From the time she was a little girl, Mathilda has been in love with the creative process. Starting with Play Doh and Crayola Crayons she found brought her joy and happiness!

Despite being told often and sternly that art was not a “real career”, she would not be derailed from her dreams and her soul’s calling. At 17 she was offered a job as Artist in Residence at Chilmark Pottery. Much like an old fashioned apprenticeship, Geoffrey Borr took her under his wing and taught her how to make a living from her art. Thier collaborative pottery won several first place prizes in the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Fair!

After graduating high school and winning Golden Key Awards for both the Boston Globe Scholastic Arts and for hermultimedia portfolio, she was granted the Chancellor’s Talent Award by theUniversity of Massachusetts at Amherst, a full tuition scholarship for the FineArts Department.

After spending a few wild and weird years in New York City, she earned her Master’s in Education graduate degree and taught art and science at Harry Truman public high school. Tired of the city bustle and northern winters, she headed south to beautiful and peaceful Asheville where she now abides in a whimsical cabin in the woods near the Black Mountain/Old Fort line. She is enjoying teaching her skills to students at all levels at Arrowhead Gallery in Old Fort and The Black Mountain Center for the arts in Black Mountian NC.

Mathilda’s work invites you to step into her magical whimsical worlds, populated with critters real and imagined and everything between!

Her Gallery, Morning Sky Pottery is open weekends May through January and she has a Facebook Business page, Firefly Arts by Mathilda Potter.