Hi! I'm Olivia, the artist behind OCTceramics. I love to make things and I live in Houston, TX with my husband and two small kids.​ I make small batches of functional ceramics with a modern, clean aesthetic and simple designs meant to delight and to brighten any space. 

As an architect by training, I sought out the pottery wheel as an escape from straight lines. In clay I found a welcome retreat into the organic, rounded forms that emerge from a lump of mud. I fell in love with the process of creating ceramics because of the humility it demands and the connection it creates to the earth and the hands that form it. I am forever fascinated by the shapes a piece can create as it is dipped into liquid and records its intersection with the liquid plane, and I am continuously in search of how a form can create its own decoration.

I work from my personal studio in a renovated 1920s grocery store in Historic Houston Heights, and spend some time each week as a Clay Educator for the fabulous community of potters at HTX Clay. You can find me at local Houston craft markets a few times a year, or get in touch any time via email or Instagram or the website form below.