Natalie Gillihan

Natalie Gillihan lives on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Massachusetts. Originally from Indiana, she received a B.A. in Ceramics from Ball State University in Muncie,Indiana. It was as an undergraduate that she began keeping a visual file of favorite images, including line drawings from ancient folk cultures. It took several years for these ideas and images to find their way into the artist’s work. Natalie now creates handmade ceramic pendants with designs inspired by the arts of different cultures throughout the world, adapting the images to fit her vision. These images focus on birds and other animals, the human figure, and mythological stories. Each limited edition piece was designed and created exclusively by Natalie Gillihan, and bears the artist’s signature stamp and the LQP chop mark on the back. A small story card accompanies each piece as well, to give the charm’s new owner a sense of the history and meaning contained in that small and unique piece of wearable art.