07/20/2025
Hey! It’s me! The woman and potter behind 🤍🌾
Just showing my face and offering my gratitude for a beautiful first two and a half months of making and selling pottery, poetry, lavender satchels, jewelry, paintings, and block prints at my gallery in Blowing Rock. I never could have imagined the synchronicities that would occur here in this space when I took the leap of faith into running a brick and mortar shop and studio. It’s been a dream of mine since I was a very little girl to make and sell art in community. I have never once doubted that I was an artist, it was the thing I wrote about “wanting to be when I grew up” since before I could write (my big sister wrote it for me in my earliest journal, circa 1994). I did have doubts however about the plausibility of making a living doing so. Like many of us, I was filled with waves of fears by what my partner refers to as “the crows” (the haters, doubters, fearful ones) throughout my life. From teachers to extended family members, landlords to bosses, boyfriends to buddies to acquaintances- there has been no shortage of discouragement about the “realities” of life as a career artist. But in equal or greater measure, every single time I simply “go all in”- or, as Emerson said, “move confidently in the direction of my dreams”- I am met with an outpouring of inspiration, hope, cheerleading, support, belief in me.
And without that belief from all of you, the crows may have eaten me alive from the inside out, as they do. Fortunately I am lucky enough to fly amongst the hawks, uplift the crows, and make art every damn day I have the privilege of flight on this earth.
Thanks.
Easy does it (but do it!),
Katy Lane
