy when I was four years old,"
he says. "It's kind of
like somebody growing up on a farm; you know, you had
the chores and you had to do the pottery." By
the time he was ten years old, he was making pottery that
his father could sell. "As
I got older, I just stayed with it."
Influenced by both the Moore County tradition of making
utilitarian-ware and the art pottery movement with its
Asian influences, Vernon Owens plays an important part
in this region’s long-standing pottery tradition. |
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