After several decades as a design educator and designer, P. Lyn started working with clay. This tactility provided an intriguing contrast to graphic design, especially digital technology. Transitioning from one creative mode to the other presented an opportunity to combine her design sensibility/approach with new processes and materials. Handmade, one-of-a-kind, functional pottery was her main focus for many years. She made and sold at pop-ups, stores, private sales and at her own gallery in Ojai. During this time, John Legend and Chrissy 

Tiegen have commissioned many pieces.

 

P.Lyn received a BA in Sociology and Art, Meredith College and an MA in Visual Design at North Carolina State University School of Design. Post-graduate, she studied in Switzerland at Yale–Brissago Workshop and received a fellowship to study at Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel for a year. As a full-time design educator, P. Lyn has taught at North Carolina State University School of Design, California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts), Art Center College of Design (Europe) and Art Institute of Los Angeles. As a freelance designer she did projects for Cal Arts, Warner Bros., Now Time Magazine and Thacher School. Her work has been published in many art and design periodicals.

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Featured above, from "Women Making History": White Vessel with Missing Arms, Stoneware with glaze, 12”H x 5”W