She Smashed Her Plates And Stared A New Life | Christine Sutton | Episode 871
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Christine was born and raised in Montana, growing up in a rural area, fairly feral, with lots of pets. From a young age Christine would obsessively draw flowers and horses (foreshadowing). Christine attended the university of Montana, earning a BFA in painting and printmaking, and almost didn't finish due to getting hired on as a cook in elk hunting camp. After college Christine became a horse packing guide, and got to explore the magical lands that make up The Greater Yellowstone ecosystem, having many adventures involving horses, mules, bears, wolves, elk , etc. It wasn't until later, when Christine had her first child that she returned to art, painting mostly images of birds, which inspired her business name, Little Bird Painting. Around 2016 a good friend of hers got a kiln, and Christine started teaching herself how to make pinch pots and throw. She was immediately obsessed, fell in love with scraffito, and has not stopped making pottery since. Christine's pottery is folk art inspired and tells the stories of the animals and adventures from her life.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:01.9 | A podcast home for Potters Everywhere. |
| 0:05.4 | It's a community of Potters dedicated to grow their business. |
| 0:08.8 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.2 | Well, salutations and welcome to episode number 871 of the Potter's cast. Welcome to the show. We've got a very cool |
| 0:27.0 | guest coming on the show today. Her name is Christine Sutton. And what I love about Christine, |
| 0:34.2 | first off, she's a Montana maker. but what I love about her is this incredible |
| 0:38.4 | story she shares, and she talks about how she smashed her plates and started a new life. And I think |
| 0:49.8 | it's absolutely amazing, because she went through some trauma. She went through some trauma. then when she came out the other side like as part of her rehabilitation or getting her life back together again yeah she did exactly that she smashed her plates and then started over again well listen I'm going to just jump into this episode that I had with Christine Sutton, |
| 1:11.2 | and then you get to hear her old story. |
| 1:13.9 | But first, we're going to get a quick word from our sponsor. |
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| 1:47.9 | Christine Sutton, welcome to the Potter's cast. |
| 1:51.5 | Hi, thank you so much. |
| 1:52.9 | I am so stoked to be talking to you. |
| 1:55.0 | What part of this planet do you live on? |
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