About Linda Frahm, Clay Artist

I have experimented with silversmithing, fiber arts, rock carving, glass blowing, and more, but it was a hand building with clay class at Montserrat College in Beverly, Massachusetts, that got me focused on clay. Working with mostly white stoneware, I make whimsical vases, bowls, nightlights, mermaid sculptures and jewelry, but one of my favorite items is my sheep rattle. These rattles were created after a dream I had about a white sheep — a dream that left me with a sense of overwhelming peace and comfort.

When my hands aren’t wrapped around a ball of clay, I’m writing or editing. I have worked in publishing for more than 25 years in either a part-time or a full-time capacity for such magazines as Martha Stewart’s Body + Soul, Glamour, Boston Magazine’s Home & Garden, The Atlantic Monthly, Cook’s Illustrated, Cook’s Country, and many others. I was Walking magazine’s managing editor and travel editor for 15 years, which afforded me the luxury of walking and hiking in a multitude of destinations around the world, including Australia’s Outback, the Galapagos Islands, Canadian Rockies, and Europe, as well as exploring many of our own natural wonders here in the United States. These days, I enjoy spending time with the Boston Mineral Club, collecting minerals and fossils from old mining localities in New England, as well as on excursions to the South and Southwest.

My adventures remain a source of inspiration for my art, but as beautiful as all of these places are to visit, it’s the coastal towns of New England, which I call home. I currently live and work from a 19th century house in historic Salem, Massachusetts, with the smell of salt air blowing through my windows and a puppy named Alex at my feet. And when I’m not at home, I can be found at the North Shore Clay Studio in the old Lydia Pinkham factory in Lynn, where I am an artist in residence.

I sell my work in gift shops and online, and my sheep rattles have found homes as far away as London and Paris.

Photography by: Kim Hincman
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