Chris Williams

Chris Williams

Chris likes to play in clay, especially loving raku and anything having to do with fire that let’s out the inner ‘pyromaniac’.  He is also a talented photographer and cook. Chris is a great MIT entrepreneurial geek who works with start up companies, having made his first big hit in the software industry by writing, Borland’s Turbo Debugger.

Chris comes to ceramics through his wife Seyrel. Having watched her embark on her creative path with clay, he could only admire for so long before wanting to literally get his hands dirty. The linear-thinking part of his mind was attracted to the process of developing glazes, so he started mixing glazes, following a path much like when learning to cook: 1) brownie mix, 2) brownie recipe, 3) to heck with the recipe, I wonder what happens when I add pickles to the brownie recipe?

Once he ran out of space to store 5-gallon buckets of glaze, he decided to help Seyrel work her way through the many boxes of clay in the immediate vicinity. Being a linear kinda guy, he saw all those circular forms coming off the wheel and decided that slab building was more to his liking. Not just any slab forms, but slab forms with really straight edges, and really linear patterns: grids, gear tracks, anything that goes clickety-click in a line is just fine with him.

Learn more about Chris and his art by visiting the website he shares with his wife by clicking here.