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About The Artist…
David Norton is a
self-taught, full-time potter from Round Hill, Virginia,
making functional stoneware pottery and ceramic sculpture
for over 30 years. He has had his own handmade pottery
gallery in the Torpedo Factory Arts Center in Alexandria,
Virginia, for most of that time. David has work in
collections in over 65 countries. He has exhibited and
taught at the Smithsonian's Renwick Museum, and given
extensive workshops in Venezuela, Poland, and in the
Washington, DC area.
His work has twice received acclaim by The New York Times,
as well as being voted the best local artist by readers of
the Loudoun Times Mirror. Norton keeps in touch with
aspiring young artists by volunteering each year to give
pottery workshops for some of the many art teachers he has
come to know in the county |