PotteryDeborah Secombe

Deborah became addicted to clay when she was 18 in community college. She became mesmerized watching the process of clay being manipulated on the potters wheel. She’s been chasing the experience throughout her life.

Deborah is a retired social service worker, and since 2019 she has been participating in a private studio. Being able to create consistently has allowed her to improve her skills and learn new techniques.

She is inspired by nature and tries to incorporate it in her designs. She works with porcelain and stoneware clay that is dishwasher and microwave safe. The name of her business is a nod to her mother. She moved to the USA in 1955 when she married Deborah’s dad after he was discharged from the Navy. Deborah’s great grandfather was a potter in Japan. Although she never knew him, she hopes that she has some of his DNA coming through her pottery.

The name Wabi-sabi is taken from the Japanese words wabi, which translates to less is more, and sabi, which means attentive melancholy, wabi-sabi refers to an awareness of the transient nature of earthly things and a corresponding pleasure in the things that bear the mark of this impermanence.