Big (belated) announcement: we sold our home and my studio in Virginia and made the move to Carrboro. Our new home brings us close to our daughters and grandchildren but offers only a tiny back room for throwing pots. In 2024 I look forward to building a new studio addition and being able to take new orders again. Photos of the studio build coming in the next few months! 

My work will be on display for the month of November at Eno Mill Gallery in Orange County, part of the NC Clayworks Potters Guild Exhibition. The companion exhibit on the walls will be the “7th Annual Paint It Orange Plein Air Paint-Out and Wet Paint Sale”– a wonderful collection of Orange County scenes.

Elizabeth Krome & Katherine Maloney

Mark your calendars for December 11!

I am having an Open House at my studio, and Katherine Maloney is having one at hers, and we are only 28 minutes apart. My studio at Quail Run Pottery and hers at Dayspring Farm will both be open from 10 to 5. At my studio you’ll find the stoneware and porcelain I love making for everyday use in your home, and for special occasions. At Katie’s you’ll see her sensitive and realistic animal sculptures, many gracing functional objects. We hope you will come see both of us!

Elizabeth Krome
Quail Run Pottery
2401 Forge Road
Toano VA 23168
804-642-6801

Katherine Maloney
Dayspring Farm
942 Buena Vista Road
Cologne VA 23181
804-246-9948

And just to put the icing on the cake, my studio-mate from Sarah Creek Potters, Martha Hayes, is having an Open House the same day! Her studio in Hallieford is a little farther away but absolutely worth the drive. Check out her link here–
http://www.summerhazepottery.com/shows-and-classes.html

Hope to see you on the 11th!

November 14-15, 2020

It’s Tour time again, and it’s happening! Virtually, this year. There are 35 of us participating in the Tour —

https://www.artisanstudiotour.com/home-1

— with lots of demonstrations throughout both Saturday and Sunday. My own demonstration will be at noon on Saturday.

Check out my online store –it’s full of work. Prices include shipping. For this event, if you are able to pick up at my studio in Toano, I’m offering a 10% discount.

After a long season of applying to shows, being accepted, and then having them cancelled, I’ve entered a new phase. An Occasion for the Arts, scheduled for October 3-4 in Williamsburg, is going to happen — online. My online store is not fancy, but it’s here (over there on the right, at the bottom of the sidebar). And on Saturday I’ll be in my studio — and from noon to 1:30 I’ll be hosting a Zoom call. I’ll welcome you to the studio, show you pots that aren’t in my online store, take you out to my kiln, and, if time permits, throw a few demonstration pots on the wheel. I’ll be playing it by ear. So expect a glitch or too. But I hope you’ll come to Occasion and that we can enjoy a little Zoom time together.

My workdays in the studio are always mostly solitary, which I love, but I do look forward to the times I see people — doing shows, teaching classes. It’s been a strange spring without these social gatherings. It reminds me how much I enjoy talking with people about my pots: how I make them, why I make them, how they use them. I trust we’ll one day return to gathering in these ways, although the current trend toward re-opening without enough testing makes me think it will not be this summer, not even this fall. I’ve appplied to my usual shows, but I will be surprised (very happily) if they actually take place.

So I look forward to seeing you again as soon as we safely do it, and in the meantime I wish you health, friends to keep in touch with, and a tall pile of good books.

The event you’ve waited years for! (Well, only two years, but still….)

The SCP Seconds Sale! Saturday February 29 at Edge Hill House in Gloucester– Martha, Marshall, and I will have all the pots that came out almost perfect in the last two years, on the lawn from 10 to 3.

Rain or shine! Cold or very cold! Put on your arctic wear and come get some flawed beauty! At the bargain prices you remember from all our past sales.

Quail Run Pottery is owned by artist Elizabeth Krome. It is located in Toano, Virginia. To visit or for more information, please contact us at 757-566-1990.