Les Powell / Smoking Turtle Studios

Ceramics

828.216.1037
www.smokingturtlestudio.com
By appointment

Odyssey Center

I am for the most part a self-taught artist, this gives me a certain leeway in the way I create. With no pre-conceived rules to follow I'm free to decide, within the parameters of the material, the form that my pottery will take. I find a lot of my influences in the patterns of nature, the art of the American Southwest, and the carvings of the Northwest Tribes. Above all... it is the power in the smoke and fire that truly creates my work.