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1943 Born Lookout Mountain, Georgia
2011 Died New Salem, Georgia
EDUCATION
1964 Government Training Program in Pottery, Rising Fawn Pottery, Rising Fawn, Georgia
PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE
1964-1969 Production Potter, Rising Fawn Pottery, Rising Fawn, Georgia
1969-1971 Production Potter, Savannah, Georgia
1971-2011 Sole Proprietor, Principal Potter, The Legatha Shop, Rising Fawn, Georgia
Legatha Joan Walston is known for wheel thrown stoneware functional pottery. Vessels are developed on the potter's wheel. Signature forms include covered jars, among a variety of other utilitarian objects.
The exterior of taller pieces were worked in the leather hard stage. This decorative technique was seen most often in covered jars and feature fluid geometric carvings separated using horizontal lines. Walston's glazing palette is most often muted; featuring a variety of satin-matte to gloss earth tones, purples, and whites. Iron spotting is present in many of her glazes, due to the reduction firing process of iron-rich stoneware clay.
Walston studied with Charles Counts.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Southern Highland Craft Guild, Asheville, North Carolina
Artist's Studio: The Legatha Shop, Rising Fawn Pottery
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Citation: Kuratnick, Jeff. "The Marks Project." Last modified March 29, 2022. http://www.themarksproject.org:443/marks/walston