Carey Shanahan

Carey Ceramics

Earthbound Designs Pottery Studio

Carey started playing with clay at the age of nine but did not get serious with the material until she studied Ceramics in college. She loves Clay as a medium because the emotion, concept and idea that can be captured. “ I want my buyers to cherish the peace, have it touch their soul, pleasure their eye and feel good in their hands.“ Carey is the owner of Earthbound Designs pottery studio in Rochester where she does all her artwork and teaches pottery classes. Carey has displayed and sold her work at numerous galleries across the nation and sells her work worldwide.

Sgraffito  (in Italian) “ to scratch“ is a decorating pottery technique produced by applying layers of color or colors (underglazes or colored slips) to leather hard pottery and then scratching off parts of the layers to create contrasting images, patterns and texture to reveal the clay underneath.