Lynn Trott

Artist Statement Capture a tree and put it on your desk. Take hold of a dancing flame and put a flower in it. My pottery explores my connections with the natural world, which take me to places inside myself where words cannot follow. The pots look like they are growing out of the earth, and just about to dance. I am fascinated by shapes, textures, and colors in flowers, plants, flame, and stone; using tools and making things with my hands gives me great pleasure. Clay is the ideal medium to express that wonder and joy. The clay responding to me and me responding to the clay, ideas making me find tools and tools giving me ideas — it all forms a constant dance as the character of the clay changes with each stage of the process. Bio Lynn Trott has been a ceramic artist since 2002, when she decided to apply her 25 years of stringed instrument making and woodcarving experience to a new medium. The journey began with eight months of lessons with local artist Kyra Cook, “just to try a new medium.” Soon she was hooked, and continued to read everything she could about clay techniques while practicing and experimenting with clay, glaze making, and kiln firing. More recently she studied ceramics with Mike Jabbur, Associate Professor of Art at the College of William and Mary, where she is currently earning her BA degree in Studio Art. Lynn has performed music in the taverns and concert halls of historic Williamsburg for over thirty years, been a member of the Runaway String Band since 1999, and for several years performed with the civil war era band Southern Horizon. For 14 years she was a Master Gardener volunteer with the James City County Extension Service. Other favorite activities include maintaining a large vegetable and flower garden, walking in the woods, and reading. She maintains her studio near her home in Toano, Virginia.